Airports are turning into some of the most stressful places on the planet – which is why WE NEED MORE SPAS in them. Elemis have two at Terminal 5 and one in JFK – and while they are uber-relaxing you can only access them if you’re travelling Business or First. If you are one of the chosen few then head for a pre-flight treatment, they only take 15 minutes and you choose whichever part of your body needs attention – arms, feet, face, back. I love the Shoulder and Scalp special. Best of all you get to relax in the most amazing massage chair ever invented – it’s called an Intelligent Massage Chair and is something you would buy if you had a windfall .You can’t book in advance, just turn up once you’ve checked in and put your name on the list.I long for more airports to be like the one in Bangkok where there is a plethora of massage, manicure and beauty places. The best on offer is the Oxygen head and shoulder massage – 20 minutes for five dollars and an ideal pick-me-up after a long flight. You straddle a special chair and while your head, shoulders and neck are massaged you breathe pure oxygen from a special tube up your nose. Only downside is that at the end of the treatment the plastic tube delivering the oxygen leaves an impression on your face of something resembling Salvador Dali’s moustache!
You get some pretty strange looks…but who cares, you feel great
