By The Editors By The Editors | October 25, 2024 | Lifestyle, Guides,
Here are the best spas in San Francisco to pamper yourself or someone you love.
Loaded with luxe touches like heated floors and benches, Archimedes draws on a number of traditions, with Turkish hammam-style steam rooms, Finnish dry saunas and Russian saunas. It offers a range of massages, facials and spa treatments, including the Russian venik platza, a massage given in a heated sauna that involves “careful lashing” with supple bunches of young oak leaves and branches. Afterward, cool down on a sun lounger on the roof deck and take in views of the San Francisco Bay.
This light-filled salon tucked above the bustle of First Street peddles massages, facials, waxing and, of course, manicures and pedicures. The signature Cocoon massage combines a body scrub and essential oils to lull you into deep relaxation so that you’ll hopefully emerge feeling transformed.
Communal baths and acupuncture complement Kabuki’s menu of traditional spa treatments, provided in its beautiful designer space constructed of dark wood and natural stone.
You won’t find scented candles and fluffy bathrobes at Psoas. What you will find are massage therapists who know their way around a sports injury. The 60-to-90-minute massages here are an interactive experience: The therapists communicate throughout, but if you want to lie prone in silence, that’s fine too—everything at Psoas is tailored to your comfort level. There’s a reason that the waiting room is typically full of CrossFit survivors as well as aching desk jockeys.
It seems out of the way amid the warehouselike buildings in the Presidio, but there’s plenty of parking and you already feel like you’ve left the hubbub behind when you walk inside. SenSpa has a long menu of massages and treatments, as well as seasoned, knowledgeable staff members.
This woman-owned business continues a family tradition of massage and herbal spa. The first Suchada, started in the late 1940s by the owner’s grandmother, was a well-known salon and herbal spa destination in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Suchada SF opened in 2006. All three locations are decorated in traditional Thai style, with furniture, fabric and artwork imported from Thailand.
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