What I was offered was the Indoceane Experience, a multi-sensory relaxation therapy created by beauty company Thalgo, which promises to take my senses to the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, China and back in 120 minutes.
I totally bought in because I was in desperate need of a holiday and my annual leave was still some weeks away.
The $280 treatment starts with a "tri-bathing ritual" and two therapists, Susanna Cho and Seyoung Kim, got the water in the right heated temperature under the spa's snail shower.
"After shower, splash yourself with ice from the ice machine to open pores and increase circulation," therapist Kim said before leaving the room.
This ritual is usually rounded off at the five element herbal steam room to bring the body into balance pre-treatment, but I am convinced my body was more than ready for the treatment.
The treatment room, with two massage beds and a large mosaic bath, is more like a private suite.
Kim starts the treatment with a sweet and savoury body scrub, starting out gently and increasing in pressure as she went along.
She asked if the pressure is all right, and I told her the only problem was that she was getting me too relaxed and if I drifted into dreamland, the review of the treatment will just say, "I came, I slept, I left".
Scrub is over and she prepares a milk bath.
"This is what Egyptians do, soak and you will have skin as smooth as Cleopatra," Kim said, as she handed me a luxurious Chuan spa bath-robe and towel for use after the bath.
"Maybe in my dreams," I thought.
But the 20 minutes of silent milk soaking in the mosaic bath is truly therapeutic.
Kim comes back in and begins the next stage of the journey, a two-step massage that combines oriental kneading and Japanese percussion techniques.
I slipped out of the robe and got back to the table for the next phase.
Kim tells me she's from South Korea and has been a therapist since she left school. She explained she was trained in different techniques, and was trained in the "Qi-balm vitalisation and Indoceane oil massage" method here at Cordis.
"It is good because it combines the best of all the different massage techniques," she said.
The 60 relaxing minutes flew by and soon I was asked to roll over, Kim then spread some fragrant cream all over me and wrapped me up in towels like a kebab. As I lay there in the cocoon, Kim started working on my scalp and head.
The brochure said the fragrant body wrap would leave you "in a state of total relaxation and bliss", and I must say it is not too far wrong.
All too soon, the treatment had to come to an end. The experience was pampering at its ultimate best.
I feel refreshed from the inside out - but as with any good holiday or massage, I'm ever ready for another one.
