WELLNESS
“Across the Caribbean, there’s an increase in wellbeing courses that tackle particular problems. LaSource on Grenada has a Sleep School Retreat. The Jungle Bay Resort and Spa in Dominica hosts week-long bootcamps”
treatments. It also has a spa with Ayurvedic doctors on staff. It also reports more children using the spa, which is a general trend. Jumby Bay on Antigua for example, has a children’s Junior Spa Menu ( for ages four to 16 years) as part of its RoseBuds programme.
WELLBEING
Across the Caribbean, there’s an increase in wellbeing courses that tackle particular problems. LaSource on Grenada has a Sleep School Retreat. The Jungle Bay Resort and Spa in Dominica hosts week-long bootcamps for guests looking to combine a Caribbean holiday with intense workouts in the rain forest. And the revered Shambhala Retreat at Parrot Cay in Turks & Caicos offers five-day retreats led by visiting masters versed in yoga or Pilates.
WHAT’S NEW The new Rainforest Spa at The Jalousie Plantation, Sugar Beach in Saint Lucia features tree house treatment rooms, an Amerindian
steam dome, and specialist skin care clinic perched along a lively stream in the lush tropical forest at the base of the World Heritage-listed Pitons. Signature treatments here include bamboo massages, hot rock therapies, Ayurvedic as well as a range of holistic treatments. The Rainforest Spa also makes use of Saint Lucia’s sulphur springs for an exhilarating sulphur mud bath and massage. Also on Saint Lucia, Hotel Chocolat has opened what must be one of the most unusual spas in the whole of the Caribbean. Inspired by the cocoa plantation on which it is situated, CocoaJuvenate offers treatments with a cocoa bean influence. On Barbados, Coral Reef has invested heavily in a contemporary stand-alone spa designed by Helen Green Design. A new ‘Body, Mind and Spa’ package focuses on a ‘profound restoration of the body’ and includes four 60-minute spa treatments and a variety of other activities.
HOT TIPS Natural approach...
Look for whole holidays created around the wellness theme where Caribbean environment is an aid to treatment.
Target your troubles... Focus on specific wellness issues from sleep problems
to skin complaints and you could return home cured!
Main picture, opposite: hot stone massage at Rex Resorts. Left, main picture: massage at one of Sandal’s beachside cabanas and, from top, relaxation in Barbados; fruit therapy in Anguilla; and unwinding in the yoga pavilion in Antigua.
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