If you need help choosing a spa, the largest single-purpose health spa
there are spa travel specialists. Spa- in the United States. Included in the
Finders offers a catalogue with more standard program of exercise and
than 200 spas and resorts. A personal beauty treatments are meals, health
consultation by questionnaire and consultations, beauty treatments
telephone call results in a computer (such as facials and body wraps),
printout of five spas most likely to massages and fitness classes. Meals
match your tastes. Call 800-255-7727 lean toward a Jewish ethnic flavor.
for information.
"The spa business in the United
Palm Aire Hotel and Spa,
States grew up like Topsy and has Pompano Beach, Fla. (800-327-4960),
expanded rapidly in recent years, so is situated on a 1,500-acre
the range of style and price is wide, development complete with condos.
from cottage-industry holistic The spa has access to five golf
retreats to the glamour establish- courses, 37 tennis courts, a running
ments," says Jeffrey Joseph, founder course, pools and four racquetball
of Spa-Finders. "The value-for- courts. The health program is based
money of many is eye-opening."
on the Triad Fitness Program, which
Weight Watchers also has focuses on maintaining good weight
programs at resorts from California and cholesterol levels and
to Connecticut. Call your local office encouraging people not to smoke.
for information. Other specialists are
Included in the package are
Custom Spas, 800-443-7727; Sante meals, admission to all the spa's
International, 800-826-8062; and facilities including pools, a medical
Litoral Travel, 800-445-1514.
evaluation by a licensed physician,
Here are 12 of the more popular fitness evaluation, body massages,
spas. When calling for information, Jacuzzi sessions, herbal wraps,
be sure to ask if the rates include facials, loofa scrub, and nutrition
service charges and taxes.
lectures.
Harbor Island Spa, Miami
The spa offers an Instant Tone-
Beach, Fla. (800-772-7546), calls itself Up package for three nights and a
Skin and beauty treatments are
among attractions of spas. Here,
Bonaventure Hotel and Spa staffer
gives a facial.
Complete Shape-Up program for
seven nights.
Limited to 10 to 12 participants
at a time, Palm Aire also offers an
intensive 14-day/14 night program for
weight control called the University
Health Center at Palm Aire.
Evenings are social, with jackets
required for men in the dining room.
Bonaventure Hotel and Spa
is a full 1200-acre resort in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. (800-327-8090). Two
18-hole golf courses, 23 tennis courts
and an equestrian center are part of
the resort.
The Bonaventure Spa is one of
the largest and is known for the
many services it provides for both
men and women. Attended by a staff
of 110, the spa offers herbal wraps,
loofa scrubs, plunge pools, Swiss
showers, massages, facials, skin and
beauty treatments, saunas and
steamrooms, whirlpools and aerobic
dance studios.
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