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Award Winning Acqualina Resort & Spa in Miami Beach, South Florida

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL. (November 3, 2011) - The October 2011 issue of Andrew Harper’s exclusive Hideaway Report reveals the results of an annual survey of his readers’ favorite luxury hotels and resorts worldwide. Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach is an award-winning hotel in Miami Beach, FL that has been selected as one of the Top 20 Beach and Family Resorts winners in the 2011 Reader Survey. Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report is a notable resource for intelligence on luxury hotel and resort travel and is based on unbiased, firsthand research.

Spa Photo Tour: Casa de Sierra Nevada Spa Resort Culinary School Mexico

 

 

A cluster of historic buildings at the centre of the city, this charming Orient-Express hotel offers the ultimate Mexican destination vacation, spa and culinary experience.

 

The hotel has its own cooking school, Sazon, where you can learn to create traditional Mexican treats.  Sazon at Casa de Sierra Nevada is a Mexican cooking school and boutique, housed in a magnificent 18th century casa in the heart of San Miguel de Allende, a charming colonial town in the highlands of central Mexico. To savor the local cooking at leisure there is a choice of two exceptional restaurants.

 

Laja Spa at the Casa de Sierra Nevada, Mexico, pays tribute to the magnificent Laja River that flows through the mountains in the north and fills the San Miguel Lake.

 

San Miguel de Allende is located in Central Mexico. Mexico City which is 177 miles away. The nearby León Airport is 1 hour and 30 minutes away from the hotel. The Queretaro Airport is just 1 hour from the hotel.   Casa Sierra Nevada offers guests transportation from the airport. 

 

Casa de Sierra Nevada
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

"Never Diet Again" Program: November 2010, Mohonk Mountain House, NY

Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York has launched the Never Diet Again!  Welcoming Weight Loss and Wellness program which "puts you back in charge." Join Nina Smiley, Ph.D., for this program which replaces a deprivation (diet) model with life-enhancing empowerment—teaching you to make mindful choices based on meditation and visualization that lead to a healthy lifestyle and sustained weight loss. Forget about counting calories, managing fat grams, juggling complicated food combinations — so many rules and regulations end up “weighing” you down. Focus instead on welcoming weight loss and wellness, as you leave with a personal plan for skillful new habits.

2010 Dates:   November 5-8, 2010
Rates from $331 per person, per night

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The Spa at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York has been honored with numerous awards, including as one of the Top Ten Hotel Spas in Travel + Leisure magazine’s World’s Best Awards and as one of the “Top 25 Resort Spas in North America” by Condé Nast Traveler magazine. Organic Spa magazine named this Spa as one of the “Top 10 Green Spas and Resorts in the World.”

NINA SMILEY, Ph.D. graduated from Vassar College, and earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University. She is co-author of The Three Minute Mediator and the CD Mini-Meditations That Will Enhance Your Life. Nina taught psychology at the University of Maryland, directed public relations at the American Psychological Association, and was Associate Director of Research at Porter/Novelli, a marketing communications and public relations firm. She also was a member of New Roles in Society, an AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) research group on aging. Nina delights in sharing insights about meditation and wellness.

Blue Water Spa Raleigh NC to raffle off $10,000 in Spa Packages for Charity

RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Water Spa, a Raleigh NC Day Spa and Medical Spa, is celebrating 7 years in Raleigh with an anniversary party and Raleigh food drive. Guests who donate frozen turkeys or other food items will receive raffle tickets. One lucky winner will receive a $10,000 spa gift certificate for luxury spa services.

via www.prnewswire.com

Montage Laguna Beach offering a Special Holiday Season for Ages 2-12

Montage Laguna Beach, an oceanfront resort in California and the premier California stay spa for SpaIndex.com, will feature and exciting array of activities for children and families this holiday season, including Santa’s Workshops, Santa Tuck-ins with Milk & Cookies & Just-for-Children New Year’s Eve Party.

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Ultimate Spa Escapes: The Llao Llao Golf Resort & Spa in Patagonia, Argentina

Located in the Argentine Patagonia, the Llao Llao Golf Resort & Spa is an ecologic paradise. Perched on a small hill within Nahuel Huapi National Park the hotel lays amidst blue lakes, majestic Andean peaks, and colorful larch and cypress forests. The resort has recently opened a new wing - Moreno Lake wing - featuring 43 deluxe studios and suites with air conditioning, Jacuzzi, terrace, wide windows and panoramic views of the wonderful Patagonian landscape.

After the jump, a spa package and photo tour.

SpaFlyer Ultimate Spa Escape: The Kenwood Inn & Spa, California Wine Country

The Kenwood Inn & Spa invites you to experience the first premier Caudalie Vinotherapie Spa in the United States. Kenwood offer a full menu of exclusive treatments, combining the latest scientific discoveries involving vine and grape seed extracts. Rich in polyphenols, these extracts combat free radicals which are responsible for 80% of aging.

In each of its treatments, Kenwood use the Caudalie Laboratories range of products, initially shaped and tested at Les Sources de Caudalie in Bordeaux France. The Caudalie range founded by the pioneers of Vinotherapie was created by researchers and pharmacists and acclaimed by doctors around the world for their outstanding anti-oxidant properties.

The Caudalie Vinothérapie spa at Kenwood Inn and Spa was named one of the three best Spa Resorts in the world and our Sauvignon Shower Gel was chosen as one of the three best shower gels in the world.

After the jump, life among the grapes.

SpaFlyer Award Winning Spas: Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Austin Texas, named Texas' Leading Spa Resort

The 13th Annual World Travel Award winners for 2006 have been announced, and Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas was named Texas’ Leading Spa Resort.

“Travel professionals have the opportunity to visit some of the best properties in the world,” said G. Michael Thomas, President and COO of Barton Creek Resort & Spa. “Barton Creek is honored and very proud to receive this award from industry professionals who are accustomed to the very best services and accommodations.”

Mobil 2005 Award-Winning Spas