Ari Utari, spa manager at Lime Spa at Desert Palm, Dubai, tells Louise Oakley why it is important that therapists are given the freedom to engage with guests in order to create tailored treatments.
Lime Spa at Desert Palm, Dubai is one of only two such spas operated by luxury boutique hotel operator Per Aquum. Each of the two spas - the other being at Per Aquum’s first property, Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives - are vastly different in both their style and design, reflecting the fact that at its core, Lime Spa aims to be truly personalised.
In Dubai, Lime benefits from an iconic location overlooking the polo fields of Desert Palm Polo Club from within the Desert Palm hotel, which has quietly been building a loyal following over the past couple of years.
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Located slightly outside of Dubai on the Al Awir Road, Desert Palm has escaped some of the intense competition between the beachfront hotels at one end and the city hotels at the other and instead attracted its own unique clientele looking to escape and explore new territory.
Lime Spa seeks to capitalise on this and ensure its guests totally unwind — as the website says, “you are invited to come out of the past, out of your comfort zone and out of your shell”.
Spa manager Ari Utari, who has extensive experience in spas in Bali, Maldives, Saipan, New Zealand and Paris, explains the philosophy.
How would you sum up the philosophy of Lime Spa?
Lime at Desert Palm is different. It offers personalised treatments tailored to the individual, aromatherapy, bespoke massages, signature rituals for all body types, dedicated music menu, visiting spa icons and a forward thinking approach to the wellbeing of body and mind.
Our therapists are given freedom to engage with their guest, something which is often missing from the uniform treatments found in more ‘corporate’ spas. At Lime there is no ‘one size fits all’ package as each treatment is tailored to the individual.
Instead, Lime invites guests to drop their cares, worries, guard and anything that has been weighing them down. Lime is about trying something new, something different, something fresh, something that perhaps pushes their boundaries and moves them, comfortably, out of their comfort zone.
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