The Al Andalus Hammam Baths in Granada are just off the famous River Darro with flags fluttering at the Alhambra Palace above. Cross one of the ancient stone arched bridges, down a narrow back street and the Hammam welcomes you to enter via the hefty Moorish wooden door.
Greeted by humidity and incense, candles and Moroccan decor you know the journey has begun. Welcomed, given a coloured band if you’re booked for a massage, and protective plastic slip-ons to go over your footwear you enter the steamy, dimly-lit, senuous (but hot with street clothes on) changing rooms. Moorish horseshoe arches, candles, Nasri-style decoration and beautiful tiles set the scene. Silence prevails. Relaxation and pampering begin here.
Head out into the baths and you’re shown the different bathing areas, one cold, one warm, two hot and the sauna. Take a shower in the massage area and you’re ready to float, relax, work your way through the different temperature baths, admire the lovely decor, inhale the incense and drift away to the soft and dreamy Moorish music. The quietness, the ambient lighting and the romance means you will relax, except in the cold pool if you’re brave enough!
After several rounds of pools and sauna sessions, between hot mint tea which made you actually want to get into that cold pool, and having chosen between four different essential oils for our massage, we were summoned. I chose Lavender and hubby chose Pomegranate oil for ours.
Waiting briefly on a huge hot stone, too warm without a towel, I could have stayed there longer, our masseurs beckoned us. Each in our own little cave-like cubby hole our chosen oil and our choice of back or legs or both and soft, medium or hard our Mimma massage began. After feeling clean and cleansed from bathing the massage was the cream on the cake. Pampered? Yes. Relaxed? Yes. Calm? Yes. Content? Yes. Revived? Yes. Wanting to leave? NO!
I was a very contented guest of Hammam Al Andalus who have four Hammams in Spain in Cordoba, Granada, Madrid and Malaga.
Read some of my other posts about Granada
Only Spain Boutique Hotels in Granada
Must Visits in Granada in 24 Hours or More
Or my post about the Hammam Al Andalus in Malaga
Luxury Spain Travel 
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