Among this year's faves: Conde Nast readers selected the Banyan Tree Phuket as the world's best spa resort.
"The ultimate strategy has been to create balance, " he says, sounding for a moment like a nutritionist at a spa resort.
Spa Resort Hawaiians (81-246) 433-191, in Iwake city, about 90 minutes by train northeast of Tokyo, has an extensive outdoor onsen swimming pool surrounded by palm trees and hibiscus.
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Travaasa Hana, the second in the ground-breaking new Travaasa Spa Resort mini-chain, is about as retreat-like as you can have and still have all the cushy comforts of a five-star resort.
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But most significantly, the Broadmoor had one of the first full-service spas, becoming a true destination spa resort back when there was practically no such thing and virtually no hotels had spas.
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At the Loisium Wine and Spa Resort in Langenlois, Austria, aestheticians combine the property's best assets to offer vinotherapy--a practice that uses grapes and grape seed oil to improve the skin.
Plus there are luxury accommodations aplenty, such as Coconuts Beach Club, Resort and Spa and the Sinalei Reef Resort and Spa.
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It's tucked into the one-year-old Four Seasons, which is more of a lavish spa than a resort.
Mii amo Spa at Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona, offers something called "The Athlete, " which blends an hour-long strength-training session with a 60-minute hydrotherapy bath and a massage to work out areas of tension and soreness.
The goal is to "try to attract our guest to come and visit the spa every day, " says Angel Stewart, the resort's spa consultant.
But the standout attraction at the moment is the Gold Palm Tree Resort and Spa, which opened last summer.
The resort and spa offers a luxury getaway of beach relaxation in beautiful villas with private terraces.
The development, on a 365-acre site, is to be known as Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa.
This is the Golden Palm Tree Resort and Spa, a luxurious Maldivian-style, over-water villa complex, just off the coast of Selangor in Malaysia.
The seller was Chuck Bluth, the former owner of the Cal Neva Resort, Spa and Casino, who built the home in 1997.
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The accommodations, located adjacent to the resort's spa, will also get healthier minibar snacks and room-service menu items, says Tom Voss, the resort's president.
This award-winning Aveda Concept Spa is in the resort's historic carriage house, just steps from where you and your own Sleeping Beauty slumber.
The JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa (San Antonio, TX) is offering a special Tax Day Retreat spa treatment until April 30.
Woods also benefitted from a lesson with fellow golfer Steve Stricker, on the practice green at the Doral Resort and Spa last month before the WGC Cadillac Championship.
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Get a leg up on your vacation planning with a four-night trip for two to Villa del Palmar Flamingos Beach Resort and Spa, on Mexico's west coast.
Adventure is just steps from your second accommodation, the elegant Parador Resort and Spa in Manuel Antonio, where you'll spend the next four evenings in a Tropical Superior Room.
If you really want to get away from the glitz, but not the glamour, than the Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa, approximately 40 kms from downturn Dubai, is the spot.
You can then cross the border into Burma, or you can pars-leave the group for a hike through the jungles near Katiliya Mountain Resort and Spa, where you'll stay for night seven and eight.
Valle de Uco, a slightly more removed up-and-coming area 75km away from Mendoza, is home to a few new resort and property developments alongside wineries, such as The Vines Resort and Spa and Las Moradas de los Andes.
Impress other suntanned pupils with your bilingual abilities when you balance duel half-off discounts on treatments at the resort's spa alongside tours and activities provided by Vallarta Adventures: zipline over the lush Sierra Madre Mountains or snorkel in the clear Banderas Bay, and then recuperate with a calming full-body massage.
You also can play nine holes of mini golf on the property and relax at the Spa at Red Jacket Mountain View Resort for your included 30-minute massage.
The cosy resort, restaurant and spa are housed in a collection of impeccably restored buildings that were once an army base set up to protect the bay from invaders.
The company submitted plans for a resort, which would include spa facilities and 50-70 bedrooms.
After a few years, Adams turned it into an inclusive resort with full accommodations, spa services and event rentals, running it in a similar fashion to his dude ranch, The Motherwell, in Colorado.
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