It's spas-aplenty throughout Miami, with new additions and expansions in both major incentive facilities and small boutiques, all scrambling to catch the spa cachet sweeping the hospitality and meetings industry.
• The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables is a 1920s landmark that had been returned to its original glory — but sans spa. Now, it's opened a multimillion-dollar, 12,000- square-foot spa facility on the 7th floor of the main hotel building. The spa offers all of the traditional European-style spa treatments, and has adjoining treatment rooms for couples massages. The spa staff also provides massages in the resort's poolside cabanas.
In addition, the Biltmore recently refurbished its 10,000-square-foot fitness center, adding new equipment that includes 31 cardio machines.
• The Clinton Hotel, a popular South Beach Art Deco hotel, recently added Pancino Salon & Spa, located in the hotel's rooftop patio area. The spa offers a full range of beauty and massage treatments, including hot stone massages, which guests also can receive in their rooms.
• Le Meridien Sunny Isles Beach recently opened Le Spa, a 6,000-squarefoot health and beauty treatment facility on two floors of the resort. In addition to treatments inside the spa, the staff offers treatments outdoors, including private beachfront and poolside cabana treatments.
The spa's signature beauty treatment is a caviar facial.
• Don Shula's Hotel & Golf Club in Miami Lakes recently opened a $2 million facility, the Spa at Shula's by AVEDA, with seven treatment rooms in 3,100 square feet of space.
• Finally, the Eden Roc Renaissance Resort & Spa, on Miami Beach, recently completed a $100,000 upgrade of its spa that included new equipment.