Set in a large private garden, the hotel is a 10-minute taxi ride from the city centre and has a sauna on site.
The lush tropical garden also has a small pool, while on the top floor there is a spa with hamman, sauna and massage rooms.
The award-winning complex is an astonishing 75,000m² in total, including numerous indoor and outdoor pools of varying ambience, depth, size, temperature and salinity; a vast sauna area; several restaurants and bars; and space to lounge inside and out.
Round off a shopping spree with a visit to the tower's communal spa and sauna, or just sit back on your balcony and enjoy that awesome view.
As well as three sleek double bedrooms, a large open-plan living area and bar, it has its own DJ booth and rooftop terrace with a sauna and pool – perfect for taking in the views of Rio's twin peaks (Dois Irmãos) with a Sundowner.
But all this effort took it out of him; he ended his half hour clammy and pale, like he'd been possessed by a ghoul that had forced him to do star jumps in a sauna.
Sensible use is likely to do more good than harm but sweating heavily can make you feel faint so do get up slowly when leaving a sauna.
The five bedrooms are all large, and there's a home cinema, a sauna and a gym.
At the spa, large successful men loll in the sauna like seals, exchanging gossip.
The air underneath them is stagnant, as in a sauna, but their foliage is the only available shade.Just as the heat threatened to overwhelm this correspondent, the woman in the group broke into a slow Mexican song, which somehow helped.
IT MIGHT be the endless pine forests, the locals beating themselves with birch twigs in the sauna or the odd notion of golfing in the snow.
