News and Press

 

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.


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.


We were recently nominated as a Finalist (among only three books) for the James Beard award 2009 in the category “Book Awards / Healthy Focus” (the “Oscars” of cookbook publishing)!

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.


 

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.



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.


Contact us regarding Marketing, Public Relations or Advertising opportunities.