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Montreval Sabaia
A hammam under canvas, and a cold room at eleven degrees when the desert is at thirty.
The hammam at Sabaia is the only permanent stone structure in the camp, built into a fissure in the escarpment where the rock is already cool. It is heated by a wood furnace behind the wall, in the way the district has heated bathhouses for a very long time, and it takes four hours to bring up to temperature.
Next to it, cut deeper into the same fissure, is the cold room. There is no machinery in it. It sits at about eleven degrees year-round because it is eleven metres into rock, and on a thirty-degree afternoon it is the most extraordinary room in the collection.
What is here
Open
08:00 – 20:00 daily. Hammam heated from 14:00.
Use of the baths, saunas and pools is included in every stay. Treatments are charged.
Treatments
Four rather than nineteen. A long menu is usually a way of avoiding the harder work of knowing what to recommend.
1 h/€190
Steam, black soap, a rough glove and a great deal of water, in the order the district has always done it.
1 h 30/€235
An exfoliation using fine escarpment sand, followed by argan and date-kernel oil pressed at Adeem.
45 min/€140
Shoulders, back and hips, for guests who have spent four hours on a horse and regret it.
Elsewhere
Lake Verane, the Verane Valley
A thermal bath cut into the hillside, and a cold pool fed straight from the lake.
07:00 – 21:00 daily. Treatments from 09:00.
Motu Rea, Tamerin Atoll
Two treatment rooms over the shallows, with the floor open to the water.
09:00 – 19:00 daily.
Northern shore, Lindhavn Fjord
Two saunas, a steam room, and a hole in the deck into four hundred metres of fjord.
06:00 – 24:00 daily. Treatments 09:00 – 20:00.
Reservations
Our own team answers, not an agency. Rates fall on the fourth night and again on the seventh, which tells you what we would prefer.