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The EPIC Hotel is No Longer Waiting to Exhale: The Spa is Now Open
OK, so the buzz down in Miami right now is all Super Bowl, all the time. But if this week of partying is just too much and you need to escape, you can do it without fleeing the city. Just head downtown, where the Exhale MindBody Spa at the EPIC Hotel is now open.
You may be familiar with Exhale from other hotels—including the Hotel Palomar in Dallas, the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, and the Gansevoort in New York. Their biggest claim to fame is their custom Core Fusion classes, but the spas also offer yoga and a full range of spa services.
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Andaz Spa Wants to Give You The Best 15 Minutes of Your Day
We’ve already told you about the rooms and the bar and the restaurant and the coffee in the lobby. Time to change gears and clue you into The SPA at Andaz Wall Street. It won’t take long—all you need is 15 minutes.
Forget Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame. This spa promises to give you “The Best 15 Minutes of Your Day.” Given the fast pace of the street it sits on, Andaz knows that most of its neighbors are too busy to indulge in an hour-long massage, so they offer express versions of their treatments—everything from manis and pedis to facials, scalp treatments, and massages.
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Vigilius Mountain Resort: An Eco-Spa at 4,921 Feet
Mentioning the Sudtirol often conjures up images of Swiss men in lederhosen merrily herding goats and making cheese to the doleful dirges of mountainside Alphorns droning in the distance. It is a land of fresh mountain air, green valleys, steep vineyards, and fresh spring-fed pools. What better place, then, for a high-altitude eco spa like the one at the Vigilius Mountain Resort and Eco Spa from Design Hotels.
Located about halfway between Innsbruck and Venice, Vigilius is 4,921 feet (or 1,500 meters) up on Vigiljoch peak in the craggy Dolomite Mountains. The closest town is a tiny town called Lana—though there’s an air strip about a half-hour away in Bolzano, so you can fly from Rome and Munich. Now, we’re all for getting to far-flung places, but the Vigilius even makes us wonder since it’s only accessible by cable car and…foot. That’s right, by foot. When you come to relax and get back to nature, though, the farther the better.
Even the architecture, designed by Matteo Thun, is dedicated to communing with nature in a “wooden house of modernity.” The glass-and-wood façade helps the building blend into its environment while mimicking the timbering of traditional Tyrolean structures. The wooden beams in the restaurant are over 300 years old, and the roofs are covered with turf and grass in an attempt at energy conservation and to blend in with the pristine surroundings.
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Bliss Out Instead of Bingeing Before the New Year at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach
Come January 1st, many of you will be atoning for a holiday spent bingeing on champagne, sweets, and other seasonal vices. Kick starting the new year on a healthy note is no easy feat, even for the most disciplined among us, so it's a good idea to start thinking about self-care before the allure of caviar and egg nog come calling.
Though Miami Beach is associated more with party culture than it is spa culture, Canyon Ranch Miami Beach is shifting the travel hotspot's focus with several healthy living packages.
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Little House on La Prairie at The Beverly Hills Hotel
To clarify, when we say "house" we're referring to poolside cabanas, and the prairie mentioned is luxury skin care line La Prairie. Both have a prominent place at The Beverly Hills Hotel, known as 90210's Pink Palace.
We often write about the towering, blush-toned local legend for good reason. Built in 1912, BHH has kept its reputation while that of newer, trendy Sunset Boulevard hotels has slid downhill. What's more, we always find something new to experience on repeat visits, whether dining at The Polo Lounge or browsing designer goods at the gift store.
Yesterday afternoon we decided to try out a couple of La Prairie treatments at the hotel's outdoor spa cabanas. Poor, poor us, right? Since LA is blessed with near year-round sunny weather, lying practically nude (albeit shaded from other guests) is a viable option for those that want a view of the aqua pool, palm trees, and maybe a glimpse of a celebrity visitor through a crack in the bushes. There were no sightings yesterday to speak of, but we did learn that sultry designer Tom Ford shares our soft spot for the hotel.
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No More Birch Beatings At Grand Hotel Stockholm's New Spa
OK so normally we wouldn’t be so excited by the idea of a “Nordic spa”. In our heads, Scandi beauty treatments scream naked saunas, self-flagellation with birch sticks and lots of snow. But we’re making an exception for the Grand Hotel in Stockholm which opened a subtly different “Nordic-inspired spa”, Raison d’Etre, yesterday.
Yes, they have the birch – harvested from local forests, don’t you know – but they do far more exciting stuff than beat you with it. The Be Rested package is a massage ad “hot birch pack” to make you sleep, while the Be Balanced treatment claims to “gently realign” your bones through the power of, um, mung bean pillows.
They’re pretty pricey – 2190 Kronor, or $318, apiece, but last two hours. And the website – which asks you questions like “How do you want to be today? Like a raindrop falling from the sky?” and “If you were a tree, what would you be?” – is really calling to us. And how idyllic does that pool look for a winter soak. Gimmicky, us? Never.
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The New Spa at The Parker Palm Springs Believes in a Good Stiff Drink
Heading down to the Parker Palm Springs for a relaxing weekend in the desert? It turns out there's more to do there than just lay by the pool and sip on cocktails. The hotel has just finished renovating their Palm Springs Yacht Club spa (PSYC) and it's not exactly what you would expect. Take a look at the spa's mission statement:
We believe in the American country club experience: mixed doubles, a long steam, and a stiff cocktail.
And indeed the new spa space makes access to a cocktail just as important as access to a heavy-handed masseuse.
The spa has created a new lounge with dark leather chairs, coffee tables and lit by candlelight with real treats available to guests (not a bowl of apples, they promise) and even shots of whiskey will be passed around. Well, that will certainly bring a "glow" to your face fast.
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Rich Teens Get Everything, Even Custom Spa Treatments at The Four Seasons
Some days we wake up and wish we were teens, don’t you? We could forget about the economic crisis and just worry about vampires and texting and when our parents were taking us on the next fancy vacation to buy our affection. OK, so if we were going to be teens, we’d have to be the Gossip Girl variety, able to throw debauched parties in our fabulous uptown pads, or jet off to exotic resorts at any second.
And if we were, like, to do that? We would totally book ourselves in for one of the new teen treatments offered by certain Four Seasons spas. Only, it’s so hard to choose!
* At the Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora we could get a Star Fruit Manicure.
* The Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai has a Wild Lime Hair Care treatment.
* The Four Seasons Resort Mauritius offers a Sunshine Soother Scrub.
* And at the Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara we can get a Teen Corrective Facial.
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No More Creepy Couples Massages at the Kempinski Dukes Palace
We’ve been itching to go to the fabulous-looking Kempinksi Dukes’ Palace in a 15th-century castle in Bruges since it opened, and every time we hear some more news about it, we get closer to opening up our wallets. This time it’s the new spa menu taking our fancy.
It’s using the French Thalgo line (nice) for some pretty well-priced treatments including a Detox (scrub, detox gel, sauna and massage, €85) for after you've gone overboard on the local chocolate, and the cozy-sounding Mother’s Cocoon (massage, facial and foot treatment, €140) for the preggers among you.
Best of all, they’re making an admirable break from the creepy couple’s massage – their Harmony for Two treatment (€120) is being sold to "mothers and daughters or friends".
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Antigua's New Sugar Ridge Has A Sweet Opening Deal
Picture a hotel called Sugar Ridge and you might imagine some place on the ridge of a hill bordered by sugar cane … and that's exactly what the new Sugar Ridge hotel in Antigua looks like. Four years after they started building (and no doubt a while after they had serious doubts whether building a hotel was the right thing to do at the moment) the Sugar Ridge is ready to open on December 1.
They're aiming for luxury and affordability, often a tricky combination, and the luxury includes the Sugar Club Spa – the first Aveda spa on Antigua. There are just 60 rooms but there are two restaurants, along with two swimming pools and a shopping arcade. It's also very close to the Jolly Harbor Marina which has an 18-hole golf course.
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You've Got to Commit to the 'Earth-Inspired' Spa Package at The Grand Del Mar
There’s nothing quite so therapeutic as getting in touch with nature…especially when that nature is a mudpack facial that cleanses your pores and hydrates your skin for a healthy, well-rested glow. Throw in a luxury hotel stay and some drinks by the pool, and we’re in. Catering to nature lovers just like us, The Grand Del Mar is offering a “Nature Renewal” spa package this fall.
Aiming to take advantage of the physical splendor of the neighboring Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, the sprawling but secluded Spanish-revival resort, which is located a half-hour north of San Diego, has put together an “earth-inspired” spa package to help guests unwind in the glories of nature. This isn’t about tofu and meditation, though.
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Hotel 1000's Spaahh Can Put You 'Back on the Market'
When Lilo and Samantha Ronson split back in April, our favorite rehabber dyed her hair back to trademark red and got a new tattoo. When Kim Kardashian parted ways from her football boyfriend, Reggie Bush late this summer, the raven-haired beauty hit the peroxide bottle and went blonde. (Both couples seem to be back on again. For now.)
So, whether you’re rebounding from a nasty divorce or an unforeseen break-up (our condolences, we know how much break-ups suck), Spaahh at Hotel 1000 is on hand with its Back on the Market Package to help wash that man (or woman) right out of your hair.
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