Destination spas are attracting clients for short stays by offering mini vacation specials. A mini spa vacation provides ample time for guests to enjoy spa services, treatments and educational resources while exploring a new city or region. Lectures, cooking demonstrations and classes are a major feature of the short spa retreat. This empowers guests to not only return home healthier but with the means to continue practicing what they’ve learned.
Benefits of Spa Retreats
Quick spa retreats offer a wide range of activities. Guests can choose from cooking classes, yoga sessions, facials, massages, hydrotherapy sessions, body wraps, exercise classes and signature treatments. Mini-getaways give guests the opportunity to jump-start their health and beauty resolutions. Special services for couples and groups are usually available. Whether you’re planning a romantic getaway or spending some quality time with a group of friends, the mini spa retreat can accommodate your needs.
Mini Spa Retreats
While all destination spas are happy to accomodate overnight guests, many spas offer special short stay packages and weekend getaways. Be sure to check spa website for special web discounts and inquire about special short stay packages. The following are examples of the top of specials you can find.
New Age Health Spa, Neversink New York
The New Age Health Spa offers yoga weekends twice each month that emphasize a particular yoga practice or specific health goal. The Restorative Yoga Program, for example, helps clients cope with the effects of chronic stress, whereas the Fasting Yoga events guides clients through a juice detoxification. Other events include smoking cessation weekends, power yoga, yoga as a form of healing, and yoga for healthy aging. Weekend getaways include five yoga classes and guests can also schedule private Pilates workouts, guided hikes, feng shui workshops, colon cleansing and acupuncture.
Green Valley Spa, St. George Utah
The renowned Green Valley Spa lets guests create their own mini-vacations with the Overnighter Package. Guests can sign up for a junior or grand suite and select their own beauty treatments, cooking or fitness classes, hiking excursions, rock climbing, mountain biking, chakra balancing, aromatherapy sessions, signature skin care and hair/scalp treatments, or self-help sessions from an a la carte menu.
The Sewickley Spa, Ligonier, Pennsylvania
For a romantic getaway that merges into a restorative retreat, check out the Sewickley Spa’s Ligonier Enchantment Special. Here, couples can enjoy an overnight stay and get pampered with an array of services, including a full body Swedish massage, skin brushing and steaming, and a deep-cleansing facial.
Crystal Springs Spa, Vernon, New Jersey
Crystal Springs features a Girlfriends Getaway that includes a therapeutic massage, signature facial, foot soak with rose petals and essential oils, hair styling and more. Crystal Springs is know for its gourmet spa cuisine and its challenging golf course.
Cal-A-Vie Spa, Vista, California
Create your own three night stay with La Petite Weeks Package that includes a custom fitness program with options ranging from tai chi classes to water volleyball, cooking classes, nutrition classes, reflexology treatments, hydrotherapy massages, facials and more. The facility is small and only accommodates 24 overnight guests at a time, which allows for a tranquil setting.
Appalachian Spa, Asheville, North Carolina
The Appalachian Spa, which is well known for its mobile massage team, offers a variety of mini spa packages. These include a couples’ getaway, girlfriends’ outings, mom and teens events, weddings and spa parties. The Appalachian offers a wide variety of services that can be included in their custom packages. A favorite is their Happy Trails Happy Feet, which includes a relaxing Hikers Delight-Peppermint-tea tree lavender foot soak/warm wrap & foot scrub, 30min. reflexology foot massage peppermint lotion & clay masque warm foot wrap treatment.
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