Luxurious treatment at Sk Spa in Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds' SK Spa has been winning all kinds of awards over the last three years and rightly so – I thought it was high time I checked it out and was certainly not disappointed.
I'm sure most Liberte members are starting to ache a little and I thought a massage would be the best way to ease the pain of all those burpess and deltoid press ups!
From the minute you step into the former chapel it’s all about relaxation. The inside of the spa is all dark lights, moody music and the staff tread on the plump carpet in bare feet. After filling out a health questionnaire and waiting with a glass of iced lemon water and I was lead into a dimly lit room by young Tiffany.
The light in the room was taken down a notch or two and some kind of Gregorian music started pumping out as I stripped down to my pants and lay on the massage table somewhere among a load of soft towels.
I had a tension relief massage, mainly around my back and shoulders, which lasted for 30 minutes. You get to decide how much pressure you want to be applied, I opted for medium and even that involved Tiffany digging her thumbs and elbows into my back and applying plenty of lotion. Towards the end a boiling hot towel was placed on my back and man it felt good. Like the hot towels on an aeroplane, though, the heat soon went, but it didn’t half feel great.
I ended the massage half asleep and was told to get up in my own time. I could have drifted off for hours after that and walking out into the bright reception is a huge shock to the eyes, a bit like coming out of the cinema on a sunny day.
In both cases the escapism and indulgence was over and it was back to reality.

* SK Spa celebrates its third anniversary this month with a week of special offers and promotions. The spa, on Northgate Street is offering discounts for one week, from Tuesday, July 19 to Sunday, July 24.
During that week any standard treatment is 20 per cent cheaper, any homecare product gets an additional 15 per cent off and there’ll be anniversary cupcakes and a free glass of bubbly on offer too.
There are stacks of other offers including a goody bag for everyone who makes any kind of purchase, for more information call 01284 748470.