If you’re looking for a place in the LA area to relax and be pampered around the Santa Monica area, the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel spa is the place you want to be. I have to be honest, the pool scene at this hotel is not my favorite. In fact, I would recommend that, <... >
Ever stay at a hotel and feel, immediately upon your arrival, that you are at home? That’s exactly how you feel when you arrive at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Of course most homes don’t have this hotel’s rich and colourful history. Greta Garbo lived in the Palisades Wing for more than <... >
When you review spas on a regular basis, you grow accustomed to being treated with the utmost care by the staff. They always greet you with a smile, offer you tea or water, and speak in a soothing voice – all in an effort to help you forget the outside world. At SAVA, the atmosphere <... >
After years of frequent spa ventures, I am thrilled to share my heavenly experience at Cornelia Day Resort. I will begin by listing the numerous “firsts” for me at this luxury oasis on Fifth. – Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was to my liking, and for a high maintenance spa perfectionist like me that’s saying <... >
Simply Spa lives up to its name by streamlining and improving the spa experience. Combining pedicures, manicures, massage treatments and facials – all on one comfortable massage table – Simply Spa is ideal for squeezing all of the work you’d like done into an hour or two. For example, imagine you get off of work <... >
When Miano Viél Salon & Spa asked therapist Rick Williams for a specialty treatment, he knew exactly what to do. The Euphoria treatment is based on the cranio-sacral release technique, cranium being the skull and sacral meaning the tailbone area – cranio-sacral, thus, encompassing the head and all of the vertebral column. Whenever we are <... >
I went to Telluride, Colorado for the spring skiing, but I’d rush back for the Golden Door Spa at the Peaks. Ladies, I tell you, I’ve been back in NYC for 2 weeks now, and I’m still dreaming about the beauty and luxury of it all. Outstanding amenities, treatments, fitness facilities and classes abound. Spectacular <... >
Winter has slowly crept upon us and so has dry cracking skin, especially on our hands and feet. I was just saying, the other day, to a friend what the heck is up with my nails? They were so healthy and strong just a few months ago, now look at them. With the cold weather <... >
Don’t be fooled. Bulky Sweaters and long pants might do the trick this winter up here in New York City, but what if you escape the cold with a trip to the Caribbean? What if you want to prance around in front of your boyfriend in sexy lingerie for Valentine’s Day? In other words, cellulite <... >
For a one-stop beauty treatment destination that offers diva-style pampering, visit Chelsea’s spacious new Max spa. It’s the sunny downtown offshoot of Max spa at Central Park South. This spa not only offers a wide array of treatments and a warm, welcoming staff, it has free babysitting for harried moms too. The one-stop treatment approach <... >
This year my allergies and sinuses have been like visitors overstaying their welcome in my small one bedroom apartment. When are they going to leave? I’d tried many forms of relief, Claritin D, herbal combinations, saline solution irrigation. I even went as far as to spread wasabi on a cracker and eat it to clear <... >
They say New York is the city that never sleeps, but in my ‘hood, all I’ve got is the bodega on the corner, Gray’s Papaya, the ATM vestibule at my bank and that’s about it. Which is all well and fine if you’ve had a late night out and need munchies to soak up the <... >
The notion of hot stones, heated in a large roaster-like oven, which are then placed on your body, sounds primitive. At least it did to me. While the history of stones used as a massage tool date back to the Shang Dynasty (circa 2000 B.C.E.) in China, according to Massage Magazine, the practice is precisely <... >
