SPAS
Spas MIND, BODY AND SOUL
The stress of modern life means the need to revitalise, rejuvenate and restore at a spa has become a holiday necessity.
SOME OF the world’s leading – and award-winning – spas are found on Mauritius, offering signature therapies and well-known products in stunning tropical and watery surrounds to refresh mind, body and soul, with competitive packages sometimes throwing in spa treatments for free. There’s no shortage of pampering
Top ten hotel spas
• Nira Spa, Shanti Maurice
www.shantimaurice.com
• Sanctuary Spa, The Residence Mauritius
www.theresidence.com
• Clarins Spa, Trou aux Biches
www.trouauxbiches-hotel.com
• Spa, The Oberoi, Mauritius
www.oberoihotels.com/oberoi_ mauritius
• Angsana Spa, Angsana Balaclava
www.angsana.com/en/balaclava
• Maradiva Spa, Maradiva Villas Resort & Spa
www.maradiva.com
• The Spa, Four Seasons at Anahita
www.fourseasons.com/mauritius
• ESPA, One&Only Le Saint Geran
www.oneandonlyresorts.com
• Six Senses Spa, Heritage Le Telfair
www.heritageletelfair.mu
• Givenchy Spa, Le Touessrok
www.letouessrokresort.com
NEW HOT SPA • Iridium Spa, St Regis
www.stregis-mauritius.com
here, with exclusive beauty brands such as Shiseido, ESPA and Givenchy at leading hotels. New is Clarins at Trou aux Biches Resort & Spa, Carita treatments at The Residence’s recently refurbished Sanctuary Spa and a Sisley spa at Le Prince Maurice in 2012. Exclusive beauty treatments on the island include the Celine Lifting by Acupuncture natural facelift, used at the ancient Imperial court in China at So SPA at So Mauritius, the Pedi:Mani:Cure Studio by Bastien Gonzalez at One&Only by ESPA and the Men’s Grooming Salon at the new St. Regis Mauritius Resort Iridium Spa. Gold, known for its beautifying properties and age-defying ability, adds the sparkle to the new UMO
Great spas at Le Touessrok (top left) and Shanti Maurice (top right) Facing page: the Ambre
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“Hotels have embraced clients’ need for relaxation while continuing a healthy lifestyle and many have now introduced healthy eating menus, consultations, and the newest exercise trends, therapies, treatments and products.”
Sandra Harrison, Product Manager - Indian Ocean, Africa, Asia & Australasia, Elegant Resorts
24 karat gold facial, from ¤250, at the Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita. The worldwide popularity of spas has been boosted by the uptake of global holistic therapies and the heritage of Mauritius gives the island a headstart. The award- winning Nira Spa at Shanti Maurice, one of the Indian Ocean’s largest and most comprehensive, offers Indian- originated Ayurveda and Creole-inspired Africology and a uniquely Mauritian signature treatment, The Sega Ritual, an organic cane sugar exfoliation and a coconut-butter and frangipani massage to music with bonfi res on the beach. Wellbeing is the name of the game at Mauritius spas. Maradiva
www.tourism-mauritius.mu
Villas Resort & Spa has launched Ayurvedic Detox Retreats in 2012, blending Ayurveda with yoga, meditation and a special cleansing menu. Its treatments can be sampled in a pop-up spa at Urban Retreat at Harrods, London October 8 to November 5 2012. Guests at One&Only by ESPA get a personalised sports programme and nutritional analysis and The Spa by Clarins at Royal
Palm has added yoga and meditation. LUX* Resorts’
innovative LUX* Me Spa
offers a personalised wellbeing programmes combining nutrition, fi tness, spa, yoga and meditation. Tailormade wellness journeys and Asian and Ayurvedic treatments using local coconut, ylang ylang and sugar cane, and seaweed
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