My Cool Mint Spa: My Spa of Choice

Location: G/F Elizabeth Hall Bldg., Katipunan Ave. Quezon City (Beside the big Shell gas station and across Petron gas station)


Contact Nos: (02) 920-9531 / (02) 436-1160 / 09274446132

Open Daily: 12:00 noon to 10:30 pm

* Reservation is not required but highly recommended



Services:

Massage Therapy

- Swedish
- Shiatsu
- Combination
- Reflexology
- Lymphatic
- Aromatherapy

Body Treatments

- Botanical Salt Body Polished
- Coffee and Spice Citrus
- Whitening Body Polish
- Apricot Body Polish
- Seaweed Wrap
- Dead Sea Wrap
- Waxing


Spa Packages

- Footloose Package (body massage 1hr + 30 mins footsie)

- Feel Squeaky Clean Package (body massage + body polish)

- Glowing, Glowing Gone Package (body massage + refreshing facial)

- It's a Wrap Package (body massage + body wrap)


Ambiance: The place is relatively quiet and the private rooms are spacious enough and nice. It has its own bathroom but unfortunately no toilet unlike other private rooms.

Their common room, I must say, looks neat and relaxing but it would be much better if all (male or female common room) of the rooms/beds are located on the 2nd floor and not just adjacent the receiving area or lobby. Sometimes you can see the people inside from the sheer, white, curtains so I think it would be kind of uneasy to have your full body massage with the thought of accidental peek a boo. Anyway, common room at the ground floor is actually okay just as long as the covers are not only curtains.


Staff: Staff are nice and their therapists are very good. My Cool Mint Spa is under the management of The Palm Garden Health Spa, the first who introduced health spa concept in the Philippines, so I think they really underwent rigorous training.

Price: Full body massage for 1 hour starts at Php350 for the common room and Php500 for the private room. You can extend the massage for another 30 minutes for an additional Php250. I must say that their pricing is reasonable enough compared to other health spas out there. You'll really get what you paid for and I must say, much more. By the way, My Cool Mint Spa also has a special ongoing offer right now. Their body massage only costs Php280 for common room and Php400 for private room but is only applicable during Monday-Thursday, 12nn-5pm and cannot be availed during holidays.

Remarks: My Cool Mint Spa is now definitely my #1 spa to go to whenever I feel like pampering myself, Blue Water Day Spa comes next. Ambiance, amenities and cleanliness wise, my vote goes for the latter, but the detailed and relaxing massages that My Cool Mint Spa offers, plus the affordable prices that goes with them, is definitely a catch. Our first visit there (we tried swedish combined with reflexology) was awesome although our very recent one was not that great. See, we told them that we're going to avail the 1 1/2 hour massage but their therapists only massaged us for 1 hour. I think they are also in a hurry to finish. The receptionists apologized and only asked us to pay a 1 hour massage.

My friend and I were actually wondering what happened because what transpired did not really meet our expectations. I just realized that maybe, the best time to get a massage is during the first hour of the spa's opening when the therapists are not yet tired and in a hurry to finish. When we had our first massage at My Cool Mint, the spa has just opened so our experience was good. Maybe this also goes out to all spas out there?

On the other hand, the 1/2 hour extension that My Cool Mint Spa offers is also a personal favorite. I'm quite sure that most feel that a 1 hour massage is too short and a 2 hour massage is just too long. Thus, this 1/2 hour extension for a price of Php250.00 is actually a brilliant idea.

Regardless of what happened during our last visit, which is really a minor one (there must be some kind of misunderstanding only), I would still go back to My Cool Mint Spa and try their body scrubs. I had a massage and body scrub at Palm Garden Health Spa way back 2008 and It was really good. So this time, again, I am expecting their body polish to be equally great. ^_^