Rainy Day
Organic Spa Treatments at Tao Day Spa
Steveston's quietly famous little spa, voted best in Richmond seventeen years running, doing organic facials and Thai aromatherapy massage a block off the boardwalk.
Steveston Village
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Steveston's quietly famous little spa, voted best in Richmond seventeen years running, doing organic facials and Thai aromatherapy massage a block off the boardwalk.
Steveston Village
More infoTao occupies a small suite on Bayview Street, a block from the Steveston boardwalk, and has taken Richmond's best-spa vote seventeen years in a row without ever making much noise about it. The menu is properly organic rather than decoratively so: Eminence facials built on blueberry, pumpkin and arctic berry, alongside Thai aromatherapy massage and a hot herbal compress treatment that leaves you pleasantly useless. Rooms are booked one at a time, and there is no walk-in desk, so this is a planned stop rather than a wander-in one. They ask for four to six weeks of notice, which tells you exactly how well kept the secret is.
Book weeks out, because Tao takes appointments only and regularly runs four to six weeks ahead. Treatments land between sixty and ninety minutes: the classic organic facial, the Thai aromatherapy massage, or the hot herbal compress if the goal is to be entirely useless afterwards. Rooms are booked one at a time rather than side by side, so pick the same slot and reconvene on the boardwalk when you surface.
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