Pure Relaxation: Korealand pt4

In the upper-right corner you can see the word "Spaland"

In Busan there is the biggest public bathhouse in Korea. I can't go into too much detail, but public bathhouses are pretty cool places.

This one costs about $12 I think, but most cost around $8. At many you can stay as long as you like (even overnight), though this one had a 4 hour time limit. There are sort of two areas in the bathhouse: the bath area and everyplace else.

Naked Area

In the bath area everyone is naked (yeah, weird) but it is gender separated. This one was big and beautiful. It had several different hot tubs with different temperatures. They say that there are two kinds of spring water there "Sodium Bicarbonate" and "Sodium Chloride."

There were several water massage beds (hard to explain, with I had a picture to show you, but then there would be old naked men in the picture...). Then there was a "cool bath" and a "cold bath" (15C, freezing cold). I've heard that Koreans sometimes alternate between cold and hot, and I did that and it felt awesome.

In that area there were also 3 saunas. A "Korean" sauna, a "Roman" sauna (as in ancient Rome), and two Finnish saunas. The hotter of the two Norwegian ones was 80 degrees Celsius (176F)! You can see sauna culture briefly in the Gangnum Style video.

Non-Naked Area

In the rest of this place you are clothed in these special relax clothes, and in these areas it's co-ed. There are MANY more and different saunas including but not limited to:

Yellow Earth Room
Pyramid Room
Body Sound Room
Wave-Dream Room
Hard Wood Charcoal Room
Hamam Room
Bali Room
SEV Room

Body Sound Room was funny. You listen to sounds of nature or meditation music and the music sooth-fully vibrates where you are laying down.

The Wave-Dream Room is where they have a little bit of water with a light under it, so the rippling water is projected on the ceiling.

Cool stuff. Loved it.

"Entertainment Zone"

In addition to the saunas in the non-naked area, they also had some cool stuff. Including a "Relaxation Room," a restaurant, and a cafe.

In the Relaxation Room you get a nice big recliner and a tv. It's pretty dark so you could also nap in there. Cool digs.

The food as you can imagine was quite expensive. But no wallets allowed! So how do you pay? At the beginning of the experience you are issued a special electronic key for your locker that goes around your wrist. But it can also pay for things! Even vending machine food! How cool is that?

They also had an area where you could get into pods with lots of extra oxygen, an oxygen bar more or less. I would have done it, but I was running out of time.

I saw a bunch of people hanging out with friends just watching tv. I couples resting together in the nap-time area.

These places are to get away from the hustle of city life that so many people deal with. Honestly, I think we should have something like it to. If only because it is so awesome (though I doubt in the States it would have the same cheap price).