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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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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Not only did he enjoy the spa, which offers hot stone massage, honey citrus body wraps and a milk and rose bath sprinkled with petals, but he also appreciated the attention the staff paid to his daughter, who was just 6 at the time.

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Moonlight Lodge is the development's centerpiece, with a spa, the Timbers restaurant and a three-story stone fireplace on which three stuffed mountain goats cavort.

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Surrounded by columns and small cabanas, the 75-foot pool anchors the spa, which is composed of onyx, oak, Vicenza stone and Italian glass mosaics that lead to a vertical fireplace.

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After dining or drinking by the pool, a visit to Bulgari's spa might be in order, not only for its Balinese therapies and hot-stone treatments, but to experience the building itself, a centuries-old house of richly carved teak that has been transplanted from its original home in Java and reassembled here.

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