
Planning a Celebration Around a Spa Visit
A birthday, a milestone or the morning before a wedding, planned as the scheduling job it actually is rather than a surprise you announce first.
Reading on rest, touch and the small art of slowing down.

A birthday, a milestone or the morning before a wedding, planned as the scheduling job it actually is rather than a surprise you announce first.

An evening massage is the easiest one to fit into a working week and the easiest one to get slightly wrong. Here is how to choose the slot, the length and the route home.

A lunch hour massage is possible in Midtown, but only if you are honest about the minutes either side of it. Here is the arithmetic, and how to go back to your desk looking like yourself.

New York is a walking city, and visitors feel it by the second afternoon. Which massage suits tired legs, and when on the trip to book it.

A wedding, a pitch, an interview, a race. Here is how to fit a massage into the run-up without it landing on the one morning you need to be sharp.

A massage and a show can share an evening, but only in one order. Here is how to work backwards from curtain, and why a matinee day changes the plan.

Wind down the avenues, radiators turned up at home and a coat you never quite take off. Here is how to plan a massage around the cold months in the city.

The commute into Manhattan from New Jersey is a daily shape the body learns. Here is how to fit a massage in front of the ride home, and how to turn it into a habit that survives a busy month.

A short guide to our block of West 38th Street: what the neighbourhood is like, how to find the door, and the simplest way in from every direction.

A train is the one appointment that will not wait for you. Here is how to fit a massage in front of it without spending the last ten minutes watching the clock.

A free hour and the sudden thought that you would like to spend it on a table. How to find a same-day slot quickly, and what makes one easier to get.

Hot pavements, hotter subway platforms and a walk that leaves you damp before you arrive. Here is how to make a summer massage feel like relief, not a race.