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No More Creepy Couples Massages at the Kempinski Dukes Palace

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November 2, 2009 at 2:14 PM | by juliab | 1 Comment

We’ve been itching to go to the fabulous-looking Kempinksi Dukes’ Palace in a 15th-century castle in Bruges since it opened, and every time we hear some more news about it, we get closer to opening up our wallets. This time it’s the new spa menu taking our fancy.

It’s using the French Thalgo line (nice) for some pretty well-priced treatments including a Detox (scrub, detox gel, sauna and massage, €85) for after you've gone overboard on the local chocolate, and the cozy-sounding Mother’s Cocoon (massage, facial and foot treatment, €140) for the preggers among you.

Best of all, they’re making an admirable break from the creepy couple’s massage – their Harmony for Two treatment (€120) is being sold to "mothers and daughters or friends".

Although we’re not sure why you’d need any company during a body scrub, back massage and foot treatment. Body issues aside, isn’t half the point of a massage the fact that you don’t have to talk to anyone?

Anyway, nice as it sounds, and nice as the treatment rooms look (ie bigger than our living room) obviously we’re not advocating going all the way to Bruges to sit in the sauna. No. If you stay in this place, we advocate just loafing in your room all day instead. If you’ve spent a minimum of €285 ($421/£357) on it, after all, you’ve got to get some value out of it.

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  1. Stan

    HotelChatter Member

    Couples massages...

    ...aren't creepy but for the most part couples keep quiet during them {I speak both as a spa manager and as a massage therapist who's given a few dozen of them}. But chatting or not, couples always leave the room smiling at the shared experience.

    Having said that, I wouldn't get a couples massage myself. It's not bad; it's just not for me.

    November 3, 2009 at 7:08 AM

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