Top Las Vegas Spas

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Nestled within a garden atop the Venetian Hotel, this 69,000-square-foot facility offers complete fitness, wellness and beauty facilities for the mind, spirit and body. A typical treatment is the Rasul Ceremony, featuring medicinal muds and steamed herbs, with alternating rinsing treatments. The King's Bath offers a relaxing bath in exotic oils, with floating rose petals and candlelight, followed by a massage. The Canyon Ranch Cafe, offers tasty and healthy foods prepared in gourmet style.

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Located inside the Bellagio hotel, Spa Bellagio welcomes you to a rich and rejuvenating range of facial and body therapies. Try the Bellagio Stone Massage—aquamarine gemstones are used to massage your face and body—for a warm and refreshing touch. The spa also offers various other therapies, such as the Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy, Indian Head Massage and Thai Yoga Massage. Pick up products from the in-house sale to carry the relaxed feeling home. Spa Bellagio also houses a sauna room, a steam room, a salon and a fully equipped fitness center. Reservations are recommended.

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Located in the Four Seasons Hotel, this is a top-notch health spa with five-star service and facilities, as well as a five-star price tag. Full weight training and treatments are offered in six large rooms, or if a more intimate experience is your goal, reserve one of the two private spa rooms. These feature a whirlpool and any of the regular services are available for private enjoyment. Facials, salt rubs, wraps, mineral treatments, massages, aromatherapy, steam rooms and tanning are available. A visit is a vacation in itself.

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Luxury suites begin at 750 square feet.

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The rather silly nomenclature of this utterly fabulous Vegas accommodation reminds us of our previous consideration regarding the Four Seasons' relationship with Mandalay Bay (located on the top floors but operated as a separate entity) -- it's part of the hotel but not precisely the hotel. In this case, this really is THEhotel, in all senses, not the least of which is that even though we were quite fond of Mandalay Bay prior to the opening of this conjoined twin of a property, we now think of it as the frowzy sister from the sticks who looks tawdry and rumpled next to its sleek Vogue-magazine-editor sibling. (Actually, we still like Mandalay Bay a great deal.) Yes, if Prada were a hotel, it would look something like THEhotel. Certainly, if there are Prada wearers in town, we bet they are going to be staying here.

The new trend in Vegas hotels seems to be hotels that allow you, if you so choose, to forget you are in Vegas. Never mind that psychology. What that translates to here is an entirely separate entrance and an entirely different atmosphere. This is not a casino hotel -- though it is connected to one by a long hallway -- but a world of sleek towering walls of lighting, ambiguous modern art, and both guests and employees in head-to-toe black. Like any good Vegas hotel, it wows you from the start, but not in the usual Vegas marble-gilt-and-chandelier screaming over the top "look-how-you-can-live-if-only-you-hit-that-jackpot-over-there" way, but in a way that coolly says, "You probably already live like this, don't you?" while handing you a nicely chilled Cosmopolitan. In other words, this isn't Donald Trump's version of the best, but rather that of Mr. Big from Sex and the City. Don't get us wrong, everything here is still out-of-proportion large, but it's sophisticated and chic, all blacks, tans, woods, and mid-century modern sharp lines. We fell for it instantly, and that's before we went to our room.

Ah, the rooms: Every one is a genuine suite (not just separated living room and bedroom, but even a wet bar and second water closet), done in more black, tans, and gleaming woods, like your professionally decorated Manhattan dream apartment. There are plasma-screen TVs in every room, including the enormous marble bathroom, where the tub is so deep, the water comes up to your chin when you sit down. Bathroom amenities are posh, the comforters are down, and the sheets -- well, remember our complaints about how you just can't get good sheets in big hotels? Feel the soft heft of these. That's what we want. Two complaints might be the excess of mirrors (the wall-length double closet and TV cabinet are covered in them, as is another wall) and the overall lack of good lighting. But seriously, you won't care. For once, a hotel room in Vegas designed to make you want to stay put. Not that you have to; as stated, all the amenities of Mandalay Bay (their incredible pool area, a number of terrific restaurants) are just down a long hall, though the instant you step from this grown-up world into the world of, well, noisy grown-up pursuits, which isn't the same thing at all, you might well want to turn right back around.

Having raved about it all, we do have some complaints. The staff are hardly cuddly, and service reflects that. Costs at the sleek cafes are higher than even the usual elevated hotel restaurant prices. Then again, you can use just the workout facilities at the Bathhouse Spa, the rather unfortunately named but gorgeous health club and spa, for only $20 (cheap compared to other comparable hotels, though it's $30 if you also want to use the saunas and the like). This is the place we would splash out on (and certainly would leap on any specials offered), but with the understanding that it's still, despite appearances, a Vegas hotel, though very likely the best there is.

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After braving the wave pool in the hot Las Vegas sun, take a trip to paradise at the spa. Over 3,000 square feet of exercise facility and private treatment rooms overlook the 11 acres of beach area at Mandalay Bay. Salt and herbal body wraps, aromatherapy, massage, facials, saunas, steam room and a personal trainer will make your visit here refreshing and trouble-free. Try a reflexology session and your tired feet will thank you.

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Spread across 3500 sq ft with over forty-five treatment rooms, The Spa at Wynn Las Vegas is magnanimous. Complete with a spa area, salon, fitness centre, swimming pool, it has everything one could need for skin and body-care. 'Sake Body Treatment' and 'Red Flower Japan Body Ritual' are some of the unique treatments on the menu. The 'Good Luck Ritual' stands out as it uses the principle of Feng Shui. Just adjacent to the spa, the salon provides a full menu of services spanning the regular beauty treatments and hair care services. Head to the fitness centre to exercise or take a dip in the inviting pool for a more relaxed work-out.

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Vacations should include relaxation and pampering of the body and mind. This spa at Caesars Palace has everything. You will find yourself in heavenly comfort when you reserve time for a body massage. Yoga, aerobics, selectorized weights, video simulators and an unbelievable rock-climbing wall are all here for the patron.

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This spa, located within the Red Rock Casino Resort Spa includes a salon and a fitness center as well. Guests head here to relax in the sauna and whirlpool, work out, get their chins shaved, hair styled and hands and feet pampered. Body composition analysis, massages, rose petal baths, facials, and shiatsu are offered here as well. Also available here are food and drinks, assisted stretching, nutritional consultation, meditation class, personal training and hangover treatments. Obviously, the spa is meant for adults only, and anyone below the age of 16 will not be allowed. So, if you look much younger than you are, bring your identity card along!

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You are about to experience the ultimate in a spa experience. A wide variety of rejuvenating treatments await you, ranging from massage and stress relief to facials, pedicures and manicures. If you prefer to simply use the facilities, which include a work-out room and Jacuzzi spas, it includes robes, towels, lockers, and fruit juices. It is located at the MGM Grand Hotel Casino.