After your treatments, keep your robe on a while and take advantage of ESPA's steam rooms and "Experience" showers
After so much dining and hotel-ing, we thought you could use the kind of deal that restores both mind and body. ESPA, the spa at New York’s Peninsula Hotel, is offering a 38%-off treatment package that’s so good I plan on booking it myself.
Here’s what you get:
* One 60-minute treatment (either a holistic massage—choose from aromatherapy, deep tissue, Swedish, hot stone, or tension relief—an intensive facial, or a sunless tanning session)
* One 15-minute treatment, your choice between an express facial or a scalp massage (I vote for the scalp massage—they use thick mud that really soothes the skin)
* A bento-box lunch of tofu, chicken, or poached salmon with fruits and vegetables
* Two travel-size ESPA products such as moisturizer or therapeutic tea tree gel
For all of this, you pay only $261 (including taxes). Normally, these components would add up to $422, so you’re saving 38%.
Like all ESPA-goers, you have access to the steam room and the relaxation room (think, plush daybeds, a calming soundtrack, and plenty of cucumber water). Unlike others booking treatments at the spa, however, this package affords you use of the sundeck, pool, and fitness center, as well as complimentary yoga and core classes. Note: We did not factor in gratuity. If your treatments are outstanding, which we assure you they will be, add 15-20% to your bill.
Dates: The offer is valid through December 31, 2009.
How to book: Call 212-903-3910 and mention the "Spa-cation Package."
Condé Nast Traveler approved: This ESPA at The Peninsula, New York was one of the magazine’s 2009 Hot List spas.
Thank you for being a devoted Deal of the Day reader! Although we often post, as you say, "real blockbuster deals before anyone else," our main focus is reporting any deal that’s a great value.
We know this ESPA promotion has been around for a while, but the good thing is, it is still around. Here's how pricing breaks down: Normally, you would pay $243.75 for the treatment ($195 for the 60-minute treatment + $48.75 for the 15-minute addition), $50 for lunch, $75 to access the pool and fitness center, $40 for the products, and 4.5% taxes, so about $427 total. That's a little higher than the price we were told yesterday, so with the $261 promotion, you're actually saving 39%.
$213.75 may seem like an inflated price for lunch, a 15-minute treatment, two spa products, and access to the pool and gym, but the point is: that's what ESPA would normally charge, and now they're charging less. Maybe people who wouldn't normally choose to splurge on Peninsula's beautiful ESPA can do so now, as it's more affordable. That chance is part of what Deal of the Day is here to provide for our readers.
And here's an added bonus: ESPA is running out of the travel-size products. In their place, the spa is now offering a toiletry bag and a $30 gift certificate towards a future treatment.