Thursday 20 November 2014

Review: Tea Spa in South Jakarta

I was in Jakarta early last month to visit Angie who has been transferred there for a year.

On my second day in Jakarta, we hopped into a bajaj and headed for our spa session.

 The bajaj is built for small sized people. We could fit 2 people at the back. But I don't think even one sumo wrestler can fit in there.


After riding around and getting lost, we managed to find Tea Spa on Jalan Gunawarman 9, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta.

The spa is locsted above a cafe that sells tea (what else!).


As we walked up the stairs we were greeted with this table:

I like this table with the 'Tea Spa' wordings at the top.





While waiting for the lady to prepare our massage materials, I went around snapping pics and took this:

 Interesting words ...


The lady led us to the room where I managed to snap a pic before the massage began:



We chose the 3-hour Perfect Contour Tea Treatment which is one of the spa's signature package. The package consists of a Tea Aromatherapy French Massage (for slimming), Herbal Tea Body Scrub, Herbal Tea Body Mask and Herbal Tea Body Wrap.

My massauer was good with her hands and placed just enough pressure.

After we finished the treatment and I had my super sweet ginger tea, the lady led me to another room for my half leg waxing.

This time the waxing was way below that of the quality I get back in KL.

First of all, they used poor quality wax. After the therapist applied the wax onto my legs and left it to dry, she had a tough time peeling off the sides of the wax to give it a good yank. When she finally could peel the edges, the wax tore away in small parts and she had to scrap away the remnants from my skin.

The end result was that it was not a clean waxing in the sense that there were still hairs on my legs and even tiny bits of wax still stuck to my skin.

Eventhough the massage was good but the waxing was not great at all and I would certainly not recommend you to do at Tea Spa.

After the massage we went looking for the famous Sate Senayan:

When in Indonesia, always look for the word 'gratis' because it means 'free' :-) 


This was dinner:

Clockwise from top left: Sate Senayan, Sup Bontot and Nasi Complete. 


While enjoying dinner I was fascinated with these 3 wooden sculptures at the entrance of the restaurant:




2 comments:

Sapi Lucu said...

Whaatt, u were heree? Hehehe...
How do you like jakarta? Chaotic right?.

Btw it's Sate Senayan, not Sendayan. Tea Spa is actually not that good, I would recomend you to go to Martha Tilaar Spa or for a good massage, heads to Roger Salon at Jl Senopati and ask for wagini as your massaeur.

Julie Lim said...

Hi Vari Sapi Lucu,

Change made to Sate Senayan!

And thanks for the spa tip. I'll try Martha Tilaar Spa next time I'm in Jakarta.

Btw, I'll be posting my thoughts and observations about Jakarta in my next post :-)

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