The Thalasso Getaway

After my post about Saint Malo (here), here I am again with a diary of my stay at Le Grand Hotel des Thermes and the Thalasso attached to it. I arrived at the station of Saint Malo after a 6 hour train journey to this monumental hotel, where I was shown to my beautiful sea view room.

 This was the view of my room.

After settling in, I went for a very nice lunch in the gastronomic restaurant of the hotel 'Cap Horn'

I changed into my bathrobe and slippers and took the elevator down to the Thalasso of the hotel, because my 'thalasso thérapie' program was about to start.

On the program:

massages, seaweed wraps, multi-jet baths, facial treatment, manual affusion shower, under water showers, marine draining, ondorelax,...

I was pampered, alright.

 In between treatments I went swimming, or in the hammam or sauna or chilled in the sea view lounge with some bio tea.

After a 'busy' day, I went for a nice dinner and a glass of wine and I was in bed by 10! Feeling so relaxed and balanced already, and that was only day 1...you can imagine me after 2 & 3 :)

Isn't this the face of a super relaxed woman?

 

I had never experienced a thalasso getaway before, but I can very much recommend it, now that I have lived it to the fullest. Everything was exactly how it was supposed to be, the hotel, the food, the treatments, the friendly staff.

They also organise mommy & baby getaways, which seems like such a good idea when you are a young mom, as they have a licenced day care during your treatments and all sorts of activities adapted to mommy & baby.

 

This 3-day getaway was offered to me by Elle België, Atout France and Les Thermes Marins de Saint Malo.

Thanks to them all for a perfect organisation and the kind welcome.

 

 

Saint Malo, c'est beau

When I told people I would go for a 3-day retreat to Saint Malo on my own, people said I would feel lost so alone, not knowing what to do with myself. But I already had a sneaking suspicion that I would be fine. Of course I miss my baby & man like crazy, but I don't feel utterly lost (there is Skype and mobile phones and the knowledge that the baby is well taken care of). I sort of feel reconnected with myself after 3 days of pure luxury and pampering (yes, it is a 5-star Thalasso retreat, you can hate me now) and solely focussing on myself. In your every day life you don't get to spend so much time with yourself, to think and to breath clean air and wake up and go to sleep with the sound and the rhythmic movement of the sea. So who am I to complain.

Anyways, I am in Saint Malo, thanks to Elle België, Atout France and Les Thermes Marins de Saint Malo, and it is a very nice walled city in Brittany with a very dramatic coastline.

At low tide there is this tidal swimming pool that appears, lots of little islands that become reachable on foot, forts you can visit, but you have to be very aware of the tide, because it can sneak up on you and then you are trapped. At high tide you better just look out of the window, because she is a wild thing, this sea. The sky and the sea have so many colours and change so quickly, as you will see in the pictures below. I would definitely come back! More about the Thalassotherapie, the hotel and the food in one of the following posts.