Honestly, it seems like sort of a missed investment if you don’t have sex immediately after. But after the whole thing - scrub, rinse, oil massage, rinse, mask, shampoo, rinse - I was as soft as 1,000-thread count sheets. When Gina flipped me over, she pulled by bikini bottom into an atomic wedgie so she could scrub my butt cheeks.
It hurt when she scrubbed my elbows and knees the rest felt wonderful. I was scrubbed from between my toes to behind my ears and even my belly button (an INNIE!!) by a woman named Gina wearing hot pink slippers. I took my great aunt, who I overheard in the stall nearby exclaiming, “Yummy!”īefore your scrub, you blanch yourself in a hot tub for 30 minutes, then go back to a cubicle in the Bath House and get naked (you can keep your bathing suit bottom on if you’re shy). And they’re a group activity, like getting a mani-pedi with your mother-in-law, hence the semi-open area where they take place. In Korean bath house ( jimjilbang) culture, body scrubs are the closest a mammal can get to shedding her exoskeleton. This is also where the body scrubs take place.
The scrubs: Within the locker rooms is an area called the “Bath Houses” which includes a few hot tubs, two cold tubs, a sauna, and a steam room. There are also showers and bathrooms where you can slip your bare toes into paper slippers in case you’re afraid of pee splatter underfoot. The locker rooms: Pick up your robe and towel here. There are many water fountains, and you sweat so much you need to be chugging the stuff. A deep moisturizer! Most important: An empty water bottle, airport-style. Preferred toiletries, although they also have soaps in the shower stalls in the locker rooms, plus hair dryers. Swimsuit (or you can opt for a SoJo-provided cotton spa-outfit thong bottoms and other “overly exposing swimwear” are forbidden, as is sportswear.) A book. Hey, still cheaper than Broadway tickets and dinner, and you can stay ALL DAY LONG. However, I’d argue you shouldn’t go without having a scrub for $115 plus tip, and you’re probably going to smash on $20–30 worth of food and drink since outside food isn’t allowed.
The cost: $60 on a weekday, $80 on the weekend. However, weekends are wild and the shuttle can fill up by Tuesday - book ahead! There’s also a ferry between Edgewater and Midtown West that would require hopping on a quick bus, or walking 17 minutes. Or if you’re coming from Manhattan, there’s a free shuttle van from Midtown usually every hour in both directions.
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