Massage and Spa in Al Barsha

On the rooftop floor of the Grand Excelsior Hotel Al Barsha, in Al Barsha 1, a short drive from Mall of the Emirates. Enter through the hotel lobby and take the lift to the top floor; the spa is signposted from the lift landing. The address on our Google listing is the hotel address, so a map pin will bring you to the right building rather than to a service entrance. Reception has its own direct line and its own WhatsApp, so if you are already nearby and cannot see the entrance, a message reaches the people who are actually standing in the building rather than a central desk elsewhere in the city. The branch opens at 10:00 and takes guests until 1 am, seven days a week, and the phone number on this page rings that desk and no other. If you are travelling from Barsha Heights or Al Barsha South, the hotel is the one on the main road rather than inside the residential blocks.

All six massages on our menu: European Aromatherapy and Purifying Swedish from 500 AED for sixty minutes, Deep Muscle, Lava Shell and Hot Stone from 600 AED, and the Four Hands Massage from 800 AED. Every one of those costs exactly what it costs at Bur Dubai, with 5% VAT added at reception; DIFC prints its own list with VAT already inside the figures. What Al Barsha cannot offer is the hammam. There is no heated hammam room at this branch, so the Moroccan Bath and the Royal Hammam package are not on the list here. The bath is booked at Bur Dubai or DIFC instead, the Royal Hammam package at Bur Dubai only. We would rather tell you that on this page than have you drive to Al Barsha 1 for a treatment the branch cannot run. Of the two, DIFC is the closer alternative if you are heading along Sheikh Zayed Road, and Bur Dubai is the one to pick from the Mankhool side.

Reception takes guests until 1 am, seven days a week including public holidays, which is an hour later than our Bur Dubai and DIFC branches. The appointment has to finish by closing rather than start at it, so a sixty minute session needs to begin by midnight and a two hour session by 23:00. Late bookings are common here and the branch is used to them. That said, evenings are also when it is busiest, so a message ahead is more reliable than turning up: the branch answers its own WhatsApp line and reception can tell you in a minute what is genuinely free that night. Opening hours do not change at weekends, though they can shift during Ramadan, so a short message before travelling is sensible in that period. Reception also answers Telegram if that is easier than WhatsApp for you.

Yes, on the two treatments they cover. Book a start time between 10:00 and 15:00 and the European Aromatherapy and Purifying Swedish massages drop to 400 AED for sixty minutes, 550 for ninety and 700 for two hours, against 500, 700 and 800 at full price. There is no code and nothing to sign up for; the rate is read from your start time. The Deep Muscle, Lava Shell, Hot Stone and Four Hands massages are charged at full price whatever hour you book. The Early Bird rate also covers the Moroccan Bath at Bur Dubai and DIFC and the Royal Hammam package at DIFC, but since Al Barsha has no hammam room, neither applies here. All prices are subject to 5% VAT, added at reception rather than built into the figures shown here. Tell reception your preferred start time when you message and they will confirm which rate applies before you travel.