Marmaris Turkish Bath is a paradise for lovers of relaxation and rest. The Turkish Bath has served throughout history as not only a centre for cleansing the body, but also as a centre for socialising. With specific times or days given for women and children to partake, separately to men. Often used as a place to meet and gossip with neighbours and friends, where wives could be found for sons and husbands for daughters, as well as a place to find well being and relaxation. The traditional Turkish name is Hamam and just about every town in Turkey still has a bath house for its residents, despite modern architecture and plumbing in modern households.
Some resort hotels have converted areas of the hotel to a Hamam for touristic purposes. These Hotel hamams serve to give a taste of the original Turkish Bath House, beneath the purpose built domes, where the traditional belly stone is ready and waiting for discerning tourists to relax and partake of this wonderful experience. Of course these days you can visit the Hamam with the whole family and sessions are unisex unless otherwise requested.
Well, you’ve made it to Turkey, why not take a Turkish Bath and find out for yourself what it is that has ensured the use of these public baths for at least six centuries. With all this pampering and value for money, it is almost a foregone conclusion that your first Turkish Bath will not be your last!
HIGHLIGHTS
Enjoy the ultimate spa experience
Relax and enjoy being pampered in a traditional way
Excellent value for money
Prolong your tan and holiday glow
Price: for adults – 25 €, for children from 7 to 11 years old – 15 €, for children under 6 years old – free.
Marmaris Turkish Bath Times:
Every Day – Any Time Between 10:30 and 19:00
Transport is provided for your comfort and relaxation, to and from the Hamam building. You will be greeted at Reception and led to the changing rooms where you will receive a locker with key plus Hamam Robe.
Then follows an approximate 15 minutes in a sauna or steam room, thus opening the pores of the body and eliminating toxins through the sweat glands. This is an important part of the process leaving your pores open for the next stage.
On leaving the sauna you will transfer to the centre of the Hamam and the bellystone. Led by your masseuse you may have to wait along the marble seating while you wait your turn on the marble centred stone. There will be cold water to hand should you need to cool yourself down as you wait.
When it is your turn you will be assisted to the belly stone where the body scrub will commence. A fresh scrub mitten is used every time for this procedure and all dead skin cells are easily removed. After this invigorating body scrub the clean skin is rinsed and you are ready for the foam massage.
The foam massage is applied to your newly scrubbed body via an ordinary bar of soap and what appears to be a large pillow case. Producing a great deal of foam which is then massaged into the skin, in a cleansing and relaxing way. This is then rinsed off.
You will be taken to an area of relaxation, where you may purchase a refreshment if you wish, to await your oil massage.
When the oil masseur is ready you are taken to the massage cubicles. An aromatic oil is used to moisturise and condition your newsly scrubbed and cleansed skin. This procedure usually takes around 15 minutes.
At the end of the oil massage you are taken back to the changing rooms and your lockers, to change, before the transport arrives to return to your original point of pick up.
