When planning your holiday getaway, consider that your hotel becomes an Eldorado to sink into after you've exhausted yourself in the great outdoors.
Like it cold? Rebuilt every year in a new design, the cleanest place on earth has got to be Sweden's Ishotellet (Ice Hotel). Warm up before tucking yourself into your sleeping bag with a few shots of flavory, savory Absolut Peppar, Absolut Kurant, or Absolut Citron at their "Absolut" ice bar.
Like it hot? Withdraw all your savings! Submit to Island Outpost's bouquet of boutique hotels located in South Beach, Jamaica, and Nassau. In conjunction with Aveda, these getaway hotels offer pure plant and flower essence-scented treatments and amenities in their luxury rooms and spas, luxurious details like edgeless cliffside pools, furnished caves to chill in, and hammocks to snooze in. All in addition to nature excursions & water sports.
Like it naked? Ski Santa Fe at 12,000 feet, then wallow in luxury at 10,000 Waves, Santa Fe's pine and juniper scented spa. Turn off the winding road to the ski area in the Santa Fe National Forest and you'll enter a beautifully landscaped spa and lodge. Warning: most guests will be wearing little more than a tranquil expression.
Like it campy? If you're on your first romantic getaway this winter with your sweetie, reserve now for your honeymoon at the Madonna Inn, located on a 2200-acre pastoral setting halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The rooms here are good enough to eat. In the dining rooms and the bar, cotton candy pink is the chief flavor you'll find; they call it "Madonna Pink". If the "Spring Flowers" room is available, you'll find you can almost smell the handpainted flowers on the woodwork, the fixtures, and festooned all over the garish bedspreads. "Sugar and Spice" is sweetly done up in pink and red. And if all the sugary decor makes you hungry for something sweet; check out the freshly baked cinnamon rolls at Madonna Inn's Bakery.
Like it cheap? If your schedule or budget doesn't permit time spent in lavish surroundings, here's Stinkydiva's personal recipe for a brief vacation you can have anywhere, cheap! Assemble the following ingredients: salt, sweet almond oil, aromatherapy oils, a scented candle, a good friend. Ok. Turn OFF the T.V. Put on some music you like. Light the candle. Mix oils and salt and rub them over your friend, and vice versa.
Bon voyage!
