The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts will open a Corbu spa this summer.

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Run by Ginny and John Lopis, spa industry veterans who helped establish such venerable properties as Canyon Ranch in Arizona, Bacara in Santa Barbara and the Doral Saturnia in Miami, it's been dubbed the first destination spa to open in the U.S. in more than a decade.

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It's a New York institution, open since 1892, and the worn, subterranean spa has a Spartan look and feel imagine a small town aquarium crossed with a mining shaft.

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It will open three treatment rooms and provide a vast menu of spa services, from hot stone massage to citrus and sea salt body exfoliations.

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While the 103 guest rooms and suites are now light-splashed and modern, the familiar Spanish-style architecture remains it now matches the new 12, 000-square-foot building which houses a bell tower, fitness studio, Spa by La Prairie and three airy guest rooms with open floor plans and retractable interior walls.

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Whiting Bay Hall and Auchrannie Spa and Country House, in Brodick on Arran, are open for residents with power, heat and refreshments, while Lamlash fire station is also open all day with power available through a local generator.

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The new building will replace the current Hilton property and is scheduled to open in 2015 with 23 meeting rooms, a restaurant and bar, a spa and fitness centre and an atrium lobby.

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At Spa Terminus, butchers, bakers and cheesemakers are among the local food producers with Saturday open houses.

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Other highlights are an open-air dining terrace, a double infinity pool, five all-weather tennis courts and a spa housed in a restored 18th century plantation house.

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