SPAS & WELLNESS Exotic luxuries
Heading to the Caribbean and fancy a bit of pampering? Fear not, this is one area of the world that has woken up to the joys of everything from healing mud to caviar facials
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resort’s hydroponics farm are used in treatments.
Perched on a stunning seaside cliff, the Sense Spa at Rosewood Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin Islands is sure to wow with indigenous ingredients like Virgin Gorda honey, goat milk and neem leaf.
Over in the Bahamas, Kamalame Cay has a very private little spa at the end of a wooden jetty. The new Marley Resort has a tiny Natural Mystic Spa, and the One&Only Ocean Club Spa on Paradise Island has eight grand Balinese villas.
Old-school Curtain Bluff on Antigua
has a striking two-storey spa including a cliff-edged infinity hot tub. Alternatively the Blue Spa at Carlisle Bay on Antigua focuses on health and wellbeing in designer surroundings.
Top: Pampering at the spa - Saint Lucia Tourist Board Right: Home-grown wealth - Guadeloupe Islands Tourist Board
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Dominica is rich in wellness giving wonders such as its hot springs and waterfalls and organic cuisine and its rejuvenating activities. See the online directory at
discoverdominica.com/site/spa. cfm.
For a new spin on beachside luxury, Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada offers super-elegant beachfront suites situated literally right on the beach at the edge of the Caribbean Sea. A must is Janissa’s Spa.
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ix Senses Spas have made their first foray into the Caribbean at Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic. Focusing on holistic wellness, rejuvenation and beauty treatments to balance the senses, a ‘Sensory Spa Journey’ includes a four hands massage (two therapists).
On Grenada, there’s the new Heaven and Earth spa at the Calabash Hotel & Villas, while the all-inclusive LaSource continues to offer guests a different spa treatment each day of their stay. The award winning Venus Spa at CuisinArt Resort on Anguilla has tripled in size with16 state-of-the- art treatment rooms and a new Thalasso pool. Products from the
Aloe Vera has been grown on Aruba since 1840, so naturally, the Larimar Spa at Radisson Aruba does an aloe and rum massage
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