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KuBu Spa
This city spa (although strictly speaking it is not in a city) offers a wealth of 'rituals' based upon Balinese traditions. Clearly the powers that be have been scouring their atlas for inspiration. Ordinarily, when plundering the traditions of the Far Eat, most plump for Thailand. So one has to congratulate them on their originality. Perhaps the choicest of their treatments is the Kubu Signature Ritual. It centres not on how one signs one's name but on the body. Starting with a petal foot soak, it moves on to a massage which in turn is followed by an organic body scrub. Finally, the whole experience is rounded off with another soak in a petal bath and this time you are given a glass of champagne and some Kubu chocolates. Most of the other treatments are in this sybaritic vein, while the decor nods to Bali: minimalism tempered with the odd opulent touch, generally involving flower petals.
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