With its convenient location on Gongti Beilu – opposite the stadium, tucked just behind Cuccina kitchen ware – just a stoner’s throw from the nightlife hotspots of Xilu and Sanlitun, Bodhi offers a tranquil retreat in which to pamper and preen oneself before hitting the bricks and getting a bit messy.
And just because the Sex and the City chicks have got the whole treat-yourself-before-you-wreck-yourself culture down to a fine art, doesn’t mean the gents can’t enjoy the fun too. To celebrate a full nine years of their continuous business, one of our manly
editors took a stroll down to Bodhi to see what they got, and what’s what.
The current special is something called a Cleopatra Treatment (RMB588). If it’s good enough for the face that launched a thousand ships – a bruising experience, surely – it’s good enough for us. Although the Egyptian ruler is famous for bathing in asses’ milk and being portrayed on screen by Elizabeth Taylor, this treatment is a little different (although Bodhi does offer aromatherapy baths for RMB300 in advance, ass milk not included).
Instead, this treatment involves taking a shower, donning panties made out of something akin to rice paper, then being oiled up, exfoliated, and covered in a nourishing, balanced milk-honey wrap which “restores balance and harmony to complexions.” Suitably scrubbed, the masseuse then shroud the entire body in plastic padded with towels.
Being soaked in lubricant and sheathed like a human condom is probably something that the ladies who lunch get up to the whole time without telling us. For us, there followed a 15-minute fever dream that we assume was part of the experience (if not, it’s a bonus). Then it’s back in the shower to remove the creamy scrub.
Here comes the massage: a soothing yet invigorating treatment that will knead all the tension from your shoulder and back, while leaving you poised and alert for an evening’s carousing.
There’s nothing like a full-body deep-tissue aromatherapy massage – none of the wince-inducing muscle rubs of the traditional Chinese medicinal massage, or the body-popping contortions of a Thai-style session.
Just a blissful feeling of being looked after by a professional. Meanwhile, come winter, Bodhi uses paraffin and Vitamin E to ease tension and aid moisture absorption.
To mark their near-decade
anniversary and thank their loyal customers, Bodhi are offering the following exclusive benefits. With purchase of a RMB3,000 VIP card, a free Thai neck pillow; RMB5,000 two extra Chinese body massage vouchers and a Thai neck pillow; RMB10,000, two extra Chinese body massage vouchers and a Thai axe cushion.
// Daily 11am-12.30am. 17 Gongti Beilu, Chaoyang District 朝阳区工体北路17号 (6417 9595)
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