Full Body Massage in Hurghada at Soul Spa Wellness Club

Massage is the thing nobody puts on the holiday plan and half the group ends up wanting by Thursday. A boat ladder, a quad bike, a mattress that is not yours, and the shoulders have quietly seized up. The treatment rooms at Soul Spa Wellness Club are inside the TK Royal, in the InterContinental district, a few minutes from most Hurghada hotels, and an hour in one of them is usually enough to sort it out.

There are eight styles and they all cost the same, so the only question is which one your week calls for. Aroma is the soft one, aromatic oil and slow hands. Anti-Stress works at medium pressure with aromatherapy oil and takes the tension out of the neck and back. Power Sport is the one to ask for after a day of quad bikes. Lymphatic moves circulation and brings down swelling, Classic Full Body is the systematic stroking and kneading you probably picture when you think of massage, Shiatsu is Japanese finger pressure with no oil at all, Medical is aimed squarely at whatever hurts, and Diver VIP concentrates on shoulders and legs that have been carrying tanks around all week.

Tell the therapist where it aches and how much pressure you want, and that is the last thing asked of you. Oil warmed, lights low, sixty minutes on the table. Women are treated by female therapists and men by male therapists, without exception, which is worth knowing in advance rather than finding out at the door. Afterwards there is herbal tea in the relaxation lounge.

The ninety-minute treatment is exactly what it sounds like: an hour and a half on the table rather than an hour, same choice of style, same therapist. The extra half hour is not something wrapped around the massage, it is more massage, which is usually what people want when an hour has turned out not to be enough. Pickup and drop-off are included both ways from any hotel in Hurghada, whichever part of the city you are staying in, so the whole thing costs you part of an afternoon and nothing else.