Amuma Spa Experience

After swimming, I was finally off to experience my much-anticipated massage.

Its Amuma spa tariff and the spa essentials displayed in the lobby when we arrived were what convinced me to have a massage.  Those and the fact that the past months were such a busy season for us that my backache felt worse. 

It was also in the lobby that I booked for Hilot Lamang that according to their tariff is a massage only variant of their signature Amuma Hilot.  To expound, it says Hilot Lamang involves long flowing strokes and techniques to relax tense or spastic muscles.  It is a treatment that increases the joints' range of motion, soothes the nervous system and reduces swelling and helps eliminates toxins from the tissues.

My massage was done in this gazebo overlooking the sea.

My therapist was Elnisa who had been a therapist for about two years and considered a senior one that she would sometimes oversee the training of others.  She was friendly and chatty and from her, I learned that a former colleague had overseen the resort's operations months ago and is now handling one of Bluewater's resorts.  She was very chatty that I found out who among our celebrities had stayed there.

My Verdict

While my massage indeed relaxed me, I couldn't help but compare it to how we do our massage in Plantation Bay.  Elnisa was okay but she did not ask me questions on how my massage was going e.g. is the pressure right?  Such a question usually forms part of the experience as it guides the therapist on how she is doing and if the guest is comfortable.

Another downside was that since the massage was done in the open, though the view was scenic, it could get uncomfortable every time other guests passed by as some would glance at us.  

Shots of Sumilon Island's Pools

When my friends decided to go snorkeling, I opted to stroll around the island as I did not want to swim in the salty sea.  But the water, albeit the freshwater one, still beckoned so I ended up swimming on the resort's pool.

This is another downside of the resort as the pool was too small.  Funny that a staff shared that it's an 'infinity' pool when it already got too crowded when about 10 guests simultaneously went swimming on it.

Aside from the main pool, there were also two smaller ones that I was told were jacuzzis but the jacuzzi was not running when I was there.

As the main pool was right across the Pavilion and visible to many guests, I ended up swimming in the two smaller ones for privacy reasons.  On the latter was where I took my favorite shot of that bird amidst a sea of colorful bougainvilleas.

Little Spiderhunter Amidst a Sea of Bougainvilleas

As promised in my previous post, here's a picture of my favorite shot when I went bird-watching in Sumilon Island.

I'm not sure if I got it right but it could be a Little Spiderhunter (Arachnothera longirostra).  I'm sure about the flowers being bougainvilleas, though.