![]() ![]() CENTREVILLE- A Washington City Paper reporter tries to spend a full 24 hours in Spa World, Centreville's noted massage destination. This zone can be a lively social scene, but because all ages are welcome at both spas, families are as common as couples, squads, and me-timers.28. These sprawling hot tubs have stations with various configurations of hydrotherapy jets to blast tension from your muscle groups. Put on your swimsuit and head to the coed, bar-adjacent bade pools. An attendant wearing textured gloves relieves you of your dead skin-and your last shred of modesty. Those who request the signature Korean body scrub receive it here, in the bath area, in the nude. ![]() In the women’s-only and men’s-only bathing areas, you’ll find showers, hot tubs, steam rooms, and cold-plunge pools. Find your locker and stash your belongings (don’t forget to bring your bathing suit). ![]() Receive a wristband to access your locker and track expenses-treatments, food, and drinks cost extra-and pick up a (not flattering) uniform of shorts and a T-shirt to wear later. Pay the entrance fee (no reservations required), typically between $30 and $50, which covers admission for 24 hours (both spas are open around the clock). South Korea’s many jimjilbangs, where de-stressing marathons are bolstered by food courts, amusements, and napping rooms, provided the model for King Spa and its nearby rival, Carrollton’s Spa Castle. Myriad cultures embrace the benefits of a communal bath or a good sweat-from the Mexican temezcal to the Japanese sento-and hold them dear to their national identities. But two giant, dueling Korean spas have become widely popular-and not just with the Dallas area’s large Asian population-for their trippy composites of crowd-pleasing amenities, Korean customs, and casual nudity. Enjoying waterslides, disaster movies, and kimchi stew alongside treatments would have been absurd, unthinkable. In Dallas, a spa day long meant surrendering to sweet boredom in surroundings no more stimulating than cucumber water. ![]()
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