There’s nothing like a bizarre spa treatment to get us going here at HotelChatter and today’s comes courtesy of the Taba Heights resort in Sinai, Egypt, which has announced the opening of a new salt cave that will be open to guests of all the hotels at the resort.

We have to admit we hadn’t heard of a salt cave before this (that probably makes us spa ingenues), but turns out it’s a health thing that goes way back, helping ailments such as:

Dermatological diseases, nervous system disorders, metabolic disturbances, digestive tract problems, underproduction of hyperthyroidism, heart disease and illnesses of the respiratory tract.

Let us preface this post by saying that we are not hotel snobs. We can take just as much pleasure in spending the night in a bamboo shack on the beach (more of that tomorrow) as we do checking out the latest fancypants hotel (although we’ll make sure we’re wearing full-cover, Damian Barr-style PJs in the shack – just to make sure of those sheets).

However, if a hotel is trading under a brand like, oh, say, Hilton, we do expect it to be a certain standard. And that standard is a little higher than a lobby that makes us want to run straight back to the airport:]]> juliab 2009-10-19T14:58:40-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/