What if your next airport layover was time to recover?

For Bastian Hospitality, whose founders include Ranjit Bindra, Kunal Jani and actor-entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty, Maison Twenty-Seven marks its entry into Ahmedabad. For Adani Airports, it is part of a larger attempt to make airports more than transit points and build spaces that can also attract local residents, business travellers and families.

Levo Longevity was born from a simple observation. The people behind the concept had travelled internationally and seen how wellness was evolving elsewhere, with facilities offering cold and hot plunges, biohacking, recovery therapies and technology-led approaches to wellbeing. They also noticed that people from Ahmedabad were travelling to Mumbai, Delhi and even overseas to access some of these experiences.

The question, then, was why Ahmedabad should not have something of its own.

“Longevity is something where people now have started seeing themselves not only living longer, but the main focus is living healthier,” says Hasit Patel, Operations Manager, Levo Longevity.

That distinction is at the heart of the place. It is not being positioned as another conventional spa, where the objective is primarily relaxation. Nor is it intended to operate purely as a clinical wellness facility. Instead, Maison Twenty-Seven brings together recovery, fitness, relaxation and technology, with doctors involved in determining which therapies are appropriate for an individual.

There are temperature-controlled hot and cold plunge pools, traditional sauna, red-light sauna, steam and individual therapy rooms. There are Western and Ayurvedic treatments, along with hot stone therapies. The facility also has dry flotation, photobiomodulation and cryotherapy.

The reclining system moves almost 90 degrees backwards, changing the body’s centre of gravity and creating an unusual sensation of weightlessness. The experience combines sound-based vibration with 12 programmed modules, each designed for a particular purpose. Once the session begins, the idea is to close your eyes, settle into the music and let the mind disengage from the day’s distractions.

“The moment you will relax, you don’t need to open your eyes. You have to be in a very calm zone and just go with the sleep itself,” explains Dr. Muskaan.

The intention is less about being entertained and more about allowing the mind to stop processing everything around it. Work, deadlines and other immediate stresses are temporarily pushed out of the picture.

Dry flotation works along similar lines. The body rests on an aqua bed that creates a sensation comparable to floating in the Dead Sea, accompanied by sound designed to encourage relaxation.

Then there is photobiomodulation, essentially a red-light therapy bed. A 30-minute session uses red light as part of a wellness protocol, with the centre’s team describing its applications in areas including skin and recovery. Here too, the treatment is not meant to be randomly picked off a menu. The in-house doctors assess the guest and determine what forms part of the individual’s circuit.

The same applies to the plunges, sauna and other therapies. The idea is to understand what a person needs before putting together a combination of treatments. That is particularly relevant when the target audience extends beyond the traditional wellness customer.

Patel sees younger professionals and Gen Z as an important part of the conversation because stress and burnout have become increasingly normalised in working life. The premise is that wellness cannot simply mean an occasional massage after an exhausting week. Sleep, recovery and understanding how the body responds to stress have become part of the larger discussion around health.

There is also a personal dimension to that argument for Patel. He says that after regularly taking some of the sessions himself, his sleep improved from an average of around four to five hours to close to seven or eight hours.

The bigger point, however, is that people are increasingly sleep deprived and are looking for ways to recover without necessarily disappearing for a week-long retreat. “We want people to now slow themselves down. And this is the place which will allow them to meet themselves,” he says.

That philosophy fits rather neatly with the location. Levo has shorter treatments of around 30 minutes for travellers who may simply want to unwind, deal with fatigue or recover from jet lag before continuing their journey. For those living in Ahmedabad, the expectation is different. The centre is designed for people to spend around three hours rather than rush in for one treatment and rush out.

Ahmedabad’s city centre does not have an abundance of large sites that can accommodate such a combination of facilities. The airport also gives Levo access to an audience that is already accustomed to spending time waiting, whether between flights or before a journey.

And Maison Twenty-Seven itself is designed around that idea of staying rather than simply passing through. Alongside the famous Bastian Hospitality’s dining offering are spaces for entertainment, co-working, gaming and family use, with the wider destination intended to work for both travellers and Ahmedabad residents.

It is this blurring of categories that makes the project interesting. The same address can be a place to have a meal, meet someone for work, spend time with family or quite literally, lie down and do nothing.

For Levo, however, the ambition extends beyond the airport. The founders see longevity becoming a much larger global wellness conversation, particularly as technology, diagnostics and personalised health become more accessible. The centre is also looking towards more advanced diagnostic capabilities that can assess aspects of posture, muscular alignment and physical imbalance in considerably greater detail. Levo’s Pranita Baveja and Jeet Adani, director of AAHL are said to be very hands-on when it comes to curating every single aspect at the property.

The larger vision is to move from a person simply choosing a treatment to understanding why a particular treatment may be useful to them.

That is also why the centre’s proposition sits somewhere between the traditional spa and clinical wellness. A spa may offer relaxation. A clinical centre may focus on specific health interventions. Maison Twenty-Seven wants to bring relaxation, recovery, fitness, technology and medical guidance into the same lifestyle conversation.

And perhaps that is where the idea of an airport wellness centre starts to make sense.

We have become accustomed to filling every spare minute. A layover becomes another opportunity to shop, eat, answer emails or scroll endlessly. Levo’s proposition is almost the opposite.

Use the spare hour to sleep.

Use the two-hour gap to recover.

Or, if you have three hours to spare, stop rushing altogether.

In a place designed around movement, Levo is selling something increasingly difficult to find: permission to slow down.