Canyon Ranch Redefines Wellness in Miami Beach

 Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, the newest addition to the Canyon Ranch family, celebrates a soft opening today — offering guests and Canyon Ranch Living residents the most balanced, complete and unparalleled wellness and spa services in South Florida. The facility redefines luxury, health, wellness, and living by offering discerning travelers a world class spa, healthy dining options, all suite accommodations and amenities. Additionally, non-hotel guests will be able to sample Canyon Ranch’s world-renowned culinary offerings as well as beauty services — the Canyon Ranch Grill and Salon, as well as the Living Essentials Boutique are open to the public.

Complemented by its unique oceanfront location along 750 linear feet of unspoiled beach, Canyon Ranch Miami Beach features 150 spacious guest suites and 480 residential units, and offers a comprehensive luxurious wellness experience through a combination of renowned and respected practices incorporating the vibrant environment of Miami Beach. This tropical setting lends itself to the transformation of guests, coupled with the experiential, integrative services found only at Canyon Ranch.

“Canyon Ranch Miami Beach represents a new category of wellness travel, one that will transform not only how people vacation, but the travel and hotel industry in general,” said Matthias Kammerer, Managing Director of Canyon Ranch Miami Beach. “The experience provided by Canyon Ranch Miami Beach integrates all aspects of health and wellness to create a sustaining, life-enhancing transformation among its guests while delivering a complete luxurious travel experience. It is hospitality with a purpose.”

Arquitectonica was responsible for the exterior architecture of the whole property, including the renovation of the 1950’s landmark Carillon Hotel. The hotel has been restored to its celebrated status to become the centerpiece of Canyon Ranch Miami Beach. Spanning six acres, three distinct towers, and 750 feet of beach front; this distinct boutique spa hotel accentuates its urban tropical setting with guest features and amenities designed to inspire wellness vacationing in an atmosphere that will define the luxury of depth.

David Rockwell and Rockwell Group designed the public spaces throughout the property, including a 70,000-square-foot wellness spa with a total of 54 treatment areas. The highlight of the wellness spa is the advanced therapeutic Aquavana(TM).

Canyon Ranch is the first wellness facility to offer a complete European thermal suite of its kind in the United States featuring an oasis of water therapies, thermal spa cabins, tubs and aquathermal bathing experiences.
Additional special amenities for hotel guests include an unparalleled fitness center housing the finest Technogym(R) equipment and featuring a minimum of 30 exercise and movement therapy classes daily; nutritionists; physicians offering both Eastern and Western perspectives and practices; a beauty salon and spa with a complete menu of services; four outdoor pools; a tranquil Palm Court, the Canyon Ranch Living

Essentials Boutique, intimate and relaxing gathering spaces; and two restaurants including Canyon Ranch Grill — an oceanfront restaurant with indoor seating offering award winning, nutritionally balanced, gourmet cuisine and Carillon Cafe — a casual dining experience offering creative cuisine, a tasting room and fine organic wines.
Utilizing natural materials, crafted mosaics, and sophisticated tranquility to enhance the journey, all areas of Canyon Ranch Miami Beach offer spectacular views. Guests may choose from a selection of one- and two-bedroom luxury suites, ranging from 720 to 1,200 square feet. The elegant, supremely comfortable sanctuaries of tranquility include a myriad of modern amenities including: 400-thread-count Mascioni linens, an Extenway Interactive television system and large flat-panel HDTV, Bose Wave(R) radio, plush robes and slippers, High-speed Internet access, Ethernet and wireless, kitchen with granite counters and Kitchen Aid(R) and Miele appliances, and a stylish bathroom with imported stone floors and Italian glass tile mosaic.

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Spa at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami has completed the renovation of six private suites.
Two Nuat Thai Suites include a raised platform designed to accommodate the stretching aspects of Thai massage.

Two Mandarin Suites are adorned with soft silk linens and warm coral tones that enhance the spa’s signature Kundalini Journey treatment.

Two new couples suites include treatment beds and a comfortable sofa for clients to relax between treatments

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Gloria Estefan’s resort and spa to open with little fanfare

Singer-celebrity Gloria Estefan’s sleek Costa d-Este Beach Resort is to open to guests about June 16 – but without fanfare, hotel officials said.

In the next few days the county Building Department expects to clear the way for the opening by approving that the newly-constructed hotel is structurally ready for use, department Operations Coordinator Kery Jones said Wednesday.

“We look forward to its opening,” he said. “We need more hotels.” However, it could be late September or early October before there is an official grand opening of the $50 million, five-story beach-front facility.

Some people have already reserved rooms that have an introductory rate of $189. Rates will rise to $249 beginning Oct. 1 through Dec. 19. The resort has 90 guest rooms, four suites and a large spa.

Rooms feature marble floors, teak headboards and even iPod docking stations, along with wireless internet access.

Details are still being worked out for the opening of the resort’s 85-seat restaurant Oriente that will be under the management of Cuban-American chef David Rodriguez.

The Ocean Drive hotel is built around the core of a five-story hotel purchased for $12.5 million after it was heavily damaged by hurricanes in 2004. The overall architecture was changed, creating a modernist style unique to the hotel.

The showers are round and made of limestone. Large circular opening, of random sizes, punctuate the building’s stark exterior.

Estefan co-owns the 2.4-acre hotel with her husband, Emilio Estefan. They have a home in the Vero Beach area. Benchmark Hospitality International is managing the resort that will employ 70 people.

Costa d-Este Beach Resort will have “keen style and multi-cultural sophistication,” according to the resort’s publicist. Service will be “discreetly attentive.

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Emerald Greens golf resort adds spa, fitness center

The Emerald Greens Resort and Country Club has added a spa in an effort to establish itself as a vacation destination for golfers and nongolfers alike.

The strategy seems to be working, according to sales and marketing director Traci Sherman, who says that package bookings and advance reservations have increased since the spa opened.

Guests at the 50 villas in the Carrollwood Village resort can spend the day on three nine-hole, par 36 courses while riding the fairways in air-conditioned golf carts. Or they can luxuriate at the Oasis Day Spa and Fitness Center.

Resort guests and club members will find cardio equipment, strength training units, free weights, treadmills, personal training and group classes.

Services include:

• Emerald Greens Essential Facial, a 65-minute skin analysis, cleansing, exfoliation with steam and relaxing massage for $85.

• Just for Men facial with deep cleansing, exfoliation with steam, and face, shoulder and scalp massage at $75 for 50 minutes.

Some packages include accommodations, a massage or a facial, and a spa robe for about $370 per night. That rate drops dramatically the longer the guest stays. Call (813) 961-9400.

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13941 Clubhouse Drive, Tampa, FL 33618
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SARASOTA, FL Lion’s Gate Development, along with The Waldorf=Astoria Collection™ and Spa Chakra, Inc., are pleased to announce that a Guerlain Spa Boutique will be included as part of the plan for the Proscenium’s luxury Waldorf=Astoria Sarasota hotel. Representing the first project between Guerlain and the luxury hotel brand, The Waldorf=Astoria® in Manhattan opened a Guerlain Spa Boutique in the main lobby in December 2007 and will debut its first Guerlain Spa in September of this year, occupying much of the 19th floor in the iconic New York landmark. Plans are to include them exclusively in other Waldorf=Astoria Collection Hotels. Spa Chakra, Inc. will develop and manage the spa.

“A Guerlain Spa will be the finishing touch to our future landmark hotel,” remarked Gary Moyer, who, along with his partner and wife, Karen Cook, and Zeb Portanova and Allen Ostroff, is developing The Proscenium. “Adding to the hotel’s already impressive list of amenities, the Guerlain Spa will ensure a comprehensive, luxurious experience for every Waldorf guest who chooses to enjoy its services. It will also be available to the public so anyone wanting to be pampered at a world-class spa will now have that opportunity at The Proscenium. We are fortunate that Hilton Hotels Corporation has partnered with Guerlain to create their spa experiences throughout the Waldorf=Astoria Collection hotels. We couldn’t have asked for a more prestigious component.”

Founded in France in 1828, Guerlain has devoted itself to the art of skincare and beauty. Its founder, Pierre-Francois-Pascal-Guerlain, was a renowned chemist who used rare and natural raw materials to create precious beauty potions. Guerlain research continues today and its products reflect its quest for perfection providing a luxurious experience in all areas of its beauty regimes.

The Guerlain Spa at The Proscenium is planned for 12,000 square feet, with almost 7,400 square feet devoted to the treatment rooms, approximately 3,000 for a fitness center, with the remaining reserved primarily for a salon area. Services will includes a roster of experiences for both men and women. There will be exclusive Guerlain massage and skin therapies, facials, body sublimations, hand and foot therapies and makeup artistry. Guerlain spa services will be available at the Waldorf=Astoria Lido Beach location, as well. One can come for an hour, an entire day or a luxurious weekend retreat. Spa package deals will be planned in conjunction with the hotel and are expected to draw clientele from Naples and Tampa.

“The Guerlain Spa will be in keeping with all of the Waldorf=Astoria amenities: first-class,” Moyer continued. “We look forward to raising the bar for hotel experiences in Sarasota. With our Proscenium project, Lion’s Gate Development plans to meet and exceed all expectations.”

Mike Canizales, Spa Chakra Chairman and CEO, added, “We are excited to announce the collaboration between Guerlain and Waldorf in The Proscenium project, extending our partnership with Waldorf and Hilton in the world’s great cities and sublime destinations. We look forward to providing an exclusive and totally indulgent spa experience for hotel guests and visitors alike at this idyllic location.”

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