Conde Nast Traveler’s 2009 hot spas list

Conde Nast Traveler’s 13th annual May “Hot List” issue is the ultimate insider’s guide to the newest and hottest hotels, restaurants, spas, and nightclubs opened all over the world in the past year. The editors scoured the globe to check out hundreds of new properties, rigorously evaluating each one on a standard set of criteria. The result is a definitive guide to the world’s most exciting new establishments destined to become instant classics.

A little R&R is just what the doctor ordered, and as luck would have it, this past year delivered a bumper crop of superlative spas from Macau to Mexico. Our reviewers left no hot stone unturned in their effort to identify the 50 transcendent spots for head-to-toe pampering.

U.S. spas on the Hot Spas List include:

California: Spa Montage, Beverly Hills; Spa at Pelican Hill, Newport Beach

Colorado: RockResorts Spa at the Arrabelle, Vail

Florida: Icon Brickell at Viceroy Miami; Lapis at the Fontainebleau,
Miami Beach

Georgia: 29 Spa at the Mansion on Peachtree, Atlanta

Nevada: Spa at Trump, Las Vegas

New Mexico: Spa at Encantado, Santa Fe

New York: Caudalie Spa at the Plaza Hotel; ESPA at the Peninsula; Sense,
a Rosewood Spa, The Carlyle; Shibui Spa, Greenwich Hotel, New York City

Texas: Stoneleigh Spa, Dallas

Source: Conde Nast Traveler

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