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Creativity on the Spa Menu! The Ultimate Las Vegas Day Spa - Qua Baths & Spa at Caesar's Palace
Qua Baths & Spa: a Las Vegas Day Spa or Stay Spa at Caeser's Palace Featuring Unique Spa Treatmentsby Susie Ellis
From the Qua Baths & Spa menu at Caesar's Palace: Bath Liqueur, Sleep Health, Hypnosis for Wellness, Raindrop Therapy (registered), Morning Dew, Banana Leaf Body Wrap (with incense), Dilo Wrap (oil from Fiji), Volcanic Clay Body Mask, Chai Tea Mud Mask, Ten-Second Tan, Dancing Waters, Niagara Falls, Sand & Foam, Poker Face (an anti aging facial), Arabian Knights Facial (with Arabian coffee), Couples Lunaception (fertility-heightening experience), Red Carpet Facial, Vino Veritas (with Chardonnay Grapes), and the Seven Sacred Pools Bath.
Jennifer Lynn, the very impressive spa director, has created a very unique and interesting menu and experience!
It's my last day at the Virtuoso meeting at the Bellagio in Vegas and I decided to email Jennifer at the new Qua Baths & Spa at Caesar's to see if Sallie and I might be able to come over for a tour that evening. Jennifer gave us a “hard hat” tour last year and we were anxious to see the results.
In typical Jennifer fashion, I hear back from someone within an hour. Alyssa has made all the arrangements and even booked us in to experience some of their new treatments – a Sleep Health Aromatherapy Massage with Hypnosis for me, and a Chakra Balancing treatment for Sallie. We were happy to accept!
The spa’s interior design is very pleasing and successful in taking the Caesar’s Palace over-the-top Roman theme into the spa with an understated and contemporary interpretation of Roman bathing. Photos show it better than I can describe so click through for a tour. The concept for the spa was equally effective as Jennifer pulled together a nice blend of sophistication, intimacy, pampering, wellness, uniqueness and a bit of “Vegas-ness” for a spa menu that is interesting to read. .
In addition to the interesting menu of treatments, she incorporated words and concepts such as:
Artisans (rather than spa therapists)
Robe Sauna (your robe stays warm while you are in the baths)
Tepidarium (rather than warm Jacuzzi)
Caldarium (rather than hot Jacuzzi)
Frigidarium (rather than cold plunge)
Laconium (rather than warm Sauna)
Artic Ice Rooms (falling snow, heated floors and benches)
Tea Program (Tea Sommelier in the relaxation lounges)
Crystal Body Art (Swarovski crystal art applied to the body)
Dream coach (interpretation Journey)
The best value? Book a 50 minute Swedish Massage and stay for several hours. They waive the $45 facility fee which entitles you to the fitness area (where the cardio bikes are in a circle to encourage their “social spa-ing concept), all the baths and thermal rooms, and a generous supply of amenities. Total price $140 which isn’t bad considering you can lose that at the blackjack table much more quickly and you surely won’t feel as buffed and polished when you leave.
*By the way, if you want to search for spas in other areas which might have some of these interesting spa facilities and services, use the Spa Search on SpaFinder.com which allows you to click a variety of treatments and ammenities that you might want.
Labels: conferences, spa treatments
posted by Susie at Saturday, August 25, 2007
1 Comments:
Just getting ready to leave Vegas but thought I would give you my spa report. I absolutely LOVED Qua.... probably my favorite spa experience since I have been with SpaFinder. I didn't get a treatment (I actually care more about using amenities at spas than treatments, I am very hard to please massage - wise) . I think whoever designed the spa gave a lot of thought to the user experience.
I love how when you enter you feel transported already with the sound, light, water, room transitions etc. I loved the roman baths, I actually slept or almost slept in those (longest I have ever been in a Jacuzzi) they are perfectly designed so you can sleep and lay your head back. I also loved the rain shower, which had really intense pressure, like a massage.... I liked it so much that I just laid down on the ground and let the water massage my body.
I also loved how the tranquility space was lit low and with furniture so you could put your feet up. I loved how the lanconium was designed, I slept in that room too ( Can you tell how exhausted I have been lately?) I think the artic snow room was gimmicky and purposeless.
I think they could train their staff better on speaking Sotto Voce when calling names out in the Tranquility Space (I don't like to hear yelling at a spa) but other than those minor things it was fabulous! I left feeling intoxicated with feelings of euphoria and bliss... so incredible!
I then went to the Bellagio's spa at 7 am today. I think it was very poorly designed and conceived. I don't like how blaring all the lights were. The Jacuzzis had a lot of sharp edges so you could not lay your head back and relax or sleep. There were no lounge chairs where you could stretch your legs out to rest or sleep (can you tell that is a recurrent theme for me?) The only place I slept or could sleep was in the sauna.
In the tranquility area, that is right next to the area where women are drying their hair with blow dryer's. the furniture there looked like it came from a garage sale, very low end looking. It seems like the spa is simply there as an adjunct to the fitness center and not really designed as a haven of relaxation in it of itself.
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