{"id":13300,"date":"2014-03-19T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=13300"},"modified":"2014-03-17T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:42:16","slug":"sense-spa-at-saratoga-springs-swedish-massage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=13300","title":{"rendered":"Senses Spa at Saratoga Springs &#8211; Swedish Massage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a compare and contrast to the Swedish Massage I had at Mandara Spa in the Dolphin Resort&#8230; In a nutshell, Senses at Saratoga Springs was nicer than Mandara and the massage was much better too.<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience started out a bit stressful (my fault entirely) &#8211; I thought my appointment was at 5:00 and it was at 5:30, so Nick and I were a bit stressed when I arrived for my appointment AND I continued to think that I was late and that Nick would be sitting at dinner waiting for me to show up AND there was no cell service in the depths of the spa.<\/p>\n<p>Senses Spa wants to connect with all of your senses, thus you begin your experience with an elixir (I chose pomegranate)&#8230; So, at first glance, why was Senses at Saratoga Springs better than Mandara?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The robes were nicer &#8211; the robes here have two layers, the inner terry cloth layer is very soft and soothing and the outer layer is a soft grey brushed satin (very nice)<\/li>\n<li>The sauna and the hot tub area in the ladies area were both operational and seemed to be very clean<\/li>\n<li>There were two private, curtained off areas for changing for your spa treatment if you wanted<\/li>\n<li>The changing area was larger<\/li>\n<li>The relaxation area (which I didn&#8217;t get to experience) isn&#8217;t like a garden (versus Mandara Spa), it&#8217;s more like a treatment room at a big spa retreat in an old movie &#8211; &#8220;beds&#8221;, low lights, carrot zucchini muffins, tea, water, apples, and reading materials<\/li>\n<li>The treatment rooms (at least the one I was in) was larger and included a hydrotherapy bath<\/li>\n<li>The treatment rooms were aligned along a hallway, it felt more professional and less touchy feely to me (and that is my preference, not necessarily everyone else&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The actual massage&#8230; Melissa started by asking some questions and a run-down of how the massage would proceed&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did I want light, moderate, or firm pressure (I chose firm)<\/li>\n<li>After I was settled on the massage bed, she put a hot moist compress on my upper back and then there&#8217;d be a bit of aromatherapy with lavender oil to relax me<\/li>\n<li>The massage started with my upper body as I lay on my belly, next was legs and feet &#8211; then I rolled over and again she progressed from upper to lower body (I really liked the head and neck massage, much appreciated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, this massage had more pressure and more limb manipulation than any that I&#8217;ve received at Disney World. I&#8217;m not sure if the difference is because I requested firm pressure or if there&#8217;s really that much difference in the massage therapists. I can say that there was a clear difference in the facilities and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how the Senses Spa at The Grand Floridian and the spa at The Waldorf Astoria compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a compare and contrast to the Swedish Massage I had at Mandara Spa in the Dolphin Resort&#8230; In a nutshell, Senses at Saratoga Springs was nicer than Mandara and the massage was much better too.<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience started out a bit stressful (my fault entirely) &#8211; I thought my <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=13300\">Senses Spa at Saratoga Springs &#8211; Swedish Massage<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[656],"tags":[215,216],"class_list":["post-13300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spa-pampering","tag-walt-disney-world-2","tag-wdw-2","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13389,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}