Set amid the majestic golden dunes of Dubai, you’ll find Bab Al Shams Spa & Hammam, a tranquil oasis that integrates contemporary wellness techniques with traditional Arabian medicine. The 18,000-sqft spa, which opened last year, offers healing experiences that aim to calm the mind and restore the body’s connection with nature.
Taking up a large part of the desert resort, the spa still maintains Bab Al Shams’ understated luxury by incorporating intelligent design into its structure. In addition to a private women’s area, it has four multi-purpose single rooms, two VIP couple’s suites, plus steam and sauna facilities. Completing the experience is a beautiful plunge pool set in a quiet courtyard, away from the city’s bustle.
Bab Al Shams Spa & Hammam offers powerful therapies with a basis in Moorish healing traditions combined with the regenerative forces of the desert. Adding another element of respect for nature, the spa collaborates with luxury brands that prioritise sustainable ingredients, including De L’Arta, Bamford, Whind, and Maison d’Asa.
Homegrown skincare label De L’Arta offers facials using resilient desert botanicals, while Bamford, making its regional debut at the spa, introduces vitalising energy treatments from one of the UK’s pioneering organic farms.
Moroccan-inspired Whind brings its signature “chemistry of glow” to two bespoke facials designed exclusively for Bab Al Shams, while Maison d’Asa leads the spa’s centrepiece, the Oriental Hammam. This sensorial ritual takes guests through Morocco’s ancient wellness pathways with elements like quartz sand bathing, warm black soap, neroli Rassoul masks, and rich oud-laced argan-oil massages.
Apart from the plethora of treatments, guests can embrace holistic wellness through the resort’s calendar of expert-led fitness classes and mindfulness activities.
Situated just 45 minutes from Downtown Dubai, near Al Qudra’s lakes and trails, Bab Al Shams Desert Resort is a sanctuary within the dunes. And at Bab Al Shams Spa & Hammam, guests will find that the journey is as much inward as it is outward.
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