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...Wrath, of clotheslines tied to dented and dusty vans, scruffy patches of grass and malodorous toilets. That's not Indio. The 424 campsites wrap around a golf course. At the center of the complex is a clubhouse with an Olympic-size swimming pool, four tennis courts and a health spa with masseuse. Gardeners tend a cheerful landscape of date palms, bougainvillea, hibiscus and petunias...
...story--written by The New Yorker's Anthony Hiss '63--credits Bartley's, then called the Harvard Spa Luncheonette, with alleviating "The Great Hamburg Blight" that had previously plagued the Square...
...Case in point: at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, a nine-hectare mega-resort at the western end of Waikiki Beach, a 25-story tower opening in May will house a 3,900-sq-m spa and "wellness center." One of its main attractions: a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Tomography scanner, the first of its kind to be installed in a resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn...
...that's rich for your budget, consider a more down-to-earth approach to personal pampering at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki's new Na Ho'ola Spa. For the facility, which opened last April, Hyatt engaged practitioners of the traditional Hawaiian art of lomi lomi, an indigenous form of therapeutic massage, to add local flavor to the list of available treatments. Top it off with a full-body seaweed masque or ti leaf wrap and you'll achieve a delightfully warm and squishy state, rather like something on the menu at last night's luau...
Eyelash perms have been around longer, but they too are growing in popularity at places like the Ella Bache Spa in New York City. There, $65 will get you tinting and a perm that involves gluing lashes to a cotton roll and exposing them to curling chemicals for 20 minutes. But be careful; safety questions remain about some of these procedures. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved any permanent dyes for the eye area, and some states outlaw them...