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Solace Spa at Banff Spring Hotel, Alberta, Canada
From the moment you first spy its turrets and gables rising above the emerald forest like an enchanted castle, you’ll fall in love with the Banff Springs Hotel. Conceived on a grand scale to stand up to the imposing mountains that surround it, the hotel today still offers the elegance, grace and quiet attention to detail the first distinguished it a century ago. The Banff Springs Hotel is located within the boundaries of a provincial park, containing the raging Bow Falls, and the unmatched beauty of glacial Lake Luise. But you don’t have to leave the hotel to see breathtaking scenery; you just have to look out your window.
Facilities: aerobic/golf/horseback riding/bicycling/cross country skiing/downhill skiing/boating/weight & cardiovascular equipment/fitness profile/indoor & outdoor pools/body treatments/massage.
La Quinta Resort and Spa, La Quinta, CA
The spa’s designers are creating a place like no other; an ultraluxurious environment featuring celestial showers, hydro tubs, wrap and massage studio, facial rooms, a skin-care and beauty salon, fitness studio, outdoor massage areas, and a relaxation garden. Guests will be able to enjoy super body scrubs, facials, aromatheraphy, underwater massage, and many other treatment, well as yoga tai chi, nutrition counseling, and golf resort, special golf and tennis stretching programs will be also offered.
For those of you unfamiliar with La Quinta, the resort is located among orange and lemon groves in the desert only a stone’s throw from palm Spring. There are many dinning chooses at La Quinta, including authentic Mexican fare, Mediterranean cuisine, and American cooking, meals are served indoors or alfresco, and health chooses are always available.
Facilities: aerobic/yoga & meditation/golf/tennis/tai chi/mineral pools/swimming pools/massage/skin care treatment/body treatments/fitness profile nutrition counseling/hydrotherapy/weight & cardiovascular equipment/beauty salon.
La Costa Resort & Spa, CA
La Costa’s renowned masseurs specialize specialize in traditional Swedish massage, reflexology, shiatsu, aromatheraphy, Reiki energy therapy, and European water treatments. Guests can also enjoy an herbal wrap, relax in the whirlpool bath, have a loofah treatment to exfoliate the surface skin, or be wrapped in moor mud or seaweed algae. Other favorites at La Costa are the aromatherapy facial using natural essential oils, and the hydrating treatments, particularly beneficial for dry and stress skin. To help guests to get and stay in weight training utilizing state-of-the-art equipment.
For meals, guests can choose from different elegant restaurants featuring superb spa cuisine.
Facilities: aerobics/yoga & meditation/golf/tennis/weight & cardiovascular equipment/fitness profile/ Outdoor pool/body treatments/massage/skin care treatments/beauty salon/hydrotherapy
The Phoenician and The Centre for Well-Being, AZ
High in the Sonoran Desert, where the rugged Arizona landscape reaches toward a sun-drenched sky, is where you’ll find the stunning Phoenician resort and its spa. The Centre offer and expansive menu of fitness classes, amenities, and treatments. In particular the Centre features Southwestern body treatments adapted from Native American cultures, using desert plants and minerals such as aloe vera, jojoba, clay, and sage. The Spa also features the Shirodhara Scalp Massage treatment, an ayurvedic therapy from India, which dates back 5,000years. It involves the pouring of warm oil drop by drop onto the center of the forehead, and then the delicate massaging of the oil in the scalp, neck, and shoulders.
Skin care treatments, including facials and body masks, are also specialties.
The Phoenicians pride itself on being a resort for the whole family. Adults can enjoy themselves with peace of mind knowing the children are being well supervised and having a great time at the Funcians Clubhouse.
Facilities: aerobics/yoga & meditation/golf/tennis/weight & cardiovascular equipment/fitness profile/Outdoor pool/body treatments/massage/skin care treatments/beauty salon/Horseback riding/bicycling
The Spa at Doral, FL
Guests at The Spa at Doral can relax in its formal gardens, take a mineral bath beneath a cascading waterfall, or stroll among its statuary, bubbling fountains, and hidden courtyards. Inspired by the great spas in Europe and designed to resemble a Tuscany villa, the Spa is located on the grounds of the famed Doral Golf Resort in Florida. The Spa at Doral offers an extensive array of face and body therapies using the finest products, administered by an expert staff. It isn’t all thermal body fango and anti-cellulite wrap; however, the Doral’s fitness programs are wide-ranging enough to accommodate the weekend jogger or professional athlete. One-on-one session are available in weight training, aqua exercise, stretching and flexibility, body sculpting-even tap dancing.
To go from the Spa to the Spa cuisine Restaurant, guests descend a grand staircase, once the showpiece of Paris department store. Italian favorites such as pizzas and pastas are prepared here with a healthy touch.
Facilities: aerobics/yoga & meditations/golf/tennis/bicycling/boating/weight & cardiovascular Equipment/fitness profile/indoor & outdoor pools/body treatments/massage/skin care Treatments/beauty salon/hydrotherapy.
The Spa International at Fisher Island, FL
When you arrive on Fisher Island, you are greeted by the call of free roaming peacocks and quails by the absence of automobiles, which are banned on the island. All traveling on the island winding roadways is done in golf cart. If you arrive by air, a stretch limousine will pick you up at the airport. The Fisher Island’s Spa International is housed in what was once a seaplane hanger belonging to Gar Wood, millionaire inventor and speedboat enthusiast. Guests’ accommodations are located in cottage and villas. Staying at the spa does not preclude exploring the island’s several excellent restaurants. By special arrangements, spa guests are able to take their spa cuisine lunch at a number of different venues.
Facilities: aerobics/yoga & medication/hiking/golf/tennis/weight & cardiovascular equipment/fitness Profile /indoor & outdoor pools/body treatments/massage/skin care treatments/Hydrotherapy/ beauty salon.