Orlando Sentinel

Orlando salon’s one-of-a-kind Turkish bath springs from owner’s childhood memory

When Happy Farshid’s father took him to a Turkish bath more than fifty years ago in their home country of Iran, he unknowingly planted in his son’s mind the seed of a future business venture in the ...
Bustle

I Was Beaten With Oak Leaves To Exfoliate My Skin

My first summer in New York City was brutally hot, especially since I refused to get an air conditioner for my tiny bedroom in the East Village: My boyfriend came down from Boston to visit me one ...
Houston Chronicle

Soothing Turkish bath provides an experience to remember

ISTANBUL -- The gray marble cavern is filled with men. Half-naked men. Men with towels looped so loosely about their waists they might plummet at any instant. And that's nothing to anticipate, by the ...
The Ledger

Childhood Trip to Turkish Bath Yields an Orlando Business

When Happy Farshid's father took him to a Turkish bath more than 50 years ago in their home country of Iran, he unknowingly planted in his son's mind the seed of a future business venture in the ...
The New York Times

TURKISH BATHS IN A BOX; That Is the Way Some Nice Girls Take Them Occasionally. IT ONLY COSTS A QUARTER Rain Baths and Hydriatric Treatment Also Given at the Riverside Baths on ...

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Forbes

7 Signature Wellness Treatments With A Sense Of Place

Increasingly, travelers are selecting vacation destinations that not only provide opportunities to enhance their health and emotional well-being but that also offer a “sense of place.” According to a ...