From 2 hoursfrom ₺2,900
Sanctuary Days
Four ways to spend longer in the house, from a thermal afternoon to our full day with massage, facial and lunch in the tea room.
Day spa · Kuzguncuk, İstanbul
Slow hours in a stone house by the Bosphorus.
Massage, facials and an Istanbul bath ritual in a restored 1890s house on the Asian shore, with a garden plunge pool, a warm marble room and linden tea from the tree by the door.
Garden plunge pool & cedar sauna
Warm marble room for the kese ritual
Ten minutes from the Üsküdar ferry
Welcome to Aethel
The house was built in 1892 for a doctor and his family. We kept the stone walls, the marble sinks and the linden tree, and added the quiet. Come for an hour, or stay until the ferries light up.
Treatments
Choose by how you want to leave.
Eight treatments, each with a clear idea behind it. Every booking includes the warm marble room, the sauna and tea in the garden.
Aethel Signature Massage
Our full-body massage, shaped by two questions: where are you holding it, and how much pressure do you really like?
₺7,400View
Warm Stone Massage
Smooth basalt stones, heated in water, used as an extension of the therapist’s hands to melt stubborn muscle.
₺6,600View
Deep Release Massage
Slow, firm work for desk shoulders, runners’ calves and the knot that has been under your shoulder blade since spring.
₺5,600View
Lymphatic Drainage
A light, rhythmic massage that eases puffiness after long flights, hot weeks and salty dinners.
₺5,200View
The house
Four floors, one pace.
Each room in Aethel has a single job, and none of them has a television.
- iThe garden & plunge poolCold water under the linden tree, loungers in the shade.
- iiThe warm marble roomHeated marble slab, copper bowls and the kese ritual.
- iiiFive treatment roomsIncluding one double room for two by the window.
- ivThe roof studioSound baths and slow movement, with a strip of Bosphorus view.
More time
Stay for the afternoon.
Small groupsfrom ₺1,200
Classes & sound baths
Sound baths on Tuesday and Friday evenings, slow movement three mornings a week and a longer sound evening each full moon.
Guest notes
Left in our visitors’ book.
“I came for the kese and stayed four hours. The warm marble room is the quietest place I have found in this city.”
“Booked the stone massage after a long-haul flight. Slept like a stone that night too.”
“They actually asked how much pressure I like, and then listened. That never happens.”
Membership
A standing appointment with yourself.
From ₺4,200 a month: a treatment every month, the thermal rooms whenever you like and a place in the classes. Most of our members live within twenty minutes of Kuzguncuk; some come across on the ferry every Saturday.
Visit
Ten minutes from the Üsküdar ferry.
Two streets back from the shore road, between Kuzguncuk’s wooden houses and its old market garden. Close the door behind you and the city drops away.
- AddressAethel House, İcadiye Caddesi, Kuzguncuk, 34674 Üsküdar
- Opening hours
Opening hours Monday – Thursday 09:00 – 21:00 Friday – Saturday 09:00 – 22:00 Sunday 10:00 – 20:00 - Getting hereTen minutes by taxi from the Üsküdar ferry, or a thirty-minute walk along the water. Valet on İcadiye Caddesi from 11:00.
- Call or message+90 000 000 00 00 · WhatsApp
Book
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Tell us what you would like and when. We confirm by WhatsApp, phone or email within two hours.