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Saffire-Freycinet, which from the air resembles a stingray, is located on Tasmania’s temperate, unspoiled east coast, about a 30-minute flight from Hobart (or about 3-4 hours in the car). There are three room categories: Deluxe, Luxury and Premium, and each room comes with a host of goodies including meals at its restaurant, Palate, and organized activities.

However, we were most interested to hear about the spa because it’s all about the combination of “the luxury and energy of precious jewels,” and “the energy and purity of local components,” which it melds in its “Jewel Collection” of treatments including:

· The Gold Stem Facial combining gold particle nano-technology with plant stem cell science to restore and lift skin.

· The Diamond Facial, an intensive anti-ageing facial using Natura Bisse Diamond formula to lift and firm after a triple exfoliation.

· The Diamond Magnetic Ritual to alleviate the stress of daily environmental “aggressions” by balancing your chakras before coating your face in a diamond magnotherapy luminous mask which “whisks away undesirable residues.”

· The Sapphire Ritual places a sapphire-blue topaz, a traditional “symbol of wisdom and clarity,” on your forehead to balance your energy field, and “remind your skin of its own cellular wisdom and natural luminosity.”

· The Saffire Experience, which is an enlivening body brush and exfoliating scrub mask that stimulates lymphatic flow. Then you are coated in a warm balm and wrapped in silk sheets for a scalp massage before a lymphatic drainage massage, and finishing up with Saffire’s Sapphire Dust body crème, which was developed specifically for the resort to “nourish your skin, clarify and balance your chakras.”

No wonder they can afford to use all those precious ores and minerals. Rates at Saffire start at $1,250 per night and include a single 60-minute spa treatment (though you can add on extras).