Where Should the Spa Guide Go?
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This year will mark the Spa Guide's 25 wedding anniversary. It is a great reason to spend some serious time searching for the ideal destination to celebrate a lifetime together. Since I am just starting this search, I thought I would share some of the upfront research activities I will be doing with the viewers of this site by keeping a diary that I will update each week. I invite you to provide suggestions for destinations on the Spa Site Forum in the Share Your Spa Experience folder on the Where Should the Spa Guide Go? thread.

What are we looking for? Page 1 contains a list of the attributes we think the ideal anniversary location would have.

Where to look?

I will search through with my own site, Spas. As of 1-23-00 of all the locations listed,  the following seem the most appealing to us.

Spa Resorts in New Mexico - Results on Page 3
Spa Resorts in Utah - Results on Page 3
Spa Resorts in Costa Rica - Results on Page 4
Spa Resorts in Ecuador - Results on Page 4
Spa Resorts in Indonesia outside of budget limitations
Spa Resorts in Thailand outside of budget limitations
Spa Resorts in Austria outside of budget limitations
Spa Resorts in Switzerland outside of budget limitations
Spa Resorts in Spain outside of budget limitations
Spa Resorts in Australia outside of budget limitations
Spa Resorts in New Zealand outside of budget limitations
Top 10 Spas and Top 5 Spa Resorts from Condé Nast's 1999 Readers' Choice Award
Top 5 UK & Overseas Spa Resorts / Health Farms: Conde Nast Traveller's 1999 Readers' Travel Awards.
Spa Resorts in Hawaii added to list 2-20
Spa Resorts in Alaska added to list 2-20

I plan to visit the following About.com sites for some ideas:

Honeymoons/Romantic Getaways -  Results on Page 4
Ecotourism
Active Travel
Budget Travel
Hotels/Resorts/Inns
Southwest US for Visitors - Results on Page 3
Mexico/Central America for Visitors
Southeast Asia for Visitors outside of budget limitations
Switzerland/Austria for Visitors outside of budget limitations
Spain/Portugal for Visitors outside of budget limitations
Australia/New Zealand for Visitors outside of budget limitations

I will also visit the A&E Top Ten sites to follow up on a show I saw last week on exotic locations:

Top Ten Romanitic Destinations - Results on Page 3
Top Ten Exotic Destinations - Results on Page 3

Finally, I will take a look at the 9 resources in print listed in my review of Spa Magazine's World Spa Directory 2000

We made a decision to go to Kaua'i, Hawaii on Feb 20. Stay with us while we plan and prepare for the trip.

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