It’s 10:30 a.m. and I’ve been up since the obscene hour of 5 a.m. That’s just sick, but we had to shoot our video at Stillwater Spa at 7 so we didn’t disturb the guests’ spa tranquility once the spa…
How to choose a spa in Tuscany
Renting a villa in Tuscany is so done. With hot springs spouting out everywhere through the rolling countryside, the real fun is at the spa. But how, one may ask, does one choose? It’s not as if there is a…
Choosing an Italian Spa
Give me some stinky sulfur water now! It’s time for me to take a spa vacation – not to a fancy shmancy pampering spa, but to a real Euro-healing spa where the water smells foul, treatment rooms are clinical and…
Spa with the celebrities at the Toronto International Film Festival – or at least give it your best shot
Oh, sure. The uber-famous Toronto International Film Festival may have a new home, the Tiff Bell Lightbox downtown at King and John, but don’t let that fool you. There’s no way that Yorkville has lost its glam, not with its mega-buck…
How Merlin the Magician felt about the healing power of rocks
Recently I checked out a new spa treatment making waves in Japan. Heat waves, that is. Make that infrared heat waves. Iyashi Bedrock Spa is the first spa in North America dedicated to Ganbanyoku, or rock bathing. Read my review…
Get beasty – Add an animal to your next spa treatment
If Demi Moore can lie down with a few leeches, what’s to stop you from trying a wellness therapy with a horse, a snake or even an imaginary dolphin? To read more about animal spa therapies, check out my latest…
Spa review: The secret Isle of Women
Remember the floating palace on the island filled with beautiful women in the James Bond flick Octopussy? Yes, well, right here in Toronto a secret Isle of Women really does exist. And sorry, guys, no men allowed. Body Blitz –…
Bad Ragaz – it’s a gaz, gaz, gaz
To go with my article in today’s Toronto Star on Swiss Spas Go Molecular I thought I would mention 5 quirky facts about my current favourite spa, Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, located between Zurich and the swank ski town St…
Toronto spa reviews – where the heck are the co-ed whirlpools and saunas?
It used to be a woman’s domain but these days more and more couples are going to the spa. (Finally! We’ve convinced men of the glory of spa-ing by incorporating words like sports massage and sauna into our spa-speak in…
Ste Anne’s Country Inn & Spa review
While I’m having my Aveda Botannical Resurfacing Facial at Ste Anne’s, various thoughts are flitting through my mind, like: For a petite young thing, this therapist has seriously strong fingers. This is a really hard facial massage. Is my skin…