Tere!

It’s been almost 5 years since I came to Estonia, but one of the things that I had never tried was a spa experience!

Estonia is famous for saunas, and locals love them too. Waterparks called veekeskus are here and there in Estonia, and of course there are also several in Tallinn.

This time I went to V Spa in Tartu. I still don’t know why my boyfriend chose it though. V spa is a spa with a hotel (or a hotel with a spa?). We went there not as a day trip, but stayed there.

Also it was my first time staying at a hotel since I left Japan in 2017…

I was worried in a sense because the petrol price had been increasing (and not I but he had to drive), but we went there by car. It takes around two hours by car from Tallinn to Tartu.

When I went to Tartu previously, I took a train, so for me it kind of felt special.

In a while after leaving Tallinn, he said

Fuck!!!

What!?

I forgot my backpack!!!

Really!!???

We had already proceeded a lot since we left Tallinn, so we gave up his luggage.

We continued driving because we stayed there only one night and nothing but swimwear was extremely important.

We kept driving, but we realised that there was no petrol station with a store and a cafe for a while since we left Tallinn. Basically there was one road, and on the route to Tartu we needed to drive for a while until we reached the petrol station.

Then I realised that on a highway (?) in Estonia there is no payment gate! Literally there was one road basically, and there were trees, houses and factories on the sides, as well as no gate to pay for the use of a highway like ones in Japan.

Around two hours later, we arrived in the centre of Tartu. The hotel was part of a shopping centre, and the first and second floors of the underground were for parking.

After checking in at the hotel, we went to the shopping centre to buy his swimwear, but at a sports shop in the shopping centre there was nothing good and the price was approximately 40 EUR. He eventually decided to buy one at the spa, but then we also reliased that

we both didn’t bring flip-flops.

For me it was the first time to go to a spa, so I didn’t even think that we needed such things. We both bought pairs at the spa.

I had one pair at home, so now I have two pairs…

Since the spa is connected to the hotel, we could change the clothes at our hotel room, and enter the spa with the robes that we had in the room.

What we booked was a room at the hotell, access to the spa and the sauna world as well as a buffet breakfast at the hotel.

When entering the spa, there were lockers, and you can put your stuff there. We also brought towels from the hotel room. You don’t need to bring your own keys like a padlock because you can get an access key like a watch shape. We got ours at the hotel reception. You can lock and unlock the locket with it.

After that, you need to take a shower before entering the spa. The shower rooms are separate for men and women of course.

After taking a shower, I got in the pool, but it was a bit cold, so we went to one of the saunas.

In the first sauna, there was a TV for kids for some reason.

The pool is not just a regular pool. It hs a massage section with jets, jacuzzis, and a fun spot under the bridge on the pool with water flows. (I had fun with this.) Outside of the spa, there was a hot jacuzzi, but all the jacuzzi were too full to try.

In this spa there is a place called salt world (I don’t know what it is), and a place called sauna world. We could access the sauna world, so we tried several including a Finnish sauna.

Of course there is a cold water pool. It was as cold as ice for me so I didn’t try but he did.

After experiencing the Finnish sauna, we were both kind of dizzy, so we took a break and left the spa.

I think we had been in the spa for two hours or so.

After we took showers and dried well, we went back to our hotel room.

We couldn’t move for a while… I realised that water took our physical energy. It had been a while to swim or even to soak myself in the water in public. I also finally wore swimwear that I bought in winter 2021.

We were relaxing and watching a TV in a hotel room, but we got hungry, so we bought some poke in the shopping centre.

After that, we were just e\relaxing on the bed.

We got so tired, so we just prepared to sleep and slept.

We realised in the next morning, but we both slept like babies.

I got hungry after waking up, and we went to the buffet. However, I had been on a ketogenic diet for two weeks until the Friday of that week, avoiding carbohydrate-main products, so I had no idea what to eat. I selected randomly, but the amount was too little, so I got hungry immediately again.

When we checked in, the receptionist told us that we could go to the spa from 9 to 12 on the day we needed to check out, and I wanted to try a jacuzzi after the breakfast, but he was too tired to go, so I gave up that idea.

We were relaxing, watching a TV in the hotel room, and then we headed back to Tallinn.

This was my first spa experience, and I enjoyed it a lot, but for sure it’s not a place that you should go only by yourself.

And I didn’t take any pictures.

Aitäh! 🙂