Four things worth reading before you send a deposit. Written for someone booking from another state, with a fixed surgery date and not much time.
The shape of the first fortnight for BBL, tummy tuck and mommy makeover, and where recovery-house stay lengths come from. The most common booking mistake is too few nights.
The nightly rate is roughly two-thirds of the bill. Every other line item, itemised, plus three realistic totals — one of which shows the cheapest rate producing the highest cost.
Eleven warning signs, and eleven questions that get through a phone call. Written for the fact that you are choosing this sight unseen.
What facilities normally supply versus what you need to bring, the things people most wish they'd packed, and why you should budget for a second compression garment.
They are the four questions that actually decide a booking, in the order people hit them. How long am I away for; what will this really cost; is this place any good; and what do I need to bring. Everything else is downstream of those.
Two things you will not find here. We do not tell you how to recover — that is your surgeon's job, and a directory is a bad place to get clinical guidance. And we do not rank or recommend individual facilities, because we have not inspected any of them. What we can do is lay out what each one publishes, in a form you can compare. More on how this is put together →