A waterfall-filled oasis in the middle of a city, in-house yogis, hands-on service (literally)—it takes a lot for a spa to be named one of the best in the world.
- Standout Caribbean Spas
- By using local ingredients and adapting techiques to suit island style, these spas rub you the right way.
- Four Spas Worth Visiting
- In Hawaii, Las Vegas, Scotland, and the Dominican Republic, the latest in pampering.
- Amazing Las Vegas Spas
- Three spa indulgences you won’t find anywhere else.
- Where the Spa Began
- Marienbad, Bath, and other famous European spa towns once drew crowds of the nobility and the masses alike. Discover the bygone pleasures.
- A German Resort, Reinvented
- It’s been a sybaritic getaway for centuries. Now, Baden-Baden is showing a brand-new face.
- Japan’s New Deep-Water Spa Cure
- Pristine and mineral-rich, water from the ocean's depths cures and rejuvenates, claims beauty maestro Shu Uemura, who has opened the first deep-sea water spa on Japan's remote Shikoku Island.
- Can Spas Help You Live Longer?
- At two new “health centers” out West, guests check in for the best tests and advice money can buy—all with a massage and a glass of Chateau Margaux.
- A Skeptic’s Spa Retreat
- At Utah’s Red Mountain Spa, a reluctant patron endures a hot-stone massage, scales 40-foot walls, joins a fire ceremony, and gets her attitude adjusted (almost).
- Bangkok’s Innovative Hotel Spas
- Bangkok may well have more hotel spas per square block than any other city on earth. Now, two of the top names in town, the Peninsula and the Oriental, are going head to well-massaged head with new developments. So how do they stack up?
- Southern Comforts
- Mint juleps and fried green tomatoes aren't the only indulgences found below the Mason-Dixon Line. Spas with an antebellum twist are popping up like kudzu at some of the South’s finest resorts.
