Atlantis Paradise Island spa: Mandara’s prices, the thermal pass and who may go

The resort’s spa page announces that Mandara has reopened after a transformation «inspired by the serenity and depths of the ocean», its colours running from pale coast to deep blue. Mandara’s own page gives the measures: 30,000 square feet, 28 treatment rooms, couples’ villas with a soaking tub and a private shower, wet rooms, and a suite built round a bed of amber and quartz crystal. A new space, The Gallery by Antonius Roberts, shows original work by the Bahamian artist. Serenity Cove, a private spa suite of 1,620 square feet, is meant for bridal parties and small gatherings.

Mandara speaks of a Balinese heritage, the island is Bahamian, and the brochure keeps both. The Balinese massage, all long strokes and thumb pressure, starts at $220 for 60 minutes, $260 for 75 and $300 for 90. The Bahamas Botanical massage costs the same and is mixed to order from island plants: soursop leaf, fever grass and hibiscus to calm; feather leaf, peppermint and neem to wake; sandalwood, grapefruit, rosemary and 5 finger leaf against inflammation. A Swedish massage is the least dear, from $200, $240 and $280; deep tissue, the coconut poultice and the Fire & Ice hot stone each start at $230, $270 and $310. A couples’ massage is priced for 2, from $420.

The crystal bed has treatments of its own. The Hot Mineral Body Boost and the Poultice-Powered Muscle Release, 75 minutes each, start at $290; a sound bath with sound bowls on the same bed is $160, for 30 minutes on the brochure and 35 on Mandara’s page. Facials are by Elemis. The Mandara Ultimate Facial, which uses 6 BIOTEC technologies, from ultrasound and microcurrent to LED light, starts at $270 for an hour and $350 for 90 minutes; the plainer Superfood Pro-Radiance begins at $210. The Bahamian Bush Bath, 30 minutes in a tub of soursop, feather leaf, cinnamon, orange and rose, is $125.

The water rooms are what the menu calls Taking of the Waters. Women and men have their own, reached from the changing rooms, each with a hydrotherapy pool, a cold plunge, a steam room and a sauna; the women’s adds a room scented for aromatherapy, the men’s a lounge with a television. Any spa service opens them at no charge. Without one they are sold by the day: $50 for a single day, $85 for 2, $110 for 3, $125 for 4. All of this is the brochure of October 2025; the resort’s page for the reopened spa speaks of steam, sauna and cold plunge, and mentions neither a hydrotherapy pool nor the aromatherapy room or the lounge.

Read the small print before the total. The brochure is a file created on 27 October 2025, and guests’ reviews were still describing building works at the spa in February 2026; the resort’s page, which says the spa has reopened, links to it all the same. Its prices include Value Added Tax, and a 20% service charge is put on the bill in place of a gratuity; the brochure says the therapist receives all of it. Its figures are «base rates» that may go up with the time and date. The booking site shows most treatments one eleventh lower, by our arithmetic: the Balinese hour at $200.00 against the brochure’s $220, the Swedish at $181.82 against $200. Some do not follow: the Fire & Ice hour is $210.00 online against $230, and the couples’ massage $420 on both. Neither page explains the gap, so take the brochure as the figure to budget and the spa desk as the one to confirm.

The reopened spa has a clinic as well as a salon. Under Medi-Spa the resort lists Dysport, Restylane, microneedling and drips; on the booking site a microneedling session of 30 minutes is $450, a Glow or Hydrate drip $300 and the NAD+ drip $1,200. In the salon a haircut and style starts at $95, a man’s cut is $60 and a classic manicure starts at $50. The Fitness Center, a separate 15,000 square feet nearby, lists classes at no charge, sunrise yoga and a bootcamp among them, and others at $22.73.

Guests who wrote about the spa on Google this year split by date. During the works, a review of February 2026 tells of paying over $300 for a massage and finding the sauna and plunge pool out of use; the resort later offered a partial refund, the writer added. Since then one guest, in June 2026, called it the best Swedish massage they had ever had and the spa «beautiful and tranquil»; another, in July 2026, counted the spa a highlight of the trip and praised a therapist attentive to their comfort from start to finish.

The spa at The Ocean Club, also on Paradise Island, is the small one: 8 villas, each with a garden and an outdoor bath, on the same 10am to 6pm day. At Baha Mar, in Nassau, ESPA matches Mandara’s 30,000 square feet and keeps the longest hours of the 3, and Sense is the Rosewood’s spa and salon.