The World’s Best Massages for Couples

If you go on a romantic getaway to Jamaica, you may as well celebrate your undying bond by getting wrapped up in a cocoon together. At the all-inclusive resort’s Millé Spa, you can have the 100-minute “Jamaican Cocoon Ritual for Two.” It’s not a literal cocoon, but it feels pretty great to get scrubbed with watermelon salt and then painted all over with a lemongrass, mint and clove mask so you’ll “feel special and delicate” (spa director’s words). Millé Spa has other cool couples’ treatments as well, including one with a pink quartz face massage that engages the reflexology points, and another where you hold hands and meditate together.

At this the Costa Rican hot springs resort, where the water is warmed by the magma from Arenal Volcano, book the 105-minute “Idyllic Couple’s Massage,” which takes place in an open-air bungalow in the jungle. Your therapist will chant about love to you in the regional language, Maleku (feel free to join her), as overhead monkeys howl in the trees. Post-chanting, hop in a milk-and-sea-algae bath with your honey, sip champagne and snack on locally sourced fresh fruit. At Tabacón, it seems that no one ever gets dressed. You’ll kick around in your bathrobe day and night, easing that transition from massage to real life.

Even if you’ve never made vows, you’ll dig the “Vow Renewal Ritual” at the Ohtli Spa. The treatment is (intentional pun) a commitment—two hours and 50 minutes to be exact. First, the therapist will wash your feet in warm water sprinkled with flower petals. Then hit the steam room, enjoy a sea-salt body scrub and relish your obsidian-stone massage. The vow-renewal ritual part involves getting your hands tied to your partner’s with ribbon (red, to signify infinite love, of course). Once you’re untied, hit the private couple’s Jacuzzi, then take home your party favour: a heart-shaped obsidian stone. marriott.com

At Kai en Ciel Spa, “The Alchemy of Two—A Romantic Ritual for Couples” is designed to let couples deeply “give and receive.” The 110-minute treatment starts in a hot tub sprinkled with gender-specific oils (his contains amber essential oil, hers contains jasmine essential oil). While soaking, you’ll take turns reading each other love poetry, and feed each other homemade chocolates. Dry off and move on to your massages, delivered with Tantra Vibrational Oil, meant to “balance the male and female energies.” jademountain.com

“The Ultimate Romance” is a three-hour and 55-minute treatment that you and your one true love can have any time you both have three hours and 55 minutes to spare at the same time. The package includes, among other things, a romantic jade-stone massage, a sensual salt scrub, a champagne bath and his-and-her bathrobes to take home. larchmontsanctuary.com

If you’re into hot wax, the 90-minute Beeswax & Soy Couples Massage at Conrad SPA is for you. All spa treatments are inspired by Colombian aboriginal tribal beliefs in earth, water, sun and moon as healing energies. This sexy, waxy massage is “moon”-based, intended to make you and your person feel more connected. Your therapists will hold soy-extract-and-natural-beeswax candles over your bodies and drip away. conradcartagena.com

Although billed as a couples-focused day spa, you don’t have to be limited to a couple’s massage. Grab your two favourite people and enjoy the two hour, 40-minute “Thrupple’s Art 3 Person Getaway Plus.” You’ll get three therapists, body mud, a salt scrub, a sauna, a kitchenette and dining area for an intimate meal and, at the end, some rest time in the cuddle loft. littlereddayspa.com