The best couples massage in NYC

Hop on the ferry for a romantic day trip to Governors Island at the new year-round luxury spa destination. Couples massages are offered in a private cabin—25 minutes for $200 or a 50-minute session for $390. When you’re not being massaged, enjoy QC’s saunas, relaxation rooms, pool and many more amenities to help you feel pampered.

You'd be lucky to get pampered in any of the five couples nooks at this spa, where extendable walls that normally divide individual treatment rooms open to reveal side-by-side beds. Candles and fresh flowers set the scene, but the real treat is booking the VIP Suite. This private room also comes with free access to the spa's six wet and dry lounges. As part of the Couples Aromatherapy Massage, your technicians will work with you to create a custom blend of ailment-curing essential oils—like peppermint for headache relief or lavender to alleviate insomnia—that will be used during your hour-long, Swedish-style rubdowns. To help you loosen up even more, the VIP Suite comes with complimentary champagne.

Prepare for a romantic escape with this spa’s unique couples packages. The Love 'n Lounge features custom aromatherapy massages followed by champagne, strawberries and chocolate fondue. The two hour Couple's Special starts with a soak in the jacuzzi. The Spa & Tea for Two includes massages, facials and a champagne tea for two.

Faina offers 15 different treatment options, from refreshing to decadent. Opt for the Royal Indulgence, a 3-hour and 15-minute session that includes a steam shower, body scrub, massage, deep pore facial cleansing, aromatherapy hand paraffin treatment, plus chocolate and champagne. 

A couples massage at this luxurious Williamsburg spa includes a day pass, so you can luxuriate in the various tubs, jacuzzis, steam room and saunas as you rejuvenate and relax together. BYO bathing suit and a change of clothes if you want to transition to a dinner date at Bathouse’s excellent in-house restaurant. It’s $340 on weekdays and $370 on weekends for 50 minutes. There’s also an 80-minute option for more.

Virtually no luxury is spared for this spa’s Enhanced Romantic Couples Getaway package. Start out with a champagne-and-fresh-fruit-fueled bubble bath in the Celebrity Room tub. You'll then be led into one of the wet treatment rooms for invigorating full-body scrubs and back to the massage tables for blissful, hour-long Korean rubdowns, combining pressure and stretching applied through a sheet with essential-oil-lubricated long, soothing strokes directly on the skin.

This spa specializes in couples, so you know you're in for a treat. Opt for a side-by-side 60-minute aromatherapy massage with relaxing lavender oil and either the traditional Swedish technique or deep-tissue work. Want to go all out? Spring for the Couple’s Royal Bath package which includes a massage, body scrub and a steaming, rose petal-strewn bath.

Based on the theory that water brings health, this Noho mainstay is outfitted with a popular water lounge that boasts subterranean pools, saunas, steam rooms and a three-and-a-half-story waterfall. Couples would be wise to spend a good while here to enjoy the facilities after enjoying a no-nonsense, completely relaxing massage.

This brand-new destination spa in Midwood, Brooklyn offers three floors of healing spaces inspired by, well, the world. Authentic banyas, Finnish saunas, Turkish and Moroccan hammams, cleansing Himalayan salt therapy, Japanese onsens, an infrared room and more are all available on-site, to use for two hours before or after your couples’ massage. Couples can book a variety of body treatments together in a private room, including a therapeutic massage, warm stone massage or maternity massage. Book a date at REN, the on-site wood-fired restaurant to cap off the outing. 

Rego Beauty Spa is beloved for its incredible massages, including its hot-stone, shiatsu, Swedish, Ayurvedic massages, for singles and couples. This high-demand spa is both affordable, clean and comfortable and has a friendly staff and receptionists.