We went to Cağaloğlu Hamamı, which is 300 years old, and has hosted some of the most famous people in the world from Kaiser Wilhelm, to Harrison Ford and Cameron Diaz. It is a trip through history.
As you enter off the street, you can immediately smell the soap. And there is a large display of soap in a fountain at the front door.
It is listed as one of the top "1000 places to visit before die". I'm hoping we've managed to visit a few of these in our European travels.
You check in, and they assign you a changing room, where you slip out of your street cloths and into a little towel that you wrap around your waist. You also wear these amazingly uncomfortable awkward wood shoes that are an experience in themselves. From there you go to the steam/treatment room.
It is basically a large round dome shaped room, with water everywhere. I signed up for a massage, while Tony did the full massage/exfoliation treatment.
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