Love it or not, Valentine’s Day is approaching. It also falls on a holiday weekend this year, presenting an opportunity to indulge in a three-day getaway.
According to the Global Wellness Institute, a nonprofit organization for the industry, wellness tourism has grown into a $894 billion industry. This year, hotels and resorts are creating experiences and packages to seduce couples with serenity and connection. Customized massages, relationship workshops and nature immersion: Here are six spots where you can add a dose of well-being to a weekend of romance.
Greenough, Mont.
Paws Up Montana
With 37,000 acres and more than 70 activities, Paws Up Montana creates packages to help narrow things down for guests. For its “Romance Package,” that means three days of solitude, serenity and connection.
Accommodations for the package are within the gated adults-only part of the resort. These 12 “Hauses,” tucked away in groves of pine and tamarack, feature expansive windows, modern kitchens, king-size beds, fireplaces and outdoor hot tubs. Leather couches and fuzzy throws add the cozy factor.
The package includes a private sound bathing (using crystal bowls to create vibrations that promote relaxation) or yoga session and a one-hour private trail ride with a guide. Additional activities include hiking or snowshoeing along the 100 miles of on-property trails, stargazing and ice skating at night.
In addition to a welcome bottle of sparkling wine or Champagne and dessert for two, a nightly tasting menu, featuring dishes like delicata squash with foie gras ganache, and dry-aged duck with huckleberries, is included.
The three-night Romance Package starts at $5,262 per person and includes all meals, Champagne, airport transfers, use of a Lexus S.U.V. on the property and tips.
Lanai, Hawaii
Four Seasons Resort Lānaʻi
With a population of just over 3,000 people and only two resorts, the Hawaiian island of Lanai is an intimate destination. Four Seasons Resort Lānaʻi, on a red lava cliff, embraces that intimacy, offering opportunities for quiet reflection and connection.
Japanese minimalism infuses the 213 spacious rooms and suites with teak walls, handwoven rugs and bathrooms with rainfall showers.
At the spa, a four-hour “Suite Serenity” experience includes body treatments and facials for two followed by light bites in one of the four suites for couples.
For a more focused experience, the resort’s wellness supervisor, Caroline Joseph Reese, leads a 75-minute healing session that is customized for each couple and might incorporate meditation, breathing exercises and other practices.
Additional activities at the resort include a private meditation session under the stars ($500 for two) and a guided sunrise hike along Hulopoe Bay to the landmark known as Pu’upehe, or Sweetheart Rock ($100 for two).
Room rates start at $1,475 and include round-trip travel on Lanai Air from Honolulu, airport transfers and town shuttle. The Suite Serenity experience for two is $1,800, and the Couple’s Personalized Healing Session is $695.
Austin, Texas
Miraval
Miraval, a small collection of resorts dedicated to well-being, has been offering classes focused on the body, mind and spirit for 30 years. In February, the spotlight will be on activities that are designed to appeal to couples.
The company’s Austin property sits within a nature preserve in Texas Hill Country, overlooking Lake Travis. Thirteen lodges contain 117 rooms and suites, each decorated in a contemporary ranch style with earthy tones and amenities like meditation cushions and Tibetan music bowls. It’s also a digital device-free property.
Along with activities such as tarot, hiking and chakra meditation, there are special relationship-focused workshops. “Boundary Setting for Success” offers tools to make communicating easier, and “Mindful Relationships” explores how to deepen connections with oneself and a significant other. “Sacred Union Session” teaches breathing techniques, gratitude rituals and other practices.
Rates start at $1,110 for a double room, including three meals per day; snacks and nonalcoholic drinks; a $175 nightly per-person resort fee can be used toward spa treatments, experiences, use of spa amenities and tips.
Whitefield, N.H.
Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa
Situated on 1,700 acres in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, the 141-room Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa is defined by the surrounding landscape. Half of the rooms, traditionally decorated with rich wood headboards and floral curtains, have mountain views as do common areas, including an expansive lounge.
The vastness of the mountains also plays a starring role in the resort’s “Romance Package.” The experience starts with private access to the spa’s Grand Tower, a relaxation area with 360-degree views, before moving to a treatment room for a 50-minute couple’s massage. Though a light-pressure Swedish massage is part of the package, couples can also opt for hot stone ($30 per person) or aromatherapy ($12 per person) upgrades.
Outside the spa, couples can take a self-guided snowshoe journey along a dedicated loop on the property with spaces for reflection, or with a private meditation or yoga class ($150 per couple).
The two-night “Romance Package” starts at $1,470 for two in a classic queen room, and includes breakfast, the two-hour Tower Spa experience, taxes and resort fees.
Finland
Skýra Retreat
The focus of the new 15-room Skýra Retreat, which opened in Finnish Lapland this winter, is rest and renewal. “I had in my mind to create a quiet place far away from all the noise of the modern and hectic world,” said the founder, Susanne Hulbekkmo.
The property includes six suites built within a restored 1950s schoolhouse on Lake Norvajärvi, along with eight newly constructed log villas and a larger villa for bigger parties. All feature Arctic pine, plush linens and patterned wallpaper, and 10 also have private saunas. A lakeside spa offers fireside lounging, unisex saunas, outdoor hot tubs and a path to the lake for ice plunging so guests can experience the hot-cold cycle of traditional Nordic spas.
In addition to the spa, there are daily activities such as morning yoga, afternoon forest bathing and nighttime sound baths. The three-night “Heart of Winter Retreat” package includes a 60-minute couple’s massage, a private sightseeing excursion to the nearby town of Rovaniemi and a “Love Coaching” session, which includes mindful movement and trust exercises, and culminates in writing love letters that, on the right night, can be read aloud under the Northern Lights.
The three-night package for two, offered from Feb. 9 to 16, includes three meals a day and airport transfers for 6,334 euros, or about $7,580.
Bermuda
Rosewood Bermuda
Bermuda is synonymous with romantic pink sand beaches. Lesser known, but equally beguiling, are the island’s hidden caves that drip with shimmering stalactites, and which inspired a Valentine’s spa package at Rosewood Bermuda.
The 88-room resort includes manicured gardens and a golf course, all overlooking the turquoise waters of Castle Harbour. Rooms and suites blend pastel hues, coastal blues and crisp whites with stately furniture and spacious bathrooms.
For Valentine’s weekend, a special “Whispers of the Earth” spa package includes an “Energy Balancing” massage (including techniques like reiki, reflexology and shiatsu) and a “Radiance Crystal” facial for two that involves the use of rose quartz. Post-treatment, couples can relax by the outdoor reflection pool.
The resort can help couples book a tour of the Crystal Caves ($24 for one cave; $35 for two, plus transportation), which feature thousands of stalactites, calcite mineral deposits and other geological formations.
Rooms start at $600. The 2.5-hour “Whispers of the Earth Valentine’s Weekend Spa Package” is $650 per person.
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