As the traditional day to express love, Valentine’s Day can be spent with friends or lovers. Treat yourself and your Valentine to a day of basking in love.
From February 10 through February 15, the new eco-friendly Ocean Spa at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel offers two special Valentine's Day spa experiences, both served with the spa’s signature Valentine's drink, Rose Champagne. Love Potion No. 9 is a rousing concoction of a Moroccan rose massage. The 50-minute Love Potion No. 9 costs $135 and the 80-minute version is $195. Rosy Toes features a Moroccan rose pedicure. The Rosy Toes pedicure is 50-minutes and costs $60. In addition, the Ocean Spa wants to share the love and will give you an extra $25 spa gift card that can be used during your next visit. To book an appointment, call 310-899-4040.
The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel’s SPA LUCE at Hollywood & Highland Center offers four lovelorn treatments for Valentine’s Day. When Chocolate just isn't enough, book a Signature Couples Massage ($230) and toast your love with a glass of champagne and mouth-watering chocolate truffles. SPA LUCE also fuses chocolate and roses for a decadent manicure and pedicure. The Chocolate & Roses Mani/Pedi ($100) uses a chocolate scrub followed by a rose oil massage. For $200, clients can choose three mini services (manicure, pedicure, chocolate hand/foot scrub, mini facial, eye treatment or signature massage) and receive a glass of champagne in the spa’s luxurious relaxation room. In addition, throughout the month of February, spa goers will receive a complimentary Lip Treatment included in any 80-minute facial. Valet parking is available at the hotel. To make an appointment, call (323) 491-1376.
Dtox Spa (323) 665-3869 puts a spark in your romance with its Valentine’s Day Weekend spa specials (February 13 and 14). The Hot Chocolate Facial (50-minutes; $95) is a relaxing and balancing facial designed to nourish and soothe your skin. The treatment includes a two-part cleansing, two-part exfoliation, extractions with the spa’s Dtox Signature facial products, followed with a cocoa heating mask, designed to cleanse and soften. The Floating on Air Facial (50-minutes; $225) will put you on cloud nine with a topical hyperbaric oxygen technology combined with a unique hydrating serum to nourish and encourage cellular renewal. The Floating on Air Facial helps to reduce blemishes giving skin a radiant, rejuvenated and dewy appearance. An added touch during the facial is a chocolate raspberry aromatherapy decollate, shoulder and neck massage. If your body is looking for some love, try the Aroma-Berry-apy Custom Couples Massage (50-minutes; single $95 / couple $190) where one of Dtox’s therapists will custom design your massage incorporating stretching, hot stones, hot packs, and with a hint of chocolate raspberry aromatherapy oils.
Give your favorite person a Valentine’s Day gift that will relax the mind, body and soul. Exclusive to The Peninsula Beverly Hills, The Spa introduces the Sphatika Oxygen Facial, a deeply hydrating facial for a holistic approach to enhanced beauty through wellness. A synergy of rare botanicals, rich emollients, essential oils and sacred earth elements offer immediate, rejuvenating effects. The Sphatika all natural skincare line integrates Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Aromatherapy, Vitamin Therapy, and Crystal Therapy. The line’s “Sphatika Crystal Facial” is the ultimate anti-oxidant, anti-aging skincare experience and is administered to the accompaniment of lilting flute and piano music composed for Sphatika by Chaitanya Sheerin to induce a relaxing, sleep-like state that augments the healing experience. Available for a limited time only, the Sphatika Oxygen Facial is at the spa from January to March 2010 and is $375. To make an appointment, call (310) 975-2854.
Valentine’s Day also coincides with American Heart Month and, what better way to spend the day of hearts than working out your heart? Exercising produces “feel good” chemicals in the brain called endorphins, which make people feel happy, reduce stress levels and increase one’s pleasure-seeking, sex drive. “Couples benefit greatly from doing workouts together,” says Pete Cerqua, author The 90-Second Fitness Solution (Atria Books, paperback $16; hardcover $25). “Either before bed or first thing in the morning, couples should do a workout together - Do a wall sit and plank side by side and support each other or, even better, challenge each other. Chances are you are more likely to stick with any fitness program if you have a support system, especially if that partner is looking hot.” The 90-Second Fitness Solution is available at Barnes and Noble, Borders and Amazon.com.
If a couples workout isn’t your glass of champagne, bring your girlfriends to Level 3 Nightclub at Hollywood & Highland Center where Nightclub Cardio gives a whole new meaning to the dance beat. As one of the hottest, hip-whipping cardio workouts in Hollywood, Nightclub Cardio replaces stilettos with sneakers and makes sweating and exercising a fun and healthy way to melt pounds. Nightclub Cardio is not just about dancing in a nightclub, but is a true cardio workout with easy-to-follow dance steps, jammin’ under laser lights and moving to the music mixes of a live DJ spinning tunes from the 80’s, disco era, hip-hop and pop genres. Nightclub Cardio classes are held every Wednesday from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:00 PM) and cost $12 per class (online registration) or $15 at the door (cash only). To register or for more information, go to www.nightclubcardio.com.
Heading out of town Valentine’s Day weekend may be just what you need to continue the flame of love. The St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco has a Valentine’s Day at the Spa Package that is just too good to pass up. The spa package includes brunch for two in Vitrine (including tax and gratuity), a 60-minute couples massage in Remede spa (tax and gratuity not included), two complimentary glasses of champagne and complimentary parking. The package costs $450. To book, contact Nicole Holland at Nicole.Holland@stregis.com or (415) 284-4070. Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park also has a Valentines Dine and Spa Package which features one night accommodations on February 14, a six-course Valentines tasting menu with wine pairings in the hotel’s Madera Restaurant and two 60-minute massages at Sense, A Rosewood Spa. The package starts at $745 and is based on availability. To make reservations, visit www.rosewoodsandhill.com or call 888-ROSEWOOD.
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not sure i could last through one of those chocolate treatments without taking a lick! aaah!
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