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America’s top 12 romantic spas for couples |
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Written by Sally Rangeway
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, NYC The VIP couples suite here features an antique Chinese bed, private steam shower, elevated bath and fireplace, plus a breathtaking view of the New York skyline. Packages last three hours and include your choice of a wide variety of treatments including Lomi Lomi or Hot Rocks massages.
The Spa at Harbour Inn, St. Michaels, Md.To set the mood, order the “Bath Before Bed,” a rose petal bubble bath with candles and champagne.
Royal Palms Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Ariz. The Alvadora Spa’s Acqua Dolce suites offer couples private places both indoor and outdoor to relax and play. This is the place to bring your %sex toys% and seductive play clothes. After a ritual massage on twin heated stone tables, you are free to roam your private garden terrace: relax in the whirlpool, sit in front of the outdoor fireplace or simply swoon beneath the starry desert sky. The resort employs a Director of Romance, to help every dream come true.
The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, SCGo Boggin’ with your partner in this elegant update on a local custom. Couples in the area have dabbed each other with Pluff Mud from the local marshes for generations. Now you can do the same in one of the Inn’s private spa rooms. The two-and-a-half hour Spa Boggin’ package includes a steam bath, Palmetto Pluff Mud that you paint on each other, before wrapping up in sheets and relaxing on the day bed for two with a light meal of champagne and oysters or chocolate. Rinse off in the outdoor tub before retiring to your private cottage.
The Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain, Ariz.Couples can rent the Sanctum, a stone-walled hideaway, by the hour or half-day. Inside is a vitality pool, deluge shower and fire pit.
Mauna Lani Resort and Spa, Big Island, HawaiiUnite under the eye of the goddess Pele in an open-air sauna built of natural lava rock and black sand, followed by an outdoor shower and side by side massages in a traditional thatched hut. Lomi Lomi treatments, hot stone therapy and Watsu and other aquatic therapies are available.
Little Palm Island Resort & Spa, Little Torch Key, FloridaTake a boat or seaplane to this isolated resort on a Florida key where you can enjoy Indonesian treatments at SpaTerre.
Calistoga Golden Haven Hot Springs Spa, Napa Valley, CaliforniaCouples indulge in the famous Calistoga mud baths in private treatment rooms followed by a hot springs Jacuzzi and blanket wrap.
The Spa at Mountain View Grand, Whitefield, NHFollow your side-by-side massages with a soak in the Japanese-style Ofuro Tub at the top of the hotel’s highest tower with an unspoiled view of the White Mountains.
Red Mountain Spa, St. George, Utah. The Do Not Disturb package includes Adventures in Romance experiences. Add the Private Star-Gazing Service for a heavenly time.
Avanti Salon & Spa in Manalapan, New JerseyThe 50-hour Romeo and Juliet package includes time in the blue and green tiled Razul Chamber, followed by a Swiss steam shower, and a host of body treatments from scalp massages to pedicures, culminating in a champagne lunch in the Tranquility Room.
The Spa at the Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NCThis subterranean stone grotto features waterfalls, fireplaces and candle-lit niches where you can be alone, plus a magnificent terrace overlooking the Blue Ridge.
More romantic spas:
- The Château Élan Spa Mansion, Braselton, Georgia, near Atlanta
- Plaza Hotel New York
- Mandarin Oriental Miami, Florida
- The Ritz-Carlton’s Bachelor Gulch Spa, near Beaver Creek and Vail, Colorado
- The Spa at the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay, California
- The Well Spa in Las Vegas, NV
- Argyle Salon and Spa at the Sunset Tower Hotel, West Hollywood, California
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Sally Rangeway |
| About the author: |
| Sally Rangeway is a professional writer who likes to cross boundaries. During her 25 plus years as a writer, she’s tackled reviewing everything from golf clubs to modern dance, interviewed politicos and priests, and written for numerous lifestyle and city magazines. Her current passion is travel writing, with a special interest in places all over the world where you can go to be pampered. She has published several travel guides with several more in the works. Sally is a Scorpio and doesn’t think there’s anything two–or more–people can do in bed that could possibly be wrong or sinful as long as all involved are consenting adults. She’s currently single, but accepting interesting proposals from qualified applicants.
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