 The World’s Spa-Goers’ Have Spoken: And They’ve Named Rancho
La Puerta as Their Favorite Spa in North America
Rancho La Puerta Takes Home Prestigious SpaFinder Readers’
Choice “Crystal” Award--Reserved for Spa-Goers’ Overall Favorite
Spa on Each Continent…
Rancho La Puerta has been honored with
a 2008 SpaFinder Readers’ Choice “Crystal” Award for being named
spa-goers’ favorite spa in North America. Based on nearly 250,000
votes submitted by readers of SpaFinder publications (including
Spafinder.com), the awards represent the most complete consumer
assessment of the global spa market.
The Crystal Award represents
SpaFinder’s most prestigious Readers’ Choice Awards distinction
and is reserved for only one top vote-getting spa in each of
the six habitable continents across the globe. Throughout the
year, SpaFinder readers and web visitors around the world were
asked to vote on their favorite spas overall – by continent and
region/country – and to select their picks for the best spas
in 25 specific categories (from “best accommodations” to “best
for men”). This marks the sixth year that the Readers’ Choice
survey has been conducted.
“After six years of enthusiastic reader
response and spa participation, our Readers’ Choice Awards have
become the industry’s premier awards program – the spa world’s
answer to the Academy Awards,” said SpaFinder, Inc. President
Susie Ellis. “And now with nearly 13,000 hotel, resort and destination
spas operating worldwide, for Rancho La Puerta to be singled
out as the top spa on the North American continent, represents
an extraordinary achievement.”
Overall, ballots were cast for
more than 1,500 different spa properties worldwide. Voters were
asked to only cast ballots for stay spas they’ve personally visited
within the past three years. A complete list of Readers’ Choice
Award winners will be featured in SpaFinder’s 2009 Global SpaFinder,
the definitive worldwide spa directory, and can be viewed here. |
NEW COUPLES WEEKS ADDED
Always popular, our “Couples Weeks” have expanded to include the following dates in the rest of 2009:
Weeks starting…
August 15
October 10
October 17
Share the Ranch with your significant other! During this week, a fair number of selected classes, activities, lectures and programs are custom-tailored to couples. You'll learn new habits and methods of living a healthier life together.
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Our new cookbook—a great gift to your health…and
the perfect holiday gift for friends
Meet the authors! Click
here to view a quick video of Deborah
and Deborah shot in Rancho La Puerta’s new cooking school and
our long-famous organic farm.
Chosen one of the best holiday gift books of 2008 by The
Today Show,
NBC.
Great cooking, using fresh, local, seasonal ingredients – is
at the heart of the experience offered by Rancho La Puerta. Cooking
with the Seasons, a beautiful, hardbound cookbook published
by Stewart, Taboori & Chang, with 120 luscious seasonal recipes,
transports that regenerative experience to your own home kitchen.
It will change the way you think about food and cooking—and,
quite possibly, help you live the longer, healthier life.
To order a copy direct from Rancho La Puerta, SIGNED
BY DEBORAH SZEKELY and her co-author, please call our Reservations Department
at 800-443-7565. Orders of five or more books can be signed AND
personalized with your message—great gifts to send in the
upcoming holiday season. $35 plus shipping and tax, if applicable.
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Great
cooking, using fresh, local, seasonal ingredients – is at the
heart of the experience offered by Rancho La Puerta. Cooking
with the Seasons, a beautiful, hardbound cookbook published by
Stewart, Taboori & Chang, with 120 luscious seasonal recipes,
transports that regenerative experience to your own home kitchen.
It will change the way you think about food and cooking—and,
quite possibly, help you live the longer, healthier life.
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Tee it Up!
Golf packages now available
Often called the “Golf
Capital of America,” San Diego County is a treasure house
of superb championship courses. One of the best, Steele
Canyon,
happens to be close to Rancho La Puerta. Our golf-loving guests
can now schedule an all-day GOLF PACKAGE for $175.00. Ask one
of our Reservation Specialists about the details of our golf
day. The golf option is available Thursdays, weather (and guest
interest) permitting.
Steele Canyon has been awarded Golf Digest magazine’s Four Star
Rating, one of only three golf clubs so honored in San Diego County.
The 27-hole championship course was personally designed by Gary
Player with respect and appreciation for the natural beauty of
the terrain—which is similar to that of the mountains surrounding
Rancho La Puerta. Each of the three nines offers a distinct environment
and type of play for all levels of golfers with the rugged Canyon
Course's dramatic shot making challenges and breathtaking elevations,
the Ranch Course winding through the fields of a working ranch,
and the Meadow course stretching along the valley floor with beautiful
woodlands and streams.
Your 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. golf day includes
an 18-hole round at Steele Canyon, cart rental, clubs rental
(if necessary), box lunch, and transportation to and from the
Ranch. (If you bring your own clubs the fee is reduced to $120,
but why trouble with extra airline baggage? Steele Canyon’s rental
sets are top-flight). Group or individual lessons can be arranged
with the pros at Steele Canyon for an additional fee. Other food
and beverages at the Clubhouse are not included.
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 New
pool is ready for those warm summer days
Our new state-of-the-art Junior-Olympic sized pool, located behind
the Azteca gym, was designed specifically for class exercise as
well as lap swimming. Challenging and fun, our water activities—always
an enormously popular offering at the Ranch—include a masters swim
program, water aerobics (deep water and touch-bottom), games, and
other fitness activities.
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