SPA County Part II

Where was I?????

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After the Chocolate Mill, we went to our destination---Pepper Springs, in Hepburn Springs...
the building itself was lovely and looked promising... we were glad to make the right choice, ie. instead of going for a full expensive but yet less expensive than the top 5 spa places in Daylesford/Hepburn Springs, we opted for a cheaper one, but chose among the top 5 location... ^_^ it's like buying those discounted bandy stuff... ^_^... as I was thinking... since it's supposed to be a pamper session, then, we must go to a good place, with soothing and promising ambience, rather than just anywhere... otherwise, I can just do it in any city, right??

Pepper Springs location is right next to the real Hepburn Springs... that's why it's very famous...
when we went to the check in counter, after paying off the remaining balance, the lady handed each of us a bathrobe and a pair of slippers, (of good quality, rather than those paper slippers that you can find in those 3-star hotels)
then, the lady brought us to the waiting lounge, wooh!! we saw a lot of ladies there, besides him, there's only another male on site.... ^_^ ie. ladies really know how to pamper themselves, and we notice, mostly it's couple who'll opt for the wet retreat area usage, ie. the package we chose... but the rest of the single ladies, all of them are taking various massage pacakages...

In this waiting lounge area, there's herbal tea served, that we can have at our own leiruse, and some apples in the middle... the tea that we had at that time, was berry green tea... oh!! nice oh!! ^_^
We were asked to fill up some questionnaires... then we were brought to the retreat area...

There's a pool with 3 different segment, 2 hot jacuzzis on each side and a plunge(cold 24 degree) in the middle

Then, a stone sauna room, a detox room(infra-red) and a thick steam room... I like the thick steam room, the steam was really thick that you hardly see anything, and even though I knnow mostly it's the steam on my body, but I felt like I was really sweating a lot, it felt good ^_^

On top of these, there's a sundeck and a small leisure guest lounge in the corner, plus a drink counter, where herbal tea is served and where you get to replenish yourself with plenty of water... plus there's a quick shower room, for those who just come out of the sauna/steam room to rinse themselves before jumping into the pool...

We're allowed to use this whole area for one hour (ONLY) so... basically, it's just hopping in and out of different rooms/pools...
I didn't try the plunge pool but he did, with no fear!!! ^_^ the weather that day was considered cold, I tried to insert my foot inside the pool, couldn't take it... so, didn't bother... in fact, the good practice is cold-hot-cold-hot intermittently...

I saw the girl of one of the couples... she was really making 100% use of the facilities... I saw her really busy walking around, changing the 'venues' from time to time... a real busy lady!!

Surprisingly... at the end of the 1 hour, maybe really, it's the mineral spa that working on me, or the hopping in and out of the pool/rooms... I was feeling pretty drained, relaxed, and sleepy...

At the end of it, we went to our separate changing room to take our showers and etc... wow!! it's already 4pm, but I still see plenty of girls coming in... as this mineralspa.com only takes 12 people at one time for the retreat area, and maybe another 12 people for the massages, so, we see people coming in batch, rather than there will be a continous flow...

Then... we head off back to Melbourne... then... another 'accidental' event...

(pictures are not originally from me.. as we didn't carry our camera to the wet retreat area, one reason is that it's a wet place, another reason is, I don't think they'll allow us to snap pictures like nobody's business, especially there're other guests who're in their swimming costumes)