Treatments
Every treatment, its prices, and where it runs
Massage worked in the European tradition, and, at the two branches with a heated hammam room, the Moroccan Bath and the hammam package. Every card below carries the price ladder as it is printed at the branch that charges it, rather than one averaged figure.
The three branches do not sell an identical list, so the cards say plainly where each treatment runs. Al Barsha has no hammam room and works massage only. DIFC keeps a separate menu with its own names, its own appointment lengths and its own prices.
On the Table
Slow, flowing strokes with warm aromatic oils. The gentlest of our full body treatments.
Al Barsha and Bur Dubai
+5% VAT at reception
DIFCas Aromatherapy Massage
VAT included
The classic Swedish sequence: long draining strokes, steady medium pressure, whole body.
Al Barsha and Bur Dubaias Swedish Massage
+5% VAT at reception
DIFCas Classical Swedish Massage
VAT included
Firm, slow work through the deeper muscle layers. Tell your therapist where it hurts and how hard to press.
Al Barsha and Bur Dubai
+5% VAT at reception
DIFCas Deep Tissue Massage
VAT included
Smooth heated stones rested on the body and worked over it, so warmth does the loosening instead of pressure.
Bur Dubai
+5% VAT at reception
DIFC
VAT included
Warmed shells replace the therapist hands, so heat reaches tight muscle rather than sitting on the skin.
Al Barsha and Bur Dubai
+5% VAT at reception
Two therapists working in mirrored time. Twice the contact in the same hour, so book it ahead.
Al Barsha and Bur Dubaias 4 Handed Massage
+5% VAT at reception
DIFCas Dual Synergy Massage
VAT included
In the Wet Room
These need a heated hammam room rather than a treatment bed, which is why they run at Bur Dubai and DIFC and are not on the Al Barsha menu at all.
Steam, black soap and a kessa glove scrub in a real hammam room. Skin comes out smooth rather than merely clean.
Bur Dubai
+5% VAT at reception
DIFC
VAT included
The hammam scrub followed by a full body massage in a single two hour visit. Priced lower before 15:00.
Bur Dubai
+5% VAT at reception
Reading The Prices
Every figure on this page is copied from a printed branch menu. Three details decide what you actually pay, and none of them is obvious from the number alone.
VAT is not on the same basis everywhere. Al Barsha and Bur Dubai print prices before the 5% and add it at reception, so 400 AED is 420 at the till. DIFC prints the figure with VAT already inside. Each card above says which applies, because comparing the two as if they were the same number is the easiest mistake to make here.
The start time changes the price. Anything beginning from 10:00 and before 15:00 is charged at the Early Bird rate where the treatment has one. It is not a code or a voucher and there is nothing to claim: it is decided by the hour the treatment starts, not by the hour you booked it.
DIFC sells things this page does not list. That branch runs its own menu, and 6 of its treatments have no page here: Balinese Massage, Couple Massage, Back, Neck and Shoulder Massage, Moroccan Bath and Classical Swedish Massage, Moroccan Bath and Deep Tissue or Balinese Massage, Private Jacuzzi. They are printed in full, with their own durations and prices, on the DIFC branch page.
Good to Know
More than most guests realise, and it is never a code or a voucher: what triggers it is a start time from 10:00 and before 15:00, so the same treatment with the same therapist simply costs less in that window. At Al Barsha and Bur Dubai the Aromatherapy and Swedish massages run at 370 for an hour, 525 for ninety minutes and 700 for two hours. Bur Dubai also puts the Moroccan Bath on it at 300 rather than 400, and the two hour Royal Hammam package at 600 rather than 700. DIFC runs its own version: Swedish at 390 for fifty minutes, 550 for seventy five and 630 for ninety, the Moroccan Bath at 300, and the Full Body Exfoliation at 250. Every branch page prints its own Early Bird list in full.
Length and what is included, rather than two different baths. The Moroccan Bath on its own is a sixty minute appointment in the heated hammam room: the room warms and softens the skin first, black soap is left on to loosen the outer layer, and only then does the kessa glove do its work, which is why it lifts more while pressing less. The Royal Hammam package is two hours and pairs that same full bath with a full body massage afterwards, so you are not booking two separate visits or paying two separate prices. The package costs 700 at Bur Dubai, or 600 when the appointment starts before 15:00, against 400 for the bath alone. Both need a real hammam room, so neither runs at Al Barsha.
One on our shared menu and two more on the DIFC list, and it is worth separating them from a treatment that only sounds like it. The Four Hands Massage is two therapists working on one person at the same time, not a couple: it costs 800 for an hour at Al Barsha and Bur Dubai. DIFC lists the same idea as the Dual Synergy Massage at 1000 for an hour, and separately a Couple Massage at the same figures, which is the one where two of you are on two tables in the same room. If you want two people booked together at Al Barsha or Bur Dubai, message that reception directly: it needs two therapists free at the same hour, which is worth arranging a day ahead rather than the same evening.
Three on the list work deeper than the aromatherapy and Swedish massages, and they get there by different routes. The Deep Muscle Massage is the direct one: slow, firm pressure worked into the tissue rather than over it, from 600 for an hour at Al Barsha and Bur Dubai. The Hot Stone Massage warms the muscle first with heated basalt so it releases before any real pressure is applied, from 600 at Bur Dubai and DIFC. The Lava Shell Massage does something similar with warmed shells, from 600 at Al Barsha and Bur Dubai. None of these is medical treatment and none of our therapists is a physiotherapist, so if the pain is sharp, recent or the result of an injury, see a doctor before booking rather than after.
Two separate reasons that are easy to mistake for one. The first is that DIFC prints its prices with the 5% VAT already inside them, where Al Barsha and Bur Dubai add it at reception, so a figure that looks higher is not always higher once both are on the same basis. The second is that DIFC genuinely runs a different menu rather than the same one at different rates: its own treatment names, its own appointment lengths from a thirty minute back and shoulder up to two hours, and its own figures. The Dual Synergy Massage at 1000 for an hour is that branch version of the Four Hands Massage, which is 800 at the other two. Open the DIFC branch page and every number on it is what that reception charges.
Message the branch that runs it. Reception can see the day's schedule and confirm the treatment and the hour in one reply.