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This month Bliss Spa celebrates its partnership with the W Hotel chain with a new location, bliss49, in New York City's W Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue (three more spas will open in 2005 in W Hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago). The New York spa, which features a manicure-pedicure lounge, a shaving station, and women's and men's locker rooms with saunas and aromatherapy-infused steam rooms, will also offer unique treatments like Bliss's Carrot & Sesame Body Buff and Triple Oxygen facial. But the biggest bonus is that hotel guests will...
...Eager to oblige them, castle owners throughout the U.K. and Ireland have been damp-proofing dungeons and touching up turrets, knowing that history sells?along with billable extras such as spa treatments, banquets and hunting lessons. And it's not just pop stars and other celebrities who can afford to swap blue jeans for the blue-blood life. If you and 11 friends can split the minimum $4,565 charge (about $380 each), then the Irish castle of Lismore, tel: (353-58) 54424, is yours for the night. It comes with a butler, a banqueting hall seating 75, a games...
...with the opening of Mongolian Resorts' camp of luxury gers (traditional felt-covered tents) and villas on the nearby Plateau Mongolie. There's already a restaurant, a bar, a gift shop and a library on-site. By the end of May, the camp is slated to feature a spa offering Mongolian massage?which is not as rigorous as it sounds?and a swimming pool will be added in time for summer...
...Group in India has a special department to research guest preferences before their stays. So when a customer who likes steam baths recently reserved a premier bungalow at Oberoi's Mauritius resort, he discovered upon arrival that he wouldn't have to bother walking the 20 yards to the spa because management had installed a personal sauna in the garden of his villa. "It's all about the wow factor," says Henry Gray, general manager of Oberoi's Udaivilas resort in Udaipur, India. "Nothing impresses this type of guest more than to walk in and find that their desires have...
...real test for the online agents may be how they fare against the hotels and airlines, which have begun trying to drive bookings to their own websites with guaranteed lowest rates and amenities like a free spa visit. "The Holy Grail for online travel firms will become dynamic packaging," says analyst Christopher Gutek at Morgan Stanley...