We were kindly greeted by the receptionists and after some moments submitting our form while enjoying a glass of fresh cold aloe vera extract, a lady directed us to the changing room where female and male would have separated area. The coolest thing is she said that we'd have a hammam ritual, an authentic Turkish bathing style. Susan and Adam would have it first on 2.45 pm while my turn would be on 4 pm. Luckily, while waiting, I'm allowed to explore all the facilities, since I'm a hotel guest too at RSW. Yay, wouldn't miss this.

The corridor

Heading to the changing room, we walked through an open corridor surrounding by trees. We put our bag and clothes in a locker (using 4 digit number to lock and reopen it) and immediately wore our swimwear, took a towel, bathing kimono and brown slippers. Felt so great!

Try to use my spare time wisely I entered Indoor Heat experiences. It is recommended to take shower before and after using the sauna/steam room. And here they have Ice Fountain and Experience Showers. It's a small open cubicle where the water will shower us from every direction. Superb! The temperature of the water varies from cold to hot, I found myself comfortable being here. Once you're done with shower, you can grab some cube ice and place it on your skin (especially the neck area) - it will relax our body after the heat experience.

Next I jumped into the Crystal Steam Room, with 42-46 deg Celsius room temperature, the steam comes out from the crystal rock placed in every corner of the mosaic wall. It's important to know you aren't having some health problems such heart conditions, asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, high/low blood pressure before enter the heat experiences area.

Crystal Steam Room - ESPA, RSW

Pregnant women are prohibited to use the area along with people who's taking medication or under alcohol influence. And, to remind you, don't forget to remove all jewelries to avoid burns and also do not shave before using this area.

The rock sauna was pretty cool, the higher seat you sit on, the hotter it feels. Too bad I didn't experience it myself, I kept sitting on lowest seat. Inside the  80-100 deg C sauna room, we are facing the outdoor pools surrounded by green plants, which was calming. Sorry, bad angle picture - I didn't dare to bring my camera inside the heat area. Anyway, please limit yourself for spending only 10 minutes sauna/steam room, just for safe.

Rock sauna - ESPA, RSW

Finished the heat experience I walked out to the Outdoors Pools. They have Vitality pool (warm/hot water), Cold plunge pool (obviously cold water), Forest Onsen-style pool (mixed gender pool, hot water). Since there was no people at that time, I felt like being in my own private pool.

Cold plunge pool - ESPA, RSW

Vitality pool - ESPA, RSW

Forest Onsen-style pool - ESPA, RSW

The Tea Lounge - ESPA, RSW

Lemon Twist!

Funny things, you can directly see the onsen from the tea lounge but people out there wouldn't be able to observe you. Just a minute before my turn for Hammam, I met Adam and Susan who had just finished theirs and looked so refreshed. I wonder...

The clock ticked at 4 PM, I walked into a changing room with parquet-like walls and mosaic stone seat. The therapist greeted me with  a mint drink to cool me down, explaining the kinds of mineral she would use to massage me: black olive oil, mud mask, also asked for my agreement for using scrubbing gloves. I then replaced my swimwear into a thin white sarong, entering another marvelous room.

Changing room

After another minutes of splashing water, she asked me to enter the steam room for about 15 minutes while serving me with a cold mineral water and cold towel. Really never want it to end but I have to end this hammam with rinsing myself and dress up reluctantly. Last thing before goodbye, the therapist kindly advised me to always applying lotion after taking bath -yes, been too lazy these days. HAHA!

Final thing, she served with me a strawberry sorbet which tasted heavenly awesome! The result was I felt so sleepy but along with refreshed and recharged body which is good (even my hair looks good and healthy)!

Strawberry sorbet - ESPA, RSW

Well, in fact, for this luxury and high-class treatment, we have to pay some quiet pricey amounts if RSW didn't let me have this for free. You can check the price list HERE, by the way. Try to break-down mine, this is the price of my treatment above

• Day Spa Facility Pass (Hotel guest only) --- S$  100
• Softening Hammam Ritual (45 mins) --- S$ 175