The Standard Spa, Miami Beach
Day Spas
40 Island AveMiami Beach, FL 33139
It's rare that a spa has an actual map of its grounds, but that's what The Standard Spa, Miami Beach has on its website to break down its amusement park-like pleasures. Find everything from an Aroma Steam Room to a Roman Waterfall Hot Tub inside their Hydrotherapy Playground. Or go for an Arctic Plunge, a frigid deflowering of rational behavior inside "50 degrees of chillification," designed to cleanse any and all bodily impurities.
Spa Highlights: The Standard's laundry list of fun spa activities are anything but standard. A Mud Lounge, Sun Salute Circle and a Scotch Hose for high-pressure stress relief -- just a few of the unorthodox treats.
Most Intriguing Treatment: Inspired by the bellystones of Turkish Hamams comes the Hamam Rub & Scrub, a signature soothing scrub involving a vat of coconut milk and laying your precious epidermis on the heated marble of the Hamam.
Spa Highlights: The Standard's laundry list of fun spa activities are anything but standard. A Mud Lounge, Sun Salute Circle and a Scotch Hose for high-pressure stress relief -- just a few of the unorthodox treats.
Most Intriguing Treatment: Inspired by the bellystones of Turkish Hamams comes the Hamam Rub & Scrub, a signature soothing scrub involving a vat of coconut milk and laying your precious epidermis on the heated marble of the Hamam.
Amangiri
Resorts
1 Kayenta RoadKanab, UT 84741
The undisputed scene stealer at this magnificent resort in the Utah desert is location, location, location. And The Aman Spa at Amangiri does nothing to begrudge you of that simple and solemn fact. Expect private courtyards, a sky-lit reflection pool and a spa menu inspired by the Navajo culture designed to restore your "Hozho" (beauty, harmony, balance and health). Who wouldn't like a jolt of that before returning to civilization?
Spa Highlights: A 25,000-square-foot facility with a stone-lined step pool, Yoga Pavilion with bamboo flooring (lower picture), five candlelit treatment rooms and sweeping views of the Utah desert.
Most Intriguing Treatment: A sensory treatment called Floatation Therapy, which supposedly helps you achieve results traditionally inspired by years of meditation. It all happens inside a pavilion with an open-air relaxation terrace and hot plunge pool.
Spa Highlights: A 25,000-square-foot facility with a stone-lined step pool, Yoga Pavilion with bamboo flooring (lower picture), five candlelit treatment rooms and sweeping views of the Utah desert.
Most Intriguing Treatment: A sensory treatment called Floatation Therapy, which supposedly helps you achieve results traditionally inspired by years of meditation. It all happens inside a pavilion with an open-air relaxation terrace and hot plunge pool.
Mandarin Oriental Spa & Wellness
Day Spas
3752 Las Vegas Blvd SLas Vegas, NV 89158
In a city known for clubs, craps and crapping out, The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas,
saves the day with this R&R paradise designed to rescue you from
any debt-ridden doldrums. The place is stunning to say the least, fusing
Vegas vibrance, elegance and indigenous elements of Chinese culture.
They also have Vitality Pools, Ice Fountains and five different
"Experience Showers" that blend light, water and sound into
choreographed "rhythmic interplay". Only in Vegas.
Spa Highlights: A sinfully relaxing, 27,000-square-foot spa with 17 treatment rooms and seven private couple's suites.
Most Intriguing Treatment: Oriental Harmony, a one-hour-and-50-minute treatment starring two therapists, "four hands" and a simultaneous hand-and-foot massage amongst other "ahh" moments.
Spa Highlights: A sinfully relaxing, 27,000-square-foot spa with 17 treatment rooms and seven private couple's suites.
Most Intriguing Treatment: Oriental Harmony, a one-hour-and-50-minute treatment starring two therapists, "four hands" and a simultaneous hand-and-foot massage amongst other "ahh" moments.