Skin Care - Rekindle The Romance With A Spa Getaway

With Valentine's Day around the corner, many couples' minds turn towards the 3Rs - Rest, Relaxation, and Romance. Nothing says romantic like a spa getaway. There's no destination quite like a spa where you can enjoy pampering, privacy, and rejuvenation. Reconnect at one of these fabulous properties:

New York City spells and romance and the Spa at The Mandarin Oriental delivers couples into a soothing world. Entering the lobby of the hotel, couples are dazzled by the glass Dale Chihuly sculpture which dominates the space. Located on the 35th floor of the Time Warner Center, couples are welcomed to the Asian-inspired spa with a pair of slippers. From there, separate male and female Heat Experience" rooms offer relaxation in the large stone Jacuzzis with a rain forest shower to cool off in. Spring for the couples suite and pamper your loved one with a fireplace, great city views, and a Chinese bed for relaxing after your sumptuous treatments.

At the southern tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, the One&Only Spa Palmilla in Los Cabos offers a serene sanctuary, which has drawn celebrities like John Travolta who held his 50th birthday bash here. Made up of six buildings and 13 spa villas, the spa resort is the ultimate in privacy and intimacy. Villas feature outdoor gardens/fountains and air-conditioned massage pavilions. For the ultimate pampering, reserve a deluxe One&Only sensory float bed for treatments and wraps. Hot- and cold-water pools, an outdoor Yoga Garden, and sauna and steam room are also included. Treatments at One&Only begin with a floral foot wash and end with a tea ceremony that includes fresh fruit.

Designed to accentuate the Low Country style, The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, South Carolina, features room but comfy cottage rooms with fireplaces and porches, as well as views of the water. The spa, designed as an antebellum mansion, is graced with verandahs in each treatment room and some outdoor baths. Set beside serene waterways flowing through gardens and moss-laden oak trees, the spa helps couples achieve a peaceful state of mind, body and heart. The Lover's Jubilee package is performed in a private room for two and features a lover's bath with champagne and chocolate on the veranda. A head-to-toe massage sends couples to new levels of relaxation.

Quaint thatched-roof huts make up the spa village at Mauna Lani Spa at Mana Lani Resort in Big Island, Hawaii. Here, couples experience soothing mineral essential lava-themed treatments featuring sun-warmed outdoor Lava Sauna and an unparalleled aquatic lava watsu pool treatment. Couples may also indulge in a massage under a thatched-roof hut, as well as outdoor showers, surrounded by lush tropical landscaping.

One of Arizona's most famous and intimate spas, the Royal Palms Resort & Spa in Phoenix embraces couples inside its winding paths, accentuated by a grove of orange trees and Mexican-style fountains. The Spanish Colonial-style resort was originally a 1929 mansion built as the winter home of a New York City financier in love with Spain. Spa Terrace Rooms offer canopied day beds that conceal a table so couples can receive treatments in their room. A deep soaking tub and steam shower await guests in the bathroom, while in the bedrooms, couples cozy up by the fireplace, or take in views of Camelback Mountain from the terrace. In addition to in-room treatments, the intimate eight-room Alvadora Spa is nothing but romantic. In the Aqua Dolce, the signature wet room suite, side-by-side Vichy Showers provide the inspiration for their Aqua Dolce Rituals.

Accessible only by boat or seaplane, Little Palm Island Resort & Spa in Little Torch Key, Florida, the resort offers only 28 private bungalows that look out to the sea. At the Spa Terre, couples take advantage of the specialized Indonesian treatments. The healing properties of flowers and spices are used liberally to enhance spa treatments such as the Javanese Royal Treatment, inspired from the palaces of Java. A Balinese massage is followed by an herbal exfoliation, cool yogurt splash and a fragrant shower. To complete the experience, guests sink into a traditional Japanese soaking tub prepared with rose petals and infused with fragrances.