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HEALTH
CLUB SPA
PINT-SIZED PAMPERING FOR PUB CHAIN
The UK-based Merchant Inns pub company has announced details range, which has recently relaunched in the UK. An extensive
of a new spa concept called Pint-Sized Pampering. line of spa treatments will be offered, including an Organic
Based around the launch of The Spa Treatment Rooms at the Radiance Facial, a Full Body Hot Stone Massage, a Men’s Muscle
group’s The Lambert Arms pub in the Chilterns near Oxford, Manipulator, and a Radiance Eye Treatment.
spa treatments will be offered as part of an overnight break. The pub, originally a coaching inn, dates back to Victorian
Therapies will use the French Ella Baché professional skincare times. Food is overseen by Michelin-starred chef Rob Clayton.
COFFEE-INSPIRED
A new spa called Kuö has opened in
a Marriott property in Costa Rica,
SPA OPENS IN
Central America.
The property is surrounded by
COSTA RICA
coffee plantations and the signature
spa treatment incorporates the
Costa Rica Coffee Scrub. Other
therapies on offer will use mineral
waters, mud, algae, herbal extracts
and essential oils.
When absorbed into the skin,
coffee is said to help speed up the
metabolism, while it’s also claimed
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O
that caffeine can be used in the
T SPARKLING STEAMROOM
treatment of cellulite. Coffee also
contains anti-oxidants and can be
IN SWITZERLAND
OCKPHO
used to help with alertness.
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The Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, a thermal spa
retreat in Switzerland, has injected a shot of
curries help beat stress in the uk
glamour to the standard steamroom offering:
a touch of frosting that might have been
enough to tempt Audrey away from Tiffany’s.
UK spas wanting to add a touch of calm endorphin-releasing red chilli peppers For the fi rst time, the glittering gems from
to their food offering may want to add and serotonin-rich vegetables such as iconic crystal-makers Swarovski adorn a
curry to their menus. tomatoes. Eighty-four per cent of study steamroom – a new thermal facility located
Research carried out by UK online participants said the fact that they didn’t within the To B Wellbeing & Spa, a recently
takeaway portal,
Just-Eat.co.uk, found have to cook the food was a major refurbished pampering spa at Bad Ragaz.
that 92 per cent of Britons say they feel factor in improving their mood. More than 300 individual crystals have been
‘happier’ after eating a takeaway. The Just-Eat meal experts said the top- added to the walls, where they twinkle
poll focused on 1,185 people. fi ve mood-improving curries (based on under lights which gradually change colour
Takeaways such as vindaloo, cooking methods and ingredients) are throughout the day to create different
madras and Thai curry are believed chicken/beef madras, vindaloo, Thai red therapeutic atmospheres.
to relieve stress as they incorporate curry, pasanda and jalfrezi.
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