Russian and Turkish Baths in East Village - New York

Take a whole lot of steam, hot tubs, sweaty men, cigars and beers and you'll get Russian and Turkish Baths in East Village, on the border between Manhattan and East Village. If you've seen the mob movies about the steamy bath houses where cigar-puffing hot-shots hang out in droves, and where business talk infuses with the rich aroma of cigar smoke and steam to produce a mystic, yet uniquely relaxing environment, you'll know what its all about. Its all about shvitzing, a bathing routine designed and practised in Eastern Europe, brought across to the new world many years ago. Steam baths, hot tubs and cool down rooms are complemented delightfully with beer and much boyish conversation.

The café provides you with Russian food and stocks you up on beer while you enjoy a bit of television or chill out on the roof-top, observing the sunset or letting the view unwind you. The heat rooms offer a choice. Choose between dry rooms, scented rooms or steam rooms, or the Russian room that packs 20,000 pounds of heatable rocks. Switch into pet mode, enjoying a 15 minute pampering consisting of being scrubbed by a broom soaked in olive oil. Aside from being utterly enjoyable and drool-inducing, this practice helps to open the pores of your skin and detox you. After enjoying feeling as if you might be lost in the steams somewhere in a concrete jungle, which you are, chill out in the Ice Cold Pool. For those to which this seems too daunting; the thought of cold pools sending shivers up your spine, opt for the real luxury man and woman's triple-jet Swedish shower.

For those who require an overload of special attention, call for a massage or a soap wash with scented soap. For the slightly more adventurous, try the salt scrub or black-mud treatment, and feel like a regular rhinoceros. The effects of the Russian and Turkish Bath in east Village will leave you feeling and looking happy. The Russian and Turkish baths in East Village are for men only on Sundays, and women only on Wednesdays. Much to the disappointment of many, and the relief of others, clothing is compulsory on all the other days when men and women share the Russian and Turkish baths in East Village.

It is obvious that New York offers more than just big attractions such as Central Park, Times Square and helicopter tours of Manhattan; compliment your New York vacation with a luxury Russian and Turkish bath in East Village. Make the most of new concepts in New York luxury vacation in the form of holiday self-catering flats in Manhattan. Alternatively whisk yourself off to the New York countryside to enjoy beautiful scenery and fresh mountain air while staying in lavish log cabins with fireplaces and hot tubs.