Wonder Rainforest Room post dry dock

[monkeybird]

I've heard it was a bit meh before the dry dock,but what about now? Has anyone tried it? What's it like? Is it worth it?

 

[cmph]

I thought it was just ok, personally. Apparently I stink at relaxing though. (or at least relaxing silently and alone!) So - the showers are nice, but really - a few minutes was enough for me. They are nowhere near as good as the ones at the Aulani spa (if you've been there or heard of them), so that was a bit of a letdown for me. I didn't find the saunas all that exciting either, esp since you can use the one in the locker room for free anyway. Warm vs dry in a hot little room doesn't matter to me, and the attendant never explained if there was an order to doing the various things - so it's possible some magical combination makes the difference. The heated lounge chairs are also nice, and I know they're the biggest draw... so I'm probably alone in that after about 10min, I felt like my skin was burning. Obviously it really wasn't! But it was uncomfortably warm directly against my skin, so I spent time fussing with covering it with towels so my calves, etc didn't touch it. I know there are issues some times with people hogging them, and that wasn't a problem on the day i was there, which was in the afternoon on Nassau day. Only one other woman was in there with me, and only part of the time. The rest of the time I was alone. Another minor irritation for me was that it seemed like no one was attending to it at all. The drinking water was out the entire time I was in there, and I went back to the locker room to check for messages from my kids and back again, so I was there awhile between that and trying everything out. After being shown how to use the band to get into the room, the only time I saw an employee again at all was at the desk when I left, or I would have brought that to someone's attention. (I didn't want to go all the way to the desk in a robe.)

FWIW, my husband had the same impression - it was fine, I guess we're glad we tried it once, but we won't pay for a day pass or a weeklong pass again on the classics.

 

[mevelandry]

I was there last saturday. I missed the jacuzzi from the Dream but other than that, I loved it so much it made me wanna book a spa day back home.

The warm chairs are nice and I liked the showers too.

 

[monkeybird]

I thought it was just ok, personally. Apparently I stink at relaxing though. (or at least relaxing silently and alone!) So - the showers are nice, but really - a few minutes was enough for me. They are nowhere near as good as the ones at the Aulani spa (if you've been there or heard of them), so that was a bit of a letdown for me. I didn't find the saunas all that exciting either, esp since you can use the one in the locker room for free anyway. Warm vs dry in a hot little room doesn't matter to me, and the attendant never explained if there was an order to doing the various things - so it's possible some magical combination makes the difference. The heated lounge chairs are also nice, and I know they're the biggest draw... so I'm probably alone in that after about 10min, I felt like my skin was burning. Obviously it really wasn't! But it was uncomfortably warm directly against my skin, so I spent time fussing with covering it with towels so my calves, etc didn't touch it. I know there are issues some times with people hogging them, and that wasn't a problem on the day i was there, which was in the afternoon on Nassau day. Only one other woman was in there with me, and only part of the time. The rest of the time I was alone. Another minor irritation for me was that it seemed like no one was attending to it at all. The drinking water was out the entire time I was in there, and I went back to the locker room to check for messages from my kids and back again, so I was there awhile between that and trying everything out. After being shown how to use the band to get into the room, the only time I saw an employee again at all was at the desk when I left, or I would have brought that to someone's attention. (I didn't want to go all the way to the desk in a robe.)

FWIW, my husband had the same impression - it was fine, I guess we're glad we tried it once, but we won't pay for a day pass or a weeklong pass again on the classics.

You sound very much like me, in that regard anyways. I think I'll skip. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[MunFam]

Unless they moved the sport court post dry dock, that was my biggest gripe about the spa...there is NOTHING relaxing about a ball bouncing on the ceiling and 20 feet thumping around...nothing at all.

As far as "ship spa" I thought it was okay. Ive been to Canyon Ranch 3 times now, so I would say I am a spoiled spa snob at this point, but the features were actually really nice for such a small area. I do agree with the poster above. No attendants any where to be found...and I wish they enforced "spa etiquette" as in tell people in there having full on conversations to shut up!

 

[monkeybird]

Unless they moved the sport court post dry dock, that was my biggest gripe about the spa...there is NOTHING relaxing about a ball bouncing on the ceiling and 20 feet thumping around...nothing at all.

As far as "ship spa" I thought it was okay. Ive been to Canyon Ranch 3 times now, so I would say I am a spoiled spa snob at this point, but the features were actually really nice for such a small area. I do agree with the poster above. No attendants any where to be found...and I wish they enforced "spa etiquette" as in tell people in there having full on conversations to shut up!

Yikes on the bouncing balls!