Bamboo Spa<\/a> owners and couple Harris and Princess Abigail Loninia have lived in New Zealand for 10 years, during which time they have enjoyed success with their massage day spa business.<\/p>\nThe Napier branch will be their 18th across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe building will be the first branch that we have in Hawke\u2019s Bay,\u201d Princess Abigail said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is going to be a spa. It is a place for relaxation and wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before opening, the building will undergo a renovation and fitout, including painting the exterior orange and black.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an iconic bungalow, and it will be [painted] orange, because Bamboo Spa is orange – so it will be different to what people are used to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Princess Abigail said the venue had plenty of space, good parking, high visibility along Marine Parade, and was close to cafes and restaurants.<\/p>\n
Harris said they had heard about the building\u2019s impressive history, and were excited to move in and serve locals and customers.<\/p>\n
They will get the keys next week.<\/p>\n
The couple hail from the Philippines and wanted to introduce Filipino traditional healing massage to NZ, a different form of massage than the likes of Thai or Swedish massage.<\/p>\n
Bamboo Spa Napier will be operated by a franchisee, who also runs the Palmerston North branch, the next closest branch.<\/p>\n
The owners of Pacifica, chef Jeremy Rameka and sommelier Natalie Bulman, moved to King Country last year and were planning to open a new six-seat restaurant<\/a> in the township of K\u0101kahi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bamboo Spa offers traditional Filipino massage, known as hilot massage. Bamboo Spa owners and couple Harris and Princess…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6726,15497,66936,1345,16569,185,35479,111,139,69,3272,6029,49042,2539,10270,213,61,3010,25809,1530,2963],"class_list":["post-264367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-become","tag-blue","tag-bungalow","tag-home","tag-iconic","tag-is","tag-napiers","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzs","tag-once","tag-orange","tag-restaurant","tag-restaurants","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-top","tag-turning","tag-years","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}