Destination Hotels & Resorts

Spa Types

Sometimes it's helpful to understand the different types of spas. The luxury spa within the Destination Hotels and Resorts Spa Collection represent Resort and Hotel Spas — but there are many other types of spas you might want to consider trying as you become a spa aficionado.

City Hotel or Urban Spas

Located in metropolitan hotels, some of these spas are open only to hotel guests, while others are accessible to the general public.

Day Spas

Day spas offer a simple, flexible way to incorporate spa treatments into your everyday life. Offering massages, facials and body wraps that can last an hour, or spa packages that can last up to a whole day, day spas can be freestanding or connected to health clubs, hotels or department stores.

Destination Spas

Destination spas offer a full-immersion spa experience in which all guests participate. These spas focus exclusively on lifestyle improvement, health enhancement, and self-renewal in the company of like-minded people. All-inclusive programs provide fitness activities, nutritious spa cuisine, various therapeutic spa and body treatments, educational classes, and often mind/body/spirit offerings to help you jump-start a new, more healthful lifestyle.

Eco-Spas

Eco-spas are set in a natural or protected area and have a major commitment to incorporating environmentally friendly practices, such as organic gardening, water conservation and ecological building design. These spas also encourage sensitivity to the natural environment and wildlife through education of spa-goers, and may also promote the well-being of local people and culture by preserving indigenous healing traditions and ingredients.

Resort and Hotel Spas

Resort and hotel spas, like those featured in the Destination Hotels and Resorts Spa Collection, offer a full-service spa as well as a wide variety of dining options and recreational facilities. Available activities might include golf, tennis, horseback riding, skiing and water sports. Spa treatments and services generally complement a hotel stay or vacation activities at a resort.