Radiance Class: have anything like Celebrity's Persian Gardens spa?

[Kupe]

Hey gang-

 

My wife and I are considering booking a cruise aboard Radiance of the Seas. We were wondering if the Radiance-class ships have anything like the "Persian Gardens" spa area as is found aboard the Celebrity Infinity-class ships.

 

If you are not familiar, the Persian Gardens is sauna/steam/rain shower turkish-bath sort of spa area. Relaxing spa music, great lighting, atmospheric, and perfect for working out the kinks after a long excursion ashore! My wife and I paid a very reasonable surcharge for a full cruise admission to the Persian Gardens and it was a highlight of a South American cruise aboard Infinity.

 

We've never been aboard a Royal Caribbean ship, so any help much appreciated!

 

Cheers!

 

Kupe

[Alan13]

The Radiance Class ships have separate men's and women's steam rooms/saunas. You do not pay for them like Celebrity and they are not co-ed. There are also lockers/changing rooms. You then go through another door into the steam room/saunas where there are 4 showers and a handicapped shower. This area is one of my favorite things about Radiance Class. You will love it!

 

Alan

[Kupe]

Thanks Alan!

 

That does give me a rough idea. It sounds like perhaps the Radiance sauna/steam area is not so much a spa setup, but more like perhaps what one would see at a gymnasium or similar? We were hoping for a co-ed area like the Persian Gardens. I did find a picture, if anyone knows of something similar aboard Radiance class ships.

 

Thanks!

 

[BillOh]

The Radiance Class ships have separate men's and women's steam rooms/saunas. You do not pay for them like Celebrity and they are not co-ed. There are also lockers/changing rooms. You then go through another door into the steam room/saunas where there are 4 showers and a handicapped shower. This area is one of my favorite things about Radiance Class. You will love it!

 

Alan

 

Jewel, which is a Radiance class had the thermal spa are which was co-ed and had steam and dry sauna and aroma therapy rooms with a rinse shower (locker rooms were separate.) It was an additional cost and was limited, on our cruise to like 20 couples. We enjoyed it very much.

[BillOh]

Thanks Alan!

 

That does give me a rough idea. It sounds like perhaps the Radiance sauna/steam area is not so much a spa setup, but more like perhaps what one would see at a gymnasium or similar? We were hoping for a co-ed area like the Persian Gardens. I did find a picture, if anyone knows of something similar aboard Radiance class ships.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

The heated seats in the Thermal suite look like this, but they are individual seats in a group area. Let's see if I have a photo.

 

[hcat]

Thermal suites on Radiance class are nicer than the M class persian gardens b/c they face the sea & are not interior spaces...

 

On Celeb, S class the p/gardens face the sea!

 

both lines have free non-coed saunas in the locker room areas....

[Kupe]

Thermal suites on Radiance class are nicer than the M class persian gardens b/c they face the sea & are not interior spaces...

 

On Celeb, S class the p/gardens face the sea!

 

Thanks everyone- all good info!

 

Do you recall what the charge is for the Thermal Suites on Radiance class? Can you buy a pass for the entire cruise? I assume they are co-ed like Persian Gardens?

 

Kupe

[hcat]

I don't know the answer but it seems to vary by ship & capacity--you can also buy a day pass sometimes..we used to take it for the enitre cruise but prices were never the same...

 

now we sail Celeb Aquclass so persian gardens are included in our fare...!

[jota]

Hi, I'm going on my first RC cruise next month, would Voyager have something similar, I could see myself sitting on a warm chair looking out to sea around NZ's slightly chilly South Island.

[Kellie Poodle]

Hi, I'm going on my first RC cruise next month, would Voyager have something similar, I could see myself sitting on a warm chair looking out to sea around NZ's slightly chilly South Island.

 

Voyager does not. They do have a very large inside hot tub at the entrance to the gym. There are saunas and steam rooms in each locker room.

 

I've done the Persian Gardens on a few Celebrity ships and they are not all that impressive. I don't like the co-ed steam rooms. Who wants to go to a steam room in a bathing suit or a heavy terry robe? Defeats the purpose of sweating out all the salt that's in the food.

 

The Millenium class Celebrity ships have the Persian Gardens in a dark uninviting space. Don't even bother.

 

I would never pay to use the Persian Gardens. Waste of time and money. (went with a coupon on two ships) I much prefer the free steam rooms on RCI Voyager and smaller ships.