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Enjoy a Pampered Escape at a Spa Bed and Breakfast

Story Published on May 6, 2008 ⋅  Email this Story ⋅  Print this Story ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

If you’d like to escape from the hurried pace of the everyday and treat yourself to a little pampering, a trip to a spa bed and breakfast might be just the ticket. These inns and B&Bs offer a mix of great locations, idyllic accommodations and a variety of spa treatments.Fields of wildflowers, waterfalls and ponds where swans swim delicately across the water adorn the majestic 70-acre grounds at Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa in Milton, N.Y. The 17th-century inn offers beautifully decorated guest rooms with fireplaces and whirlpool tubs as well as scrumptious breakfasts and afternoon.

In the spa, this B&B offers Swedish, Shiatsu, and Hot Stone massages; among others. In the Hot Stone treatment, hot river stones are used to bring relief to tense muscles and sore joints. The Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa also offers facials, and back skin treatments, and has a geothermally heated, solar powered salt water mineral pool!

The Sanford House Inn & Spa in Arlington, Texas, affords close access to Dallas and a huge variety of attractions, but guests don’t even need to leave the grounds to enjoy a blissful, relaxing vacation. The guest rooms and romantic cottages are filled with beautiful furnishings and romantic dcor. The cottages are a perfect romantic retreat, affording ultimate privacy as well as a fireplace and Jacuzzi tub. Pamper yourself further with a trip to the Spa and Salon. The spa offers massage therapy, facial therapy, body wraps, bronzing, and even Botinal, a treatment similar to Botox, but without the pain of needles.

Guests at award-winning Pearson’s Pond Luxury Bed and Breakfast Inn can walk to a glacier, relax in a hot tub surrounded by towering pines, or snuggle up in front of the fireplace in their room. The inn’s Adventure Spa features everything you need to revive your body and spirit, from the mountain biking and hiking trails where one can commune with nature to the relaxing massage therapy. The innkeepers have art supplies and musical instruments for guest use, as well as outdoor gear.

The Cheshire Cat Inn & Spa in Santa Barbara, California is located in two side-by-side Victorian mansions graced with high ceilings, and pagoda-type bay windows. There’s also a coach house and two cottages for you to unwind in, just minutes from downtown. However, if you want to get serious about relaxation, partake in the Cheshire Cat’s many forms of massage. This B&B’s signature ‘Cheshire Cat’ massage uses a combination of aromatic oils of citrus, rosemary and ginger to relieve the stressed back, neck, shoulders and scalp. The Magic Garden massage features a full-body Swedish massage and foot reflex treatment, using the essential oils of lavender, chamomile, and geranium for pure stress relief. There’s even a safe and comfortable prenatal massage to meet the special needs of the expectant mother!

Daniel Webster was a famous 19th-century U.S. lawyer and politician. So legendary was his eloquence, that a story was written called ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’ in which Webster defeats Lucifer in a court case for a man’s soul. However, the Plum Beach Spa at the Dan’l Webster Inn and Spa (Sandwich, M.A.) will do anything but bedevil you, thanks to its many soothing treatments. (This historic inn is named for Webster, who stayed at the tavern on this site regularly between 1815 and 1851.) Among its luxuries are massages, various body treatments, facials and add-ons, waxing, hand & foot treatments, a Men’s Spa, and bridal services. The Dan’l Webster Inn and Spa also offers overnight spa/accommodations packages.

About the Author:

Jane Leisteiner is an expert on inns and loves travel writing. To learn further on Texas bed and breakfasts or New York bed and breakfasts or additional regions, check out the American Historic Inns website.

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