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ISPA Offers Spa Savings Tips

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To help clients who are finding fewer funds available for spa visits, the International SPA Association is offering tips for spa deals.

With everything from gas to grocery prices on the rise, you are no doubt looking for ways to get the most bang for your buck. So, how about stretching your dollar with a half day of de-stressing and relaxing in a spa for the cost of a 60-minute massage? With more than 3,000 members in 75 countries, the International SPA Association wants to help you find a spa experience to match your budget.

“Just as you can find a hotel, restaurant or pair of shoes in any price range, there is a spa experience out there for everyone,” said ISPA President Lynne McNees. “ISPA’s research shows that the average cost of a spa treatment is $79, which means you can relax, reflect, revitalize and rejoice at a spa for the cost of going out to dinner, playing golf or seeing a play or concert.”

One in four Americans has been to a spa and stress is bringing them through the doors. “The main reason that people go to spas is to reduce and relieve stress,” said ISPA Chairman Jim Root. “With concerns over the economy, combined with our 24/7 society of BlackBerries, cell phones and traffic, people are realizing they must take time out to recharge their batteries and are turning to the spa lifestyle as a necessary part of a healthy routine.”

When ISPA and research firm The Hartman Group asked spa-goers what they would spend $200 of additional discretionary income on, a spa visit came in first for nearly 60% of American and Canadian spa visitors. The study also showed that dining and shopping finished second and third respectively, while concerts, movies, golf and spectator sports finished much lower.

Are you ready to relax? These six insider tips will keep you from stressing over costs at the spa:

• Off Is On - Book an appointment in the morning, mid-week and during the off-season. By beating the crowd you’ll score a spa deal.

• Packaged Deal - Many spa directors report that packages are often discounted up to as much as 20% off the regular individual prices. With 70% of spas offering packages, these deals are easy to find.

• Group Mentality - Bring your friends, family or co-workers and save. For example, you and your significant other will have no trouble finding a deal on a couples package, as 46% of spas offer them.

• Make a Day of It - Turn a 60-minute spa experience into a full day! Spas offer a wide range of complimentary amenities for you to enjoy, such as relaxation rooms, steam rooms, fitness centers, pools and healthy snacks and beverages.

• Score Online - Besides checking your favorite spa’s Web site for any new promotional postings regularly, you should also sign up to be on the spa’s e-mail list.

• Taking It Home - Take the spa experience home by learning techniques from your treatment that you can practice in your daily life. Ask your therapist for pointers on stretches, breathing techniques and home remedies, as well as product recommendations.

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The Lounge Spa / Culver City CA Day Spas / Cheap Spa Packages

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It’s always nice to head to the spa to de-stress, but sometimes the prices can be anything but relaxing. A number of local spas offer massages and treatments that feel expensive but are really affordable.

Around for centuries, the Art of Threading® is the primary method of shaping eyebrows at Ziba Beauty. Threading is practiced in parts of the Middle East, Pakistan, and India. One advantage to threading is that it doesn’t irritate the skin.

“Instead of tweezing and waxing, we use common cotton thread, and we twist and run it along the skin,” said Sumita Batra, Ziba Beauty. “The twisted area grabs the hair and pulls it out of the follicle.”

It also shouldn’t strain your wallet at $9 for both brows.

Ziba also practices the Indian Art of Mehndi®, the painting of ornate henna tattoos that can last up to ten days.

“Basically it is a form of celebration,” said Batra. “When we get married, when we have children, it’s considered to bring you good luck and good fortune.”

But it doesn’t cost a fortune. Some work going up the arm would run about $25.

The Lounge Spa in Culver City is cool and swanky without the swanky price.

“Part of the what makes the Lounge Spa really stand out is that they offer both these beautiful amenities, niceties like a locker room and a lounge, and a little bar area where you receive an elixir tonic when you walk in, and you don’t get that at most places with these kinds of prices,” said Erin Mahoney Harris.

An average massage costs $50 for 50 minutes.

“I wanted to create an atmosphere as well as a price that clients will not feel stressed, not only coming in here, but they can come in more regularly,” said Alice Koskas, The Lounge Spa.

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Like many Americans, it’s tough for Stephanie Nickele to find time in her hectic schedule to enjoy a manicure and pedicure.

 

“It’s the only opportunity I have during the day to get this done. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to do this at all,” she said.

 

Enter 10-Minute Manicure.

 

“It’s very much like the men’s business tie and shiny shoes. It is something that is necessary in today’s professional world,” said Karen Janson, vice president of 10-Minute Manicure.

For $10, customers get a manicure in 10 minutes.

 

It’s a needed service, say the business’s creators, because well-groomed nails can be the final touch on a woman’s image.

“We can’t show up at business meetings or social events without our appearance being 100 percent, and nails are very integral to that,” said Vivian Jimenez, co-founder of the business.

10-Minute Manicure was born from a simple idea. Three friends, all busy professional women, desperately wanted something that would make their lives easier.

 

“Women need a little bit of an oasis and we provide that as a service during their busy working day,” Janson said.

 

Last January, the women opened their first 10-Minute Manicure in Cincinnati’s airport. There are now 11 airport locations with one at Miami International opening soon.

 

Each salon, like the one in downtown Miami, has the same design and pricing.

 

“They can rely on the consistency of the services. That’s really important,” Jimenez said. “They know it’s clean. They know we sterilize. All of our technicians are licensed and have all been through our training.”

The owners specifically targeted airports to grow their business. The stores are located after the security gates where travelers spend about 90 minutes on average waiting for flights.

It’s fast because technicians use special products and eliminate the soaking process.

 

“Anytime I’m in one of our locations, a woman will come up to me and thank me, and say, ‘This is the greatest idea. I wish I had done it,’” said Lorraine O’Neil, CEO of 10-Minute Manicure.

“I think of us as the Starbucks of nails,” Janson said. “They have taken the cup of coffee to the next level, and we’ve taken nails to the next level.”

 

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Black Friday Free Gift Certificate Sale at Pittsburgh’s Best Day Spa ESSpa Kozmetika Organic Day Spa, 17 Brilliant Avenue Aspinwall, PA 15215, announces its “Black Friday” Gift Certificate Sale scheduled for 4am Friday November 23rd, the Day After Thanksgiving 2007.

Early morning Black Friday sales events are not typically associated with a high-end, luxury day spa. After dozens of red-eyed, fur-coated spa guests lined up in the cold pre-dawn darkness last November 2006, ESSpa owner and former Hungarian model Eva Sztupka-Kerschbaumer decided to make “ESSpa Friday” an annual event.

This year Eva will also offer complimentary champagne, roasted marshmallows, s’mores, gourmet coffee, croissants, mimosas and plans for a live band to keep spirits bright. Such an unusual event is sure to draw hordes of intelligent shoppers from their turkey-induced slumber as they make their way to ESSpa’s beautiful spa located just 8 miles north of Pittsburgh in Aspinwall, PA.Voted by numerous publications as Pittsburgh’s “Best Spa” in 2005, 2006, & 2007 and selected by the USGA as The Spa Services Provider for the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont CC, ESSpa Kozmetika Skincare is highly-regarded amongst Pittsburgh’s well-to-do. But Mrs. Sztupka-Kerschbaumer wants to make her ultra-effective skincare treatments available to all those potential customers who may never think of visiting a spa.

ESSpa will open at 4 AM on Friday, November 23rd, (The Day After Thanksgiving) and offer Complimentary “Buy One Get One Free” Gift Certificates to the first 100 customers through the door.

“Growing up in Hungary, a visit to the spa was part of our regular grooming routine as we rarely went to see a doctor.” explains Eva, who looks like a young Bridget Bardot, “Here in America, people regard spa treatments as an expensive luxury when in fact they provide significant health benefits.

It is my goal to offer traditional Hungarian skincare to as many people as possible, from infants to great-granparents. Our Black Friday Gift Certificate Special will help accomplish this task while allowing me to give something special back to those guests who have supported us. And what a great way to start your Holiday shopping.”

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