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	Name:	Anantara Resort & Spa Hua Hin - Anantara Spa
	Address:	43/1 Phetkasem Beach Road Hua Hin, Thailand 77110
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	Phone:	66 32 520 250
	Type:	Resort Spa

Description: Twelve intimate clusters of Thai-style two story homes, each with its own separate identity based on a garden theme, such as lotus flowers or palm trees are spread over 14 acres. The spa, managed by MSpa International, opened on November 16, 1999. The spa’s design, menu and treatments are supported by a service style that considers the guest’s need for escape, unobtrusive delivery and extraordinary attention to detail. In addition to the traditionally-inspired treatments, The Spa offers a range of beauty treatments using award-winning, U.K-based Elemis products. Elemis is a market leader in advanced aromatherapy skincare and professional spa therapy treatments for the face and body. The products use no animal derivatives or testing - just the finest quality medicinal plants, organic herbs, revitalising seaweed extracts and active natural bases.

Treatments & Programs: From ancient Ayurvedic massage therapy and dosha-balancing colour therapy steam baths to Body Butter skin nourishing and hydrating facials that use ancient Thai herbal recipes, the new Anantara Spa menu has something for every body. The Anantara Spa's treatment list reads like a gourmet menu. There are body treatments to exfoliate, soften and invigorate using salt, Javanese spices, exotic fruits, aromatic unctions and fragrant oils. The spa's signature treatment, unique to the Anantara Spa Hua Hin, is a 3 hour Warm Sesame Compress, which starts with a Thai herbal steam bath to prepare the skin, then a white sesame scrub to exfoliate, an aromatic yoghurt splash to cleanse and to complete the treatment a warm sesame compress massage. Massages range from Shirodhara and Ayurvedic to Shiatsu, traditional Thai, aromatic oil and Oriental Foot massage. Blissful body treatments include a 60-minute Asian Glow, a traditional skin polisher which uses a blend of finely ground Roselle and Prai powder in the scrub followed by Guta Kola powder (good for circulation) and yoghurt in the body wrap. The spa's Sun Soother is a refreshing 60-minute relief treatment for sunburned skin. After a soothing application of natural aloe vera gel, the skin is treated with a cooling compress of mint and black tea leaves. A menu of signature bath treatments can be booked separately or in conjunction with a massage or body treatment. The 30-minute Colour Therapy Steam Bath is based on Ayurvedic medicine's belief in the healing power of colour and its ability to balance the body's three doshas. Alternatively the 60-minute Mud Steam Baths range from Green Mud (ideal for detoxification and for use on acne-prone and oily skin); Red Mud (suitable for dry skin with its high content of iron and essential minerals); and White Clay (a gentle bath with deodorant properties for sensitive skin). Or guests can opt for the Cleopatra bath experience: a 30-minute honey milk bath. Longer spa 'journeys' include 3, 5 and 7-day spa packages, which can be tailored by the spa consultant to suit each guest. One-day spa rituals range from 2-hour spa treats of two complementary treatments to five and a half hour full-day spa retreats which include a spa cuisine lunch and the popular Spa Bliss, a 4-hour spa package for two which includes a white sesame scrub, honey milk bath, Swedish massage and rejuvenating facial.

Romantic Treatments & Programs: Four double suites, including one dedicated Thai massage room, allow couples to enjoy their massage or body treatments side by side.

Spa Facilities: Designed as a garden spa, set amidst the beachside resort's lagoon pools and bounteous tropical foliage, the Anantara Spa in Hua Hin was created by award-winning landscape architect Bill Bensley, who also designed the Four Seasons Chiang Mai's gardens and spa. Each of the Spa's six suites is set in its own individual garden courtyard, three with a deep terrazzo bath designed for two and all with dual alfresco 'rain' showers suspended in bronze cages modeled on traditional Thai fish-traps. Each suite's air-conditioned treatment room is separated from its courtyard by sliding glass doors that can be kept closed for coolness or opened up onto the courtyard. The Spa was designed in harmony with the resort's gardens and lotus-covered lagoons. Three of the spa suites are accessed via a wooden jetty, lit at night by flaming oil lamps, which runs around the edge of the lagoon. From here guests enter their spa suite via huge wooden doorways topped with decorative stone lintels, behind which is their private courtyard and treatment room.

Other Facilities: The 187-room Anantara Resort and Spa is a uniquely Thai village-style resort located on the sunrise coast of the Gulf of Thailand, around 170 miles south of Bangkok. Hidden amidst 14 acres of Bill Bensley-designed luxuriantly landscaped mature gardens and lagoon pools, the picturesque resort enjoys a beachfront location at the quiet end of Hua Hin's long sandy beach. The resort's 38 spacious lagoon rooms and 12 suites, each come with a deep terrazzo made-for-two bathtub set in a luxurious bathroom, which can be opened up onto the bedroom via sliding fluted-glass doors. Each room is individually decorated with Thai artifacts and has its own private terrace or balcony with an inbuilt sofa and enough space for alfresco candlelit dining. All Garden and Sea View rooms also include private balconies and terraces.

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