The Best Spa Salons in Moscow

The Barvikha Hotel & Spa offers its visitors a luxury experience in this posh space, located a 30 minute drive from the centre of Moscow. This spa is one of the most expensive, but it offers a range of treatments. Here you can get an ancient Chinese or European treatments, take a hydromassage bath, or treat yourself at the health bar located on the ground floor. The interior was designed by famous Italian maestro Antonio Citerrio.

Purovel Spa & Sport wellness centre is located in the heart of Moscow, at luxury Swissotel Krasnye Holmy. The goal is to satisfy visitors’ needs through cosmetic and healthy goods based on organic and eco resources. It offers various fitness programs, massages, therapies, oil treatments, pedicures, manicures, peeling and collagen revitalisation. Among the signature branded treatments are the Purovel Turkish stone massage and meadow massage. At the gym hall you can exercise daily between 6am and 11pm.

Sandunovskie bani (meaning sauna) is the oldest and most beautiful of Moscow’s bath houses. It’s been popular among locals and visitors for decades, and is a special recreational institution, not just a sauna. Only here are visitors able to get a special old Russian bath treatments. It is exceptionally designed with marble floors, columns and beautiful benches. Traditional Russian treatments include herbal massage, hot and cold baths and a sauna visit. The beauty centre offers high-class pedicures and manicures plus massage and tanning. Private bathrooms are available upon request in advance.

The Health Club & Beauty Centre at Moscow’s Baltschug Hotel (belonging to the Kempinski chain) offers a wide range of health treatments, massages, oil therapy and private/group yoga classes. Clients may visit the jacuzzi, pool and sauna and treat themselves to an Indian or Hawaiian tea after.