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...below the spreading almond trees that fringe the waterfront and wait for Dermochelys coriacea to do its thing. Italian-born owner-manager Piero Guerrini quit his job as a news photographer when he discovered this small corner of paradise, and he created a funky, all-suite hotel and spa - with its own herb garden, so the menu can boast fresh pesto Genovese despite the tropical setting. It attracts an eclectic bunch of guests who keep coming back - a bit like the turtles, which always return to the beach of their birth even after sea voyages that take them half...
Drive a stick into the ground anywhere in Hungary, the saying goes, and thermal water will come surging up. The country has some 100 thermal spas, part of a tradition dating back almost two millenniums. Yet today, when most travelers consider a spa trip, they think Japan or Iceland. Hungary is out to change that. By the end of next year, the government and the hotel industry will have spent some $510 million on up to 100 projects ranging from spa refurbishments to a $12.6 million thermal water park in the eastern town of Debrecen. Some of the best spas...
...SZECHENYI One of Europe's largest spa complexes (pictured), it features 12 thermal pools, indoors and out, and an outpatient clinic for physiotherapy. Built in 1913 and greatly expanded in 1927, this gorgeous spa is a bargain at $8.40 a visit...
...MARGARET ISLAND Shared by a couple of four-star hotels (the 1970s Danubius Thermal Hotel Margitsziget and the turn-of-the-century Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget), this is Budapest's largest private spa. Renovated in 2002, it includes two thermal pools, a swimming pool, sauna and a 400-sq-m fitness center. A one-day package (several relaxation treatments, such as massage and aroma bath, a light meal and access to pools and fitness center) costs $56.50 on weekdays, plus an extra $4.90 on weekends...
...York City, was already much talked about for the supple and intricate design proposals she exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and in a one-woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes...