At 69,000 square feet, Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian is the largest spa in town, and with 62 treatment rooms, it offers some of the most extensive and extraordinary services available.
The lobby of the two-story Canyon Ranch SpaClub is bright and sunny and features a full-service salon, the Canyon Ranch Café, the spa check-in desk and access to the hotel’s pool.
The entire bottom floor of the spa is covered by the 21,000-square-foot fitness center, which includes extensive cardio equipment, weights, a Pilates studio, a 40-foot rock climbing wall and several classrooms offering everything from yoga and spinning to salsa dancing and meditation. Lecture rooms offer classes on topics such as nutrition, wellness and metabolism.
Canyon Ranch also has a wellness center that offers services you wouldn’t normally find at a spa including physical therapy, acupuncture and a nutritionist.
The spa offers separate men’s and women’s areas with steam, sauna, hot tubs and relaxation areas where guests wait for their treatments.
The treatment menu at Canyon Ranch is so extensive it might be hard to decide what to indulge in. There are a variety of scrubs, wraps, massages, baths, facials and more.
One of the spa’s signature treatments is the Canyon Ranch Mango Sugar Glo, a body scrub derived from natural sugars, jojoba esters and beta carotene. The treatment includes a light exfoliation, immersion in a hydrotherapy tub and an application of moisturizer.
For a truly relaxing experience, try the Cocoon treatment, which consists of a light exfoliation followed by an application of a selected product such as mud, seaweed or oil. After the product is applied, you relax in one of the spa’s soft-pack beds, which cradles you as you experience the weightless sensation of floating.
By far the most unusual treatment room at Canyon Ranch is the Middle East-inspired Rasul chamber — a beehive-shaped tiled chamber with heated seats where one or two people are coated in therapeutic muds and sent into the chamber for an extensive herbal steam treatment, under a faux starlit sky from which rains fall, signaling the end of the treatment.
If massage is more your style, go for the ashiatsu treatment — a deep compression massage in which the therapist holds on to overhead bars and uses his or her feet to massage and stimulate the body’s lymphatic system.
Canyon Ranch can be a little tricky to find, but it’s easiest to park or valet in the hotel garage. From the garage walkway, turn right into the Grand Canal Shoppes’ food court and take an immediate right past the food court. Take the elevator up to the fourth floor and enjoy!
Article by: Kristine McKenzie
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