Spa treatment: Keep calm and get a massage

Nothing goes as well with a hangover as a few hours in the salon.

An hour or two in the hands of someone whose sole purpose in life is to pamper you is the perfect antidote to the toxins raging around your body. They smell like heaven, too.

WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED

Toast & Co

Professing to make you beautiful while revitalising, energising and tantalising your entire being, Toast & Co offers all the usual suspects from manicures and pedicures, spray-tanning, brow- and lash-grooming (and extensions), waxing (avoid when hungover), massages and facials.

But their pièce de résistance is undeniably the Team Dr Joseph treatments. This facial is more of an experience than the usual scrub, rub and squeeze.

• 54 Buckingham Avenue, Craighall Park, 011-325-5184 or 082-054-6751

IN THE WILD

Woodlands Centre for Conscious Living

The worst hangovers require a road trip to prevent them from setting up a mosh pit in your skull.

Take yours to the recently re-launched Woodlands Conscious Living Centre. On the banks of the Crocodile River in Muldersdrift, the spa overlooks the little bit of nature you can still find in Johannesburg. Go for a classic Swedish massage, or the Deep Tissue if you really want to detox. It also offers reflexology, yoga and life-counselling.

• 29 Driefontein Road Muldersdrift, Cradle of Humankind, 010-010-5026

INNER CITY LUXE

Luxe Beauty Salon

The well-trained staff give one of the best full-body massages in Johannesburg. They have a winter special guaranteed to warm you up - a hot stone pedi for R250.

• Shop 9B, 4th Avenue, Parkhurst, 011-447-6922

JUST MOVE IN

Brookdale Health Hydro

Health, wellness, relaxation and loads of peace and quiet are on the menu with endless pampering at Brookdale Health Hydro in Nottingham Road, KwaZulu-Natal.

Alcohol and caffeine are off limits but breakfast is hearty and the salads make up for your loss.

• Nottingham Road Post Office, Old Main Road, Nottingham Road, 033-266-6208