The spa offers hot steam baths, cool river baths and hammocks in addition to treatments such as massages, seaweed wraps and holistic facials.

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On the rooftop, relax in the soothing hot baths at the outdoor Spa Vitale.

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" All this occurs in an elaborate spa where Guido is taking thermal baths as well as daily quantities of "holy water.

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Mr Corbett created the first spa, St Andrew's Brine Baths, in 1887 as part of the Raven Hotel.

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Droitwich Spa became the only salt water spa town in Britain when John Corbett created the first spa, St Andrew's Brine Baths, in 1887 as part of the Raven Hotel.

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The baths, owned by the private BMI Droitwich Spa Hospital, have been closed since 2009 owing to problems with the upkeep of the building.

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The 2.4-acre estate sits on Aspatuck Creek waterfront in the Quogue real estate market of eastern Long Island and comes with a 3, 654-square-foot home with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 fireplaces and a Gunite pool and spa.

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And, if gold prices collapse and take the sheen off the gold spa treatment, Ms. Kanokporn has a backup plan: Jacuzzi baths in specially fortified wine.

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But the centre piece of the Bath Spa Project will be a stone cube on the site of the 1920s Beau Street swimming baths.

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