Hot Spring Hotel and Spa

Last week Annie and I went to one of the Hot Spring Hotels in which Taiwan is famous for. There are several up in the mountains and since Taiwan is on a major geological thermal fault or something like that (Josh should know what the term is), most of them feature hot springs in which customers can relax while being away from the city. Annie and I went to one close to Taipei in Ging-San (Gold Mountain). It was Japanese themed and featured in-room hot spring as were a 5 outdoor springs with good scenery. They provided dinner and breakfast and also spa treatment. It was pretty nice overall, the hot springs and spa was good, dinner was ok. Also since it was trying to follow the whole Japanese style, there wasn't any bed and you actually sleep on the floor. Annie didn't have any problems sleeping but I would have preferred a real bed. However I would say the fault is more in my soft western body instead if the hotels.

So for spa Annie choose a oil massage with something in which they wrapped her in aluminum foil then bathed her in some gunk which is suppose to make her skin all bright and shiny. For me I would have preferred they gave my portion to Annie since I am not a big fan of massages, however since this was not an option I went with the Cupping Massage. Now I have seen the pamphlets they are always all so soothing in which they tell about how the cupping therapy will 'releases rigid soft tissue; drain excess fluids and toxins; loosen adhesions and lift connective tissue; and bring blood flow to stagnant skin and muscles', they show nice and relaxing pictures like this

This is all front to cover us what you have to go through to achieve all the nice things you get out of this therapy. It is painful and the only relaxation I had was when it was all over and they pain has stopped. If they use just cups then I think it would be ok, however they also use these long suction things which they run up and down your back which just kills you. Here is what my back looked up right after
I wonder how popular this massage would be if they put pictures like this in their pamphlets?