Thermal Spa on Joy?

[TexasCruiser84]

Just off the Escape and absolutely loved the Thermal Spa. Does the Mandara Spa on Joy have a thermal spa like Escape? If not, is there a basic steam room/sauna available onboard? Thanks!

[zqvol]

I looked at the deck plans and cannot find one on Joy. I can find the spa, but no indication that the Thermal suite exists. I find that to be strange, hopefully someone will correct me.

[BirdTravels]

Just off the Escape and absolutely loved the Thermal Spa. Does the Mandara Spa on Joy have a thermal spa like Escape? If not, is there a basic steam room/sauna available onboard? Thanks!

No thermal suite on the Joy.

[rtkenmore]

No thermal suite.. Only spa rooms for services.

[UFMOM]

Good to know. Love the thermal suite, so there will be no Joy for me. Not when I can book one of the other ships with one.

 

 

Mary Ann

[PhillyTravelBug]

Good to know. Love the thermal suite, so there will be no Joy for me. Not when I can book one of the other ships with one.

 

 

Mary Ann

 

Same here. I’m focused on doing the bliss or perhaps sailing on Princess.

[Georgia_Peaches]

No thermal suite.. Only spa rooms for services.

I'm literally shocked to learn this about Joy. Was just about to book a Mexican Rivera cruise on Joy for next November. I thought Joy and Bliss were sister ships. (I'm fairly new to NCL so I may have the sister ships confused.) Why would NCL build a newer ship with no thermal suite? especially when older ships have them...so disappointed.

 

Now I understand why I didn't see any spa staterooms like the Haven Spa Suite or spa mini-suite.

Edited September 19, 2018 by Georgia_Peaches

[BirdTravels]

I'm literally shocked to learn this about Joy. Was just about to book a Mexican Rivera cruise on Joy for next November. I thought Joy and Bliss were sister ships. (I'm fairly new to NCL so I may have the sister ships confused.) Why would NCL build a newer ship with no thermal suite? especially when older ships have them...so disappointed.

Because the ship was built for the Chinese market who are not spa people. During the refit, they will expand the spa area for treatments, but don't have the capability of dropping in an entire thermal suite.

[Grandmafreddie]

The joy is going into dry dock to make it more like the bliss When is the question

It may include a thermal spa so I was told

[BirdTravels]

The joy is going into dry dock to make it more like the bliss When is the question

It may include a thermal spa so I was told

No thermal suite on the Joy.

[rtkenmore]

The joy is going into dry dock to make it more like the bliss When is the question

It may include a thermal spa so I was told

 

Deck plans already released. No thermal spas.

[Kathy241950]

I just booked the Joy for the Panama Canal next October. It looks like they added the Mandarin Spa and everything else the Bliss has. I was on the Bliss Alaska Cruise this September. Loved, loved, loved the Spa. 

[Sauer-kraut]

2 minutes ago, Kathy241950 said:

I just booked the Joy for the Panama Canal next October. It looks like they added the Mandarin Spa and everything else the Bliss has. I was on the Bliss Alaska Cruise this September. Loved, loved, loved the Spa. 

 

They will have a Mandara Spa, but its only for treatments there is no thermal suite. 

[Teacherloves2Cruise]

We know there will be a spa for treatments. Will they have lockers and single gender sauna and steam like the older ships did? Or nothing at all?

[MHKBCrusin]

We have had some people tell us there is a thermal suite and others tell us there isn't ... like others commenting here, we are not interested in it if there is no "real" thermal suite like on the other Breakaway Class and above ships.

[TexasCruiser84]

Just now, MHKBCrusin said:

We have had some people tell us there is a thermal suite and others tell us there isn't ... like others commenting here, we are not interested in it if there is no "real" thermal suite like on the other Breakaway Class and above ships.

Was just on the Joy, no thermal suite. There is a steam room and a sauna that spa customers may access on the day of their service, and I was told it must be a “signature service” which is denoted by an asterisk type symbol on the spa menu. 

[MHKBCrusin]

Just now, TexasCruiser84 said:

Was just on the Joy, no thermal suite. There is a steam room and a sauna that spa customers may access on the day of their service, and I was told it must be a “signature service” which is denoted by an asterisk type symbol on the spa menu. 

Thanks for the info ... I've seen some facebook posts saying otherwise but good to hear from someone who has actually been on her. No Joy for us then. We only cruise on the smaller ships if the itinerary is irresistible because of the lack of the full thermal suites. Since the Joy won't be making any trips we can't get on the others there is no longer a question about cruising with her.