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h o t el d e s k
At Canyon Ranch Miami Beach,
guests can choose from a variety
of body scrubs, including a Mango
Sugar Glo or Coffee Scrub.
The jewel in the Canyon Ranch crown is its Life Enhancement
CANYON RANCH
MORE THAN A SPA, A LIFESTYLE
carla hunt
Recommend's 2013 Readers' Choice Awards winner for Best
Hotel/Resort in the Spa Category is Canyon Ranch. Certainly, we
are far from the first in the media to shower accolades on one of
the world's most famous luxury spa, health and well-being brands,
for Canyon Ranch consistently garners top ratings from travel
and spa magazines. Canyon Ranch, in fact, is an 11-time winner
of Conde Nast Traveler's "Best Destination Spa" award; in 2011,
Travel + Leisure readers placed Canyon Ranch Miami Beach
among the "Top 10 Spas in the World"; Spa Magazine and Spa
Finder have bestowed other honors, from "Favorite Day Spa" and
"Favorite Cruise Spa," to "Best Spa Cuisine," "Best Spa Cooking
Classes," "Best Medical Spa," "Best Spa for Men," and "Best Spa
for Going Solo."
Canyon Ranch pioneered the wellness lifestyle when it debuted
its founding property, Canyon Ranch Tucson, in 1979. "Back
then, we couldn't have offered all the things we do today," says
company spokesperson Meredith Ford. "Today's consumer is eager
to embrace the four traditional pillars on which Canyon Ranch
rests: nutrition, exercise, medical services and spa, and nowadays
we are adding spirituality. Come next year, we will be celebrating in
different ways our 35 years of empowering people to live healthier,
longer and more joyful lives through fitness, nutrition, stress management
and integrated wellness."
In this day and age of the pursuit of both luxury travel and
healthy living, Ford feels that the Canyon Ranch all-inclusive and
all-caring business is good business for travel agents. "Ours is a
really appealing product for agents, for our commissions cover
not only hotels but all aspects of the client's vacation package,
which normally run three, four or seven nights, depending on
the property."
According to Ford, 25 percent of Canyon Ranch's business
comes from travel agents, "and we work closely with industry
groups such as Virtuoso and Signature."
Since Canyon Ranch Tucson opened its doors it has gone on
to become one of North America's most famous spa, health and
wellness meccas. Set amid a gorgeous 70-acre spread of Sonoran
Desert landscape, Canyon Ranch Tucson continues to live up to
its reputation as an innovator in the spa industry. Most recently,
according to Ford, "we have introduced features to increase male
business, such as Primitive Outdoor Skills workshops-fire-making
and native awareness are just a couple of examples. Additionally,
we have added innovative physical activities such as pickleball and
X-treme Outdoor Boot Camp."
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Program, which operates out of a separate complex with its own
spa and health center, staffed with all the expertise and resources
guests need to pursue their wellness goals.
The second destination spa is Canyon Ranch Lenox, a sprawling
complex constructed around an 1890 Italianate mansion. Ford
points out that while the Canyon Ranch Lenox property offers
the same destination-immersion type of vacation experience as
desert-bound Tucson, "its location alone gives clients all new
experiences and activities that come with the changing seasons of
New England's Berkshire Hills, and we offer a full range of outdoor
activities to complement each season. Additionally, guests benefit
from being in one of the most active art centers in the country."
According to Ford, the Lenox property "attracts guests-always
a hit for a girlfriend getaway-from the tri-state area on the east
coast who book a 3-night package and for the next visit, head for a
longer stay at Canyon Ranch Tucson."
The company's newest health and hospitality model is Canyon
Ranch Miami Beach, which combines the flexibility of a la carte
services in a five-star resort with the lifestyle choices of a health
resort. The family-friendly, all-suite resort sports four pools; a range
of fitness facilities including a pampering spa, a physician-therapist-physiologist-staffed
Health and Wellness Center; and three
restaurants whose chefs create protein-rich dishes balanced by
fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
SpaClub, meanwhile, is the Canyon Ranch day-spa model now
in play at the Venetian and Palazzo hotels in Las Vegas. It's designed
to offer guests respite from the action of the city, a place to
relax, renew and re-energize, taking a massage, climbing the 40-ft.
rock wall or adjourning to Aquavana, an oasis of water therapies.
SpaClub went east last year to create a spa and fitness experience
in partnership with The Homestead, a historic, family-friendly hotel
in Hot Springs, VA. SpaClub here has its own style Aquavana, a
European-inspired, aqua-thermal oasis where adults-only guests
enjoy "taking the waters" from mineral springs that have drawn
travelers since the mid-1700s, including Thomas Jefferson.
SpaClub, incidentally, also goes to sea aboard the Queen Mary
2, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas. While at 20,000
sq. ft., the SpaClub aboard the Queen Mary 2 is the largest spa
afloat, and all share common features in their havens of wellness
and rejuvenation: aqua-thermal environments, massage and body
treatments, fitness classes and workouts, fitness assessments,
specialized fitness services, personal training, and Canyon Ranch
dining selections on shipboard menus.
Bottom line: Canyon Ranch was certainly ahead of its time in
promoting a product that is all the rage today-luxury vacations
focused on doing what's good for the mind, body and soul. ●
contact information
Canyon Ranch: (888) 239-5149; canyonranch.com
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http://www.canyonranch.com
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Recommend December 2013
Editor's Notes
Hotel Desk: Canyon Ranch
Tour Talk: Insight Vacations
17th Annual Recommend Readers' Choice Awards Winners
Cruising 2013
Discovering North America
Caribbean Trends
Anguilla Travel Agent Specialist Program
Asia & The South Pacific in the Rearview Mirror
Mexico 2013
Latin America in 2013 and Beyond
Africa + The Middle East Continue to Make Stides
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