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FEATURE/Luxury4less.com announces its Spas of the World Collection.


Feature/Travel/High-Tech Editors

FEATURE...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--May 9, 2000

Stressed Out? How about some Bindi Bindi can mean: Jayy.
  • Bindi (decoration), a forehead decoration, often a red dot, mostly worn by women in South Asia
  • Bindi, a slang term for the Mumbai/Bombay dialect of Hindi, or Bambaiya Hindi
  • Bindi (plant), also known as bindii or
 Balancing in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , A

Brisk Hike in the Alps or a Moor Mud Wrap in Mexico?

Luxury4less.com, the most luxurious travel destination on the Internet, has added an international spa division appropriately named `Spas of the World'. Now with a single mouse click, everyone from harried executives to bleary-eyed cyber travelers can "visit" spas from Baden-Baden to Rajasthan, with stops at the finest spas in France, Italy, Switzerland, and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. .

To create this international spa collection, Greg DeClemente, Executive Director - Leisure Development and the luxury4less.com staff evaluated elite spa offerings from over a dozen countries and chose only those that provided service, cuisine, stress reduction and beauty regimens that met luxury4less.com's exacting standards. "Our clients are well-traveled, very discerning and value-conscious too," DeClemente said. "And when they want a relaxing and rejuvenating vacation they expect us to provide the absolute best there is at a very competitive price."

True to form for luxury4less.com, these spa packages are anything but ordinary. At the Rajvilas Spa in India, for instance, ancient ayurvedic, western and holistic health holistic health,
n a concept in which concern for health requires a perspective of the individual as an integrated system rather than as a collection of parts and functions.
 traditions are combined to create an unusual treatment menu, which includes Solah Shringar body scrubs and Indian head massages. Or, for those who want something really soothing, the Spa at Las Ventanas Al Paraiso in Baja, Mexico will tickle your toes with their delightful sage foot bath. The Golden Door Spa at Las Casitas Village in Puerto Rico offers Bindi balancing, applying herbs and oils specially designed for your constitution to energy points on the body to detoxify de·tox·i·fy
v.
1. To counteract or destroy the toxic properties of a substance.

2. To remove the effects of poison from something, such as the blood.

3.
 and balance your sense of well-being. A swim in the natural hot springs pool complete with plankton plankton: see marine biology.
plankton

Marine and freshwater organisms that, because they are unable to move or are too small or too weak to swim against water currents, exist in a drifting, floating state.
, sauna and steam is far from the usual dip at the Terme di Saturnia spa in Grosseto, Italy. Closer to home, the Regent Spa in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  offers color therapy, phytotherapy and Sidda Vaidya vaidya /vai·dya/ (vi´dyah) [Sanskrit "one who knows"] in ayurveda, a physician.  therapy.

Those who think of spas as weight loss centers better think again. While all offer healthy, balanced and dietetic dietetic /di·e·tet·ic/ (di?ah-tet´ik) pertaining to diet or proper food.

di·e·tet·ic
adj.
1. Of or relating to diet.

2.
 cuisine, many of the luxury4less.com offerings feature gourmet menus for those not watching their waistlines. For example, Les Fermes de Marie, a gorgeous villa set in the French countryside, pleases the palate with its superb regional cuisine. At The Cambridge Beaches Spa in Bermuda, English traditions are upheld each day at high tea.

Outside of the treatment rooms and exercise facilities, all of the spas at luxury4less.com are on breathtaking properties; some in well-known, but secluded destinations, and others in off-the-beaten-track locations.

In addition to the spa division, visitors to luxury4less.com can enjoy vacations from categories like `Luxury Cruises and Private Yachts,' `Grand Tours and Singular Experiences,' `Super Luxe luxe  
n.
1. The condition of being elegantly sumptuous.

2. Something luxurious; a luxury.



[French, luxury, from Latin luxus.
,' and `Feeling Adventurous?' For those visitors who want a custom-tailored vacation or simply have questions about one of the existing trips, the site offers a "personal concierge" service that is the only one of its kind on any Internet travel site. The personal concierge can also deliver on seemingly impossible tasks, such as obtaining tickets to the Olympics or British Open and securing a private box at the Kirov. The "4less" portion of luxury4less refers to value-added amenities and aggressive pricing that are only available to luxury4less.com and its clients.

In addition to designing perfect vacations, luxury4less.com specializes in unique, once-in-a-lifetime adventures. Among the options...visiting the wreckage of the Titanic in a high-tech submarine, rocketing toward the stratosphere at more than twice the speed of sound in a Russian MIG 25 Foxbat jet, or taking the `Steps to Space' challenge course, where graduating puts you on one of the first sub-orbital flights available to non-astronauts.

Log on, luxuriate lux·u·ri·ate  
intr.v. lux·u·ri·at·ed, lux·u·ri·at·ing, lux·u·ri·ates
1. To take luxurious pleasure; indulge oneself.

2. To proliferate.

3. To grow profusely; thrive.
 and dream at www.luxury4less.com.

Logos and Spa Photos are available from Nancy Perelli at info@luxury4less.com
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