Spa Types
Destination Spa Collections
Sometimes it's helpful to understand the different types of spas. The luxury spas within the Destination Hotels & Resorts Spa Collection represent resort and hotel spas, but there are many other types of spas you might want to consider trying as you become a spa aficionado.
Destination Spas
Destination spas offer a full-immersion spa experience in which all guests participate. These spas focus exclusively on lifestyle improvement, health enhancement, and self-renewal in the company of like-minded people. All-inclusive programs provide fitness activities, nutritious spa cuisine, various therapeutic spa and body treatments, educational classes, and often mind/body/spirit offerings to help you jump-start a new, more healthful lifestyle.
- Royal Palms
- L'Auberge Del Mar
- Miramonte Resort & Spa
- Estancia La Jolla® Hotel & Spa
- The Inn and Spa at Loretto
- Skamania Lodge
- Terranea Resort™
Eco-Spas
Eco-spas are set in a natural or protected area and have a major commitment to incorporating environmentally friendly practices, such as organic gardening, water conservation and ecological building design. These spas also encourage sensitivity to the natural environment and wildlife through education of spa-goers, and may also promote the well-being of local people and culture by preserving indigenous healing traditions and ingredients.
Day Spas
Day spas offer a simple, flexible way to incorporate spa treatments into your everyday life. Offering massages, facials and body wraps that can last an hour, or spa packages that can last up to a whole day, day spas can be freestanding or connected to health clubs, hotels or department stores.
Resort and Hotel Spas
Resort and hotel spas, like those featured in the Destination Hotels & Resorts Spa Collection, offer a full-service spa as well as a wide variety of dining options and recreational facilities. Available activities might include golf, tennis, horseback riding, skiing and water sports. Spa treatments and services generally complement a hotel stay or vacation activities at a resort.
- Resort at Squaw Creek
- Vail Cascade
- Vail Cascade Condominiums
- Sunriver Resort
- Wild Dunes® Resort
- Stowe Mountain Lodge
- Suncadia
- Terranea Resort™
City Hotel or Urban Spas
Located in metropolitan hotels, some of these spas are open only to hotel guests, while others are accessible to the general public.
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