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...range of general-interest activities. "If a child can explore something he's passionate about at age 10, like photography, he's got a head start," says Barry Vigon, camp director for Pali Overnight Adventures, which, in addition to Hollywood Stunt Camp, operates Secret Agent Camp, Acting Academy, Spa Camp and Rock Star Camp (price: $1,435 for a one-week session). "We've come to realize that camp is much more than recreation," says Marla Coleman, past president of the American Camp Association (ACA). "It's a total education experience...
Perhaps inevitably, such frenetic activity, combined with rising concerns about health and fitness, has led to another trend: camps for wellness. Tina Krinsky likes to think her company kicked off the rage four years ago when it launched a partnership with the upscale spa Canyon Ranch on the campus of Bryn Mawr College ($1,445 a week) in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She asserts that even though the male and female campers have the option of the occasional pedicure or facial, they spend the majority of their time exercising, working with personal trainers, learning about proper nutrition and getting serene through...
...They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls and 50-in. plasma screens) and a butler service. Dining facilities comprise 14 restaurants - four are open now, with 10 others due to open in the coming year - and a number of plush bars and lounges. A spa and fitness center will also open by the end of 2005. One question remains: Should you arrive by yacht, helicopter or in one of the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms? tel: (971) 2 690 9000; www.emiratespalace.com
...They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls and 50-in. plasma screens) and a butler service. Dining facilities comprise 14 restaurants?four are open now, with 10 others due to open in the coming year?and a number of plush bars and lounges. A spa and fitness center will also open by the end of 2005. One question remains: Should you arrive by yacht, helicopter or in one of the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms...
When Seaside is completed, there are to be several hundred houses, dozens of stores, workshops, a town hall, a kind of spa and an outdoor theater. Forty houses have been finished, six are under construction, and 20 more parcels of land have been sold. (Lots now go for $25,000 and up, more than twice the price of four years ago.) In addition, an exquisite Palladian beach pavilion has been built, another pavilion is half done, and two small restaurants are operating next door to an open-air crafts market. Footpaths wind through the built-up eastern third of Seaside...