Ever-practical and stylish wet rooms have long been popular, but shower rooms are a new trend on the block, helping create that spa-like feel at home. While a bath is great for long candlelit ...

The latest iteration of this spa experience is the wet room, where the shower and other fixtures coexist in the same tiled room, with very little separation between them.

The Spa @ Clos Malverne, on a working wine farm in the Devon valley outside Stellenbosch, is offering packages that include a new “wet room” feature.

Residential wet rooms can be just one feature in an expensive, spa-like primary bathroom decked out with a sauna, toilet, vanity and a mini cold-plunge pool.

The wet room, she says, has become “an end-of-day or weekend wind-down, a place to [have] a wine glass by the tub”—one client even asked for a shelf for that very purpose.

Spa experts debate the design trends and how they can define a hotel. Suppliers Roundtable: Hotel spa wet rooms. hotel spa wet rooms. Hotelier Middle East.

What It Is: A dry flotation spa treatment allows you to float effortlessly to relax without getting wet. One 30-minute session is $135.

Get pampered in the brand new treatment rooms at the Mandarin Spa. By Crystal Lee.

The term wet room generally refers to a room-within-a-room in a primary (or large) bathroom. Think a water-resistant walk-in closet of sorts with stone or tile floors and walls, a drain in the floor, ...