Site touts Spa Awareness Month

The International Spa Association declared October to be Spa Awareness Month.

Participating spas and suppliers will offer demonstrations, tips and incentives.

Promotions will be listed on the association's Web site, at www.experienceispa.com, which launched on June 1.

The site features a search engine enabling users to find a spa based on geographic area or type; articles on spa experiences and news; resources for researching the industry, and samples of spa cuisine.

In other spa news, Olympia, Wash.-based GeoAgents.com entered into an alliance with SpaView.com to provide targeted marketing and electronic delivery of promotions to travel agents.

The alliance will work through GeoAgents.com's Web site and with Travel Desktop software, a management and marketing tool for agents, set to launch in the coming weeks.

SpaView.com will provide content to the GeoAgents site, and GeoAgents.com will promote SpaView to expanded agent and consumer audiences.

Meanwhile, spas all over the world are sprucing up and offering deals to entice clients to visit.

As part of the refurbishment, the resort opened a 10,000-square-foot spa, operating from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

The facility offers 25 different body treatments, including hydrotherapy; massages; facials, and group and personal fitness programs.

For information, call (800) 621-0638 or visit the Web site at www.marriotthotels.com/MCOWC.

The 16-room, 22,000-square-foot spa will open on Nov. 15.

The plan is priced from $880 per room, double, and covers accommodations, daily breakfasts, airport transfers, dinner for two, several commemorative gifts and a treatment selection for each guest.

Treatments include an Indonesian massage; a coconut body scrub; a Balinese massage salt application and body splash; a traditional Lulur, a massage and exfoliating scrub followed by a yogurt rub and flower bath, and a Boreh treatment, which is a massage followed by a body mask.

Also included is a one-hour massage training session for the couple.

For details on the package, contact the Aston Bali Resort & Spa via e-mail at [email protected].

The treatments available this fall include the Signature Juluca Ritual, Rice & Spice Ritual and the Gentleman's Ritual.

Also available to guests this season will be massages, aromatherapy, reflexology, facials, select additional body treatments and fitness and yoga sessions.

Reopening rates at the resort start at $310 per room and cover continental breakfast and use of water-sports equipment.

Call Cap Juluca at (888) 8JULUCA or visit its site on the Web at www.capjuluca.com.

Modeled after the Greenbrier Spa in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., the $16 million facility recreated the treatments and amenities of the original.

Services include hydrotherapy; aromatherapy facials and massages; steam and sauna baths; body polishes, and pedicures and manicures.

The 10,500-square-foot spa has 14 treatment rooms, four hydrotherapy rooms, and two Scotch spray and Swiss shower facilities.

The fitness center features Cybex treadmills, step machines and recumbent bikes.

Personal trainers provide fitness evaluations and one-on-one sessions.

Aquanautics classes are offered in the outdoor pool.

For information, call (800) WESTIN-1 or visit the Web site at www.westin.com.

The Spa Getaway package is priced at $359 per couple and features overnight accommodations in a deluxe guest room, breakfast for two, a spa-cuisine lunch, a gift and a facial or massage for each guest.

A two-night spa package is priced at $1,510 per room, double occupancy.

The plan covers deluxe accommodations and two breakfasts, lunches and dinners per person.

Also featured are a selection of seven treatments for each guest.

To book the two-night plan, call spa reservations at (609) 897-7520.

For all other requests, contact the Doral Forrestal Hotel and Spa's toll-free number at (800) 222-1131.

The property also can be found on the Web at www.forrestal.com.

The property can be booked in all major CRSs.