Destination spa
A destination spa is a business establishment which people visit for life enhancement vacations. Destination spas offer all-inclusive programming that includes facilitated fitness classes, healthy cuisine, educational classes and seminars as well as similar services to a beauty salon or a day spa. Guests reside and participate in the program at a destination spa instead of just visiting for a treatment. Resort spas are generally located in resorts and offer rooms with services, meals, and fitness a la carte.
Other types of spas include resort/hotel spas, day spas, club spas, cruise ship spas, medical spas, and mineral spring spas.
Spas in literature
Various novels involve such spas as either settings, or parts of the plot. St. Ronan's Well (1824) is an example of this.
Types of services
Typical Destination Spa services include:
- nutrition counseling
- weight loss
- medical treatment
- fitness consultation
- cooking lessons
- massage
- reflexology
- facials — facial cleansing with a variety of products
- nail care
- waxing — the removal of body hair with hot wax
- body treatments such as body wraps, aromatherapy
- skin exfoliation — including chemical peels and microdermabrasion