“Even overnight,” she muttered, without a wink or smile or anything but an effort to move me along. She gave me a numbered wristband with an electronic code imprinted in it - this would scan and open my two lockers (one for my shoes, one for the rest) and allow me to make purchases while on-premises. I checked in at the front desk with a lady I would discover as the only person who spoke fluent English in the establishment. Now, my Groupon in hand, I approached the entrance where two stone lions resembling those outside the downtown Chicago Public Library guarded it. My friend Thrisa (yes, that’s spelled correctly) had told me of the wonders inside King Spa - a temple of rejuvenation for the tired and weary. I pulled up into King Spa’s parking lot on a cold February Tuesday afternoon in 2011, feeling disheveled, body begging for relaxation. Be it King Spa in Illinois and New Jersey or the multiple Spa Castle establishments in New York, the name transports you to the Middle Ages, promising a pampering fit for a Queen. The immediate thing that’s great about Korean spas is their use of medieval terminology. The first Korean spa I went to was King Spa in Niles, IL. You can blame this on me being a Capricorn at heart, though my astrological chart is complicated.īut there’s one place in the world where I suspend my disbelief and buy into everything I’m promised: Korean spas.

I believe in possibility but don’t like wishing on a star. I don’t like getting my hopes up for something that isn’t feasible or attainable. Read this story on so you can see all the pretty pictures in it!

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