Please spare me from those spas
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Shock news for Britain's booming spa culture! Condé Nast Traveller has just published its Gold List 2008 and only one UK spa made the top 10 best in the world, scraping in at number nine. The rest are all, unsurprisingly, in places such as Mexico, Malaysia and the Maldives.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: February 10, 2008
Lovely luxury hotel in Estonia
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I'm standing next to a grand piano in a candlelit room singing backing vocals, while an Estonian man in a white towelling bathrobe and slippers serenades his fiancee. Imre, the hotel owner, is playing the piano, while my friend Carole and I fill in with the harmonies. I have no idea how this happened. And from the bewildered look on the fiancee's face, neither has she.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: October 03, 2006
New holiday and new you
Features
Some of the most relaxing spa resorts on Earth
Source: scenta
Date Published: May 09, 2006
Ayush Wellness Spa, Hotel de France
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St Saviour's Road, St Helier, Jersey (01534 614171; www.ayushspa.com)
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: July 30, 2007
Spa offers spiritual calm in the heart of Manhattan
Features
The simplest way to describe descending from the bedlam of Broadway into the oasis of eastern promise that is the new Chopra spa is this: you go from 'Omigod!' to 'Om' in the twinkling of your third eye.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 17, 2005
Golf Spa
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Book yourself in for the Golf Facial (no irons required)
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 25, 2005
Sun and spa but without the jet lag
Features
It's the middle of winter and I've got a bad dose of SAD. My skin is the colour of whey and I'm feeling distinctly below par. Drastic measures are called for. I scan the internet and gaze at websites of spas in Thailand and the Indian Ocean promising 'rejuvenation' with pictures of women in white linen pyjamas sitting in the lotus position. But I've only got a week and quite frankly, I think the 11-hour flight and ensuing jet lag might be counterproductive to my quest for rejuvenation.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 23, 2008
