When I found myself at a pre-Fashion Week runway show last night, soaking in uber-cool choreography during a presentation by the denim line DL1961, I tried to forget about how I had answered my first e-mail at 7 that morning.
After renovations, customers at the luxury 77-room safari lodge can breathe easy and will find all the signature Four Seasons' touches they have come to expect, including a first-class spa, quality local and international dining at three restaurants and two bars, the acclaimed Kids For All Seasons children's program, a natural and cultural Discovery Center, and guest rooms with high-end linens, amenities, soaking tubs and separate walk-in showers.
The bath area includes a step-in steam shower, a soaking tub and a marble-topped vanity.
Each of these locales offers plenty of opportunities for imbibing, many of them ideal for both people-watching and soaking in the scenery.
The rooms are very large by hotel standards, even the smallest, with gas fireplaces, well-stocked mini-bars that are complimentary for snacks and non-alcoholic drinks, swank bathrooms with walk-in showers and soaking tubs and heated marble floors.
And the bath provided a powerful walk-in shower, a soaking tub, black marble surfaces and art deco ornamental mirrors.
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You get to break in that new six-burner range, take a long bath in your first soaking tub, and appreciate the roominess of your new garage.
Suddenly, QPR began to look dangerous on the counter-attack, soaking up pressure before pushing forward in search of an unlikely winner.
He was still smiling, soaking in his weekend at Augusta as the youngest player to make a cut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned tournament.
If you've been in cold water for up to 30 minutes, Tipton recommends soaking for 10 to 15 minutes in a hot bath -- but no more than that.
So yes, the bedroom, with that plump queen bed, is a tight space, but the bathroom has a step-down slate soaking tub that fills from a spout in the ceiling and has an infinity edge so you need not worry about flooding the room.
The yoga might be done on windswept mid-ocean rocks (really), and the spa soaking in a vitality pool in a lush mangrove jungle.
Within minutes, the back of the circuit was soaking, while it remained dry in the vicinity of the pits - not an unusual situation at a track renowned for its capricious weather.
And if air travel is more your speed, why not take to the skies aboard this zero-emission Elektra airplane, which spends its downtime soaking up the suns rays in a solar hangar.
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Meanwhile, the enormous master bathroom is complete with jetted soaking tub, granite shower, dual sinks and a custom built closet with built-in dressers and shelves.
In China, the new Four Seasons Pudong in Shanghai has two spa suites (with heated floors, an infinity-edged soaking bathtub, sauna and steam room).
"I think it reduces stress, " says Wendy Klein, 51, an account executive for Partners in Planning, a financial services company, who spent an hour soaking before treating herself to a hot-stone massage.
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