Massage and hammam
Spa menu
Tap one, pick a day and a time, and you are booked. Pay by card or at reception.
Packages are shared with the sauna, so a package you already hold works here too.
The long one
A full body scrub in the steam of the hammam, rinsed off, then a full hour on the table. It is the treatment to pick when you have the afternoon free and want to leave feeling like a different person.
Steam first. You soften in the heat of the hammam until the skin gives.
Full body scrub. Worked over properly, then rinsed off warm.
An hour on the table. Full body massage while you are already loose.
18,000LKR
1.5 hours
Our therapists have two decades of hands on experience. They read tension rather than following a script, and adjust pressure as they go.
Music and nothing else. The road, the kitchen and the rest of the building disappear, which is the difference between a nice massage and properly letting go.
Natural oils chosen for the treatment, warmed before they reach you, so the hands move without dragging.
The same packages that get you into the sauna work here. If you already hold one, treatments come out of it.
A short conversation first
Where it hurts, how much pressure you want, anything to avoid. Two minutes, and it changes the whole hour.
Headphones on
Music, and the rest of the building gone. Say so if you would rather have quiet.
The work itself
Pressure and pace adjust as your therapist finds what is tight. Speak up at any point and it changes.
Water, then upstairs
Take a few minutes before you stand up. Maha Mezze is one floor above if you want to sit with the view.
Straightforwardly, without the claims about flushing toxins. Here is what the hour is doing to you.
Sustained pressure on a tight muscle helps it release and makes the surrounding joint easier to move. Shoulders, lower back and hips are where most people carry it.
Working the tissue brings blood to the area, which is part of why a worked muscle feels warmer and looser afterwards.
Slow, predictable touch shifts the body out of its alert state. That is the actual mechanism behind the calm people describe afterwards.
An evening treatment tends to carry straight into a good night. Book late if sleep is what you are after.
If you are pregnant, recovering from an injury, or being treated for a medical condition, say so when you book and mention it again to your therapist.
The packages are shared between the sauna and the spa, so if you are staying in Hiriketiya for a while, one package covers both.
Unlimited plans include 10% off drinks & food and 20% off events & massages.
3 sessions
16,000LKR
5 sessions
25,000LKR
10 sessions
45,000LKR
1 month unlimited
60,000LKR
3 months unlimited
120,000LKR
A Moroccan hammam runs 90 minutes and starts in the steam room, where your body is scrubbed heavily with soap and oils before being rinsed. A massage is hands on the table only, and runs 30, 60 or 90 minutes depending on what you book. The hammam at Maha Sauna includes a full hour of massage after the scrub.
Thirty minutes for a targeted massage on the head, neck and back, one hour for a full body massage, or 90 minutes for a full body massage with red light therapy, or for the hammam.
You can drop in and ask, but booking is better. A treatment needs a therapist free for the whole hour, so walk ins depend on what is already on the day.
Swimwear. The hammam takes place in the steam room and involves a full body scrub, so bring what you would wear for the sauna. Everything else is provided.
Yes. Ask at reception and they will set the timing so you go through the circuit and onto the table without waiting around. Packages are shared between the sauna and the spa.
At Maha Sauna on Hiriketiya Beach Road in Dikwella, downstairs under Maha Mezze. Full body massage, targeted massage, facials, red light therapy and a Moroccan hammam, with therapists who have twenty years of experience.
The only sauna, ice bath and restaurant under one roof on the south coast. Heat and ice downstairs, treatments in the same building, and Maha Mezze one floor up when you are done.
