ADVERTORIAL The jewel in the heart of Krkonose Mountains, the Savoy Royal Hotel offers its guests not only a truly luxurious, modern accommodation but also a fantastic degustation restaurant. This sole five stars hotel in the Czech mountains mollycoddles its guests with a perfect relaxation. Wellness Centre in the Savoy Royal Hotel is carried in the spirit of soothing colours, relaxing scents of herbal and aromatic oils, pleasant melodies, private atmosphere and professional service. There are available a Jacuzzi whirlpool tub, a dry Finnish sauna, and the professional team of masseurs, which provides a wide variety of massages, is on stand by any time. Part of the wellness centre is also a club, where you can rest, relax on the ergonomic loungers and enjoy your favoured drink. Simply a splendid place for ultimate refreshment of body and mind!
Royal Wellness in the Savoy Royal Hotel Royal Wellness Spa at the Savoy Royal Hotel has as wellness manager Martin Hák (born 1977). He played sports, raced in downhill skiing and had played tennis since his childhood, later he began with the mountain bikes race. Professionally, he pursues a massage course since 1999. He is married and has 3 wonderful children and wonderful wife Lucy. How did you get into the wellness sphere? I graduated from the sportive gymnasium in Jilemnice where I had accomplished the massage course during the fourth year. After the graduation I started as a masseur a compulsory military service in the army sports club “Dukla Liberec”. It was for me a great experience. Before the end of the military service I got a proposal to go to massage the representation of biathlon, which offering I had accepted. I spent 7 years with the biathletes while I helped out also the representatives of cross-country skiing. In November 2010 I have received an offering to do a wellness manager of the Savoy Royal Hotel and I‘m really glad I accepted this chance. Do you have any foreign experience, internships, courses ....? Since I have massaged the top athlete for about 10 years, thus I spent the most of my time abroad. I have absolved several world championships around the world and I‘ve been to two Olympics, in Salt Lake City and Turino. Tell us what is Hawaiian and Ayurvedic massage based on that the hotel guests can also relish of? Hawaiian and Ayurvedic massage are quite different, yet both absolutely amazing. Hawaiian massage is wonderful in that you massage in the Hawaiian music rhythm, using the whole forearm, thereby simultaneously massage of a large area. Ayurvedic massage is 5000 years old Indian massage. It‘s massage of complete body. Massaged from head to tip toes, it takes about 120 minutes. This massage counteracts much de-toxic, because the whole body is poured the huge amount of sesame oil over.
You yourself are an expert on a specific type of massage or you are knower of entire Wellness offer? We provide in our wellness centre the really big number of massages. I can do all of them, but it is true that some of them I like more, the others less. I have two other masseurs in the wellness. Radek Pešina is an expert on lava stone massage and honey massage and these are not really my favourite ones. Bridget Fejtová can beautifully play with a facial and aroma massage. I think that we are quite complementary team. What is your favorite technique? I have several favourites, but the most popular is a regenerative massage where I use the points of reflexology and focus on neck and back. It‘s a massage where I am aware of its help from the client´s neck ache and back pain. It is excellent against migraines. Did appear in the wellness field some news, what now became the trendiest? The absolute novelty is the Tibetan massage. It is performed by the pouches that are filled with Dead Sea salts and small lava rocks. Pouches must be preheated and then kept warm. The entire body is then massaged with them. It‘s absolutely fantastic experience, which now every guest of Savoy Royal Hotel can try. What profession would you choose if you had not become a physiotherapist? To be honest, I do not know how to answer this question. The truth is that my dad wanted me to become a top athlete and he used to say that if I work hard I will get to the Olympics, what was always my dream anyway. The best part of it showed up when I came to tell him: „Dad, does it bother you if I go to the Olympics as a masseur instead of as an athlete?“ He was really happy at that moment and so was I.
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