Spa 1877, Victoria Street, Sheffield
I spent part of bank holiday back home in Manchester visiting my parents and on Sunday I drove back for some much needed spa time with my two sisters. We headed to Spa 1877, just off West Street, for three hours of catching up and relaxation!
We paid our £25 each on arrival and headed through to collect a basket each that contained a pair of crocs, dressing gown and towel. From here it isn’t really clear what the drill is….,good job I’d been before. We headed up to get changed, whacked on the crocs and dressing gowns and left everything behind in our lockers.
The first room you come to is the relaxation room. In here, everyone lazes around in their dressing gowns, reading papers and books and generally just chilling out and chatting. Various rooms lead off where people can opt to have additional treatments.
The staff are really friendly and go round offering you hot drinks, we all opted for a hot chocolate before we went into the spa area. Three hours is plenty of time so there’s no rush to make your way into the spa area when you first arrive.
Inside the spa area you will find an aromasteam room (this room smells like berries), a steam room, a sauna, an ice cave and a plunge pool. The main hammam area is a nice temperature so if you want to just lie down and have a snooze in your dressing gown then it’s the perfect temperature.
We started of with a quick shower before heading into the aromasteam room, I love this room as it smells like berries. We stayed in there for about 10 minutes before heading into the ice cave. This is basically a cooler room where crushed ice falls out from the corner into a big bowl. You then rub this all over your skin to exfoliate and cool you down. This takes some getting used to but you need it after coming out from one of the hot rooms.
Next we headed into the steam room which is much larger then the other rooms and managed to put in a good innings before heading to the plunge pool. Being the most daring of the three of us I went first…full body I promised them. I managed to do it but was out quicker then I was in. It makes your legs go all tingly but you feel great afterwards. We then headed into the sauna for a bit and back out for a shower before putting our dressing gowns back on and heading into the relaxation area for another drink.
In addition to the hot drinks on offer, you can help yourself to water, orange juice, apple juice and fresh fruit whilst you chill out in the relaxation area. We relaxed some more before heading back into the spa area and doing it all over again….all in all we went round three times.
As I said, there is no rush to get it all done and three hours is plenty of time for you to chill out and enjoy it all. I would definitely recommend going if you haven’t before and for £25 I think it is not bad at all!
The only down side I’d say would be that it doesn’t have a swimming pool – not a complete drawback but I think this would make it a little bit more wholesome.
My sister is getting married in April so we enquired whether you can rent out the whole place for a private do and it turns out you can…looks like we may be able to build in a little relaxation time into a busy hen weekend after all!
Here is the website if you want more info:
http://www.spa1877.com/
