La Tourelle Restaurant Paris
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Resort & Spa Overview:
It’s no surprise that Ithaca, NY has some great spas. After all, the city is home to The Finger Lakes School of Massage and Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration where courses in spa development and spa management are taught.
Ithaca is located at the Southern end of Cayuga Lake, the longest of the 11 Finger Lakes. This wellness-centered city is hip, artsy, funky and laid back all at the same time. It’s a college town where academia and non-academia peacefully co-exist in a way that many other college towns never enjoy. When the college students and their families aren’t flocking to Ithaca, the tourists are.
I visited La Tourelle Resort & August Moon Spa with three friends for a girlfriend getaway on a Sunday night in August.
Ithaca has its share of famous visitors too. The Dalai Lama’s Namgyal Monastery is located in located here. The Monastery is the North American Seat of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. The Dali Lama and his organizing committee spent 5 days at La Tourelle Resort & Spa in October of 2007 when he came to bless the site of a new teaching and retreat center. And Whoopi Goldberg has been known to visit Ithaca a time or two.
August Moon Spa opened in October of 2005 at the 70 acre, 54 room La Tourelle Resort, owned by Walter Wiggins, a partner at Wiggins, Mason & Crane, LLP in Ithaca.
The 4,500 square foot Asian themed spa is located on the ground floor of the hotel and features 7 treatment rooms. The menu consists of a variety of unique treatments with an emphasis on local elements such as waterfalls and vinotherapy.
Spa Reception:
The reception area features the spa desk, a small waiting/seating area and the August Moon Boutique, which sells retail spa products.
First time spa guests are asked to complete a spa intake form. Guests can select from nine treatment room music choices to customize the treatment experience. If the treatment involves aromatherapy, five options are offered at check-in.
Spa Bathrooms/Changing Area:
Men’s and women’s locker room with keyless lockers, showers, and standard vanity amenities. Cork flooring covers the restroom area of the women’s locker room. Oversized body towels, bath mats and body wraps for use in the sauna/steam room and facials are displayed in a large basket in the locker room area.
Spa Treatment Rooms:
The 7 treatment rooms include a tiled wet room for Vichy Shower treatments, known as Waterfall Treatments in a nod to Ithaca’s many beautiful waterfalls. There is a couples treatment room with oversized jacuzzi, skin care room and manicure/pedicure station.
Spa Amenities:
Stash teas and iced fruit-infused water.
Other Spa Facilities:
A dry sauna and steam room is located within the locker room facilities.
Fire and water themed tranquility rooms are directly across the hall from each other – one featuring a fireplace and the other with water trickling down a wall of rock. Guests relax in total comfort with comfy lounge chairs and loveseats, a great variety of magazines, cozy throw blankets and pillows. Soft music, ambient lighting and candles create a relaxing atmosphere in the water themed tranquility room. Natural light streams in through windows in the fire themed tranquility room that is surrounded by green plants.
