Pacific Spas: Luxury Getaways on the West Coast

By Gina Hyams

Spas are the getaway of choice for those seeking health, fitness, and more than a little pampering. Pacific Spas offers in-depth profiles of the 20 most luxurious resorts within easy reach of Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, southern California, and Baja California, Mexico. You-are-there photography offers the perfect backdrop for a vacation fantasy, while artful text describes each exceptional coastal inndetailing decor, accommodations, cuisine, and spa services. Ranging from sleek modern showplaces to rustic wooded retreats, each restful haven is a unique reflection of its coastal locationa Victorian mansion in the California wine country infuses grapes into its facial treatments, while a cedar-roofed resort in British Columbia seems to merge into the surrounding rainforest. Overflowing with useful travel information and delightfully swoon-worthy details, Pacific Spas is a necessity second only to a white terrycloth robe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811846172
• ISBN13: 9780811846172
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Great pictures and luxurious descriptions

This is a great book to take you away and get you dreaming about that next spa trip!

Polished designs unique to spas

PACIFIC SPAS: LUXURY GETAWAYS ON THE WEST COAST by Gina Hyams may be intended as a travel guide to some eyes; but it comes packed with color interior photos by Cesar Rubino and describes many of the appealing and finishing design touches unique to spas, making PACIFIC SPAS both a travel guide and a home decorator's guide to reproducing some of the luxuries spas offer in environment and setting.