Spa Treatments – luxury or Quintessential?

Howler Staff - JAN 31, 2017
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Spa treatments have long been held as the quintessential escape to self-indulgence, pampering and luxury. Get away from it all and just let go. Costa Rica provides many options from the beach massage to the luxury spa.

The beach massage is a one-hour escape with the breeze wafting over you and the sound of the oceans, if also the occasional dog and kid screaming. But it’s still a pampering luxury.

My quest to achieve the ultimate in relaxation and pampering took me high up on the hill just south of Tamarindo. In this secluded area sits an oasis in the middle of tropical paradise pleasures. You are greeted with a peaceful view of the lush forest and off in the distance to the west the Pacific with its vast expanse stretching to the far beyond. This oasis is a small luxury hotel with six luxury rooms and a beautiful infinity pool to relax and rejuvenate your physical and spiritual being.

The savoir-faire begins in one of its five treatment rooms that have open back walls and give a full 180 view of the jungle below and sea beyond, allowing you to enjoy this ultimate spa experience without missing any of Costa Rica’s natural beauty for even a moment. Fresh, fragrant breezes waft over your indulgent, exotic treatments.

Drawing from the finest fruits, flowers, and other gifts of Guanacaste, Los Altos de Eros Spa transforms them into ultimately sublime spa experiences. Ylang-ylang flowers, the essential base for the famed Chanel No. 5, are harvested into a mesmerizingly fragrant spritzer that cools, refreshes and intoxicates before and during treatments. With the water feature and spa music in the background, this spritzer and the warm jungle air alone elevate this spa experience to a unique and truly hypnotic indulgence. But that is just the beginning.

The enchanting spritzer is only the first of many tropical delights this spa brings to tantalize and indulge your soul. The papaya wrap is all-natural organic papaya, the whole fruit blended then applied cool. Wrapped in plastic, the papaya’s magic vitalizes your skin as you warm inside your sweet tropical cocoon. If papaya isn’t your thing, perhaps a volcanic mud wrap suits you better—with a few hard granules for light exfoliation, the local volcanic mud draws out impurities and adds minerals. Either way, indulge your skin in some of the finest skin treatments available anywhere in the world, all natural, all local, all sublimely exquisite.

Three natural facial options bring delightful indecision. The cucumber lime is actual thin slices of fresh organic cucumber applied to your clean and exfoliated facial skin, fresh from the lime treatment that kills bacteria and removes impurities. The red clay is found naturally in certain parts of Guanacaste, and extracts impurities while it revitalizes. The oatmeal honey is also all-natural, rejuvenating with antibacterial, replenishing, healing elements.

Perhaps an Indonesian soaking tub is what your soul craves. Choose from a milk tub or one filled with tropical fruit and flowers, again offering the area’s natural treasures to delight your senses and ease your soul. Or try a chocolate dream body scrub or perhaps one of oatmeal, honey and milk. Natural, local cacao infused with chocolate nibs and rich local honey and milk form the bases for these titillating indulgences. Choose three experiences of five options, one of which is also a 90-minute massage or mani-pedi. Follow up these transcendent treatments with a gourmet lunch of fresh organic tropical dishes, beverages and desserts, all hand-prepared by the in-house chef to delight your senses even further.

Unique small touches move this spa experience into the transcendent—warm chamomile tea bag compresses on your eyes whenever you lie face-up, extensive scalp massage while in your cocoon wrap, and arm and leg rubs as your facial is setting, all on top of frequently spritzed ylang-ylang and an open-air room elevate this spa to etheric levels. Your every delight is their only concern. Angels could happily indulge themselves here as well as we mere mortals. Los Altos de Eros is truly a hidden treasure awaiting your presence.

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Los Altos de Eros
Boutique Hotel & Spa
Costa Rica

Phones: 8850-4222, 8850-4203.
email: info@losaltosdeeros.com
web: losaltosdeeros.com

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