The signature treatment, Island Senses for Healthy Energy, includes a pine hydrotherapy bath and restoring massage with aromatic lavender oil. The spa’s setting is as romantic as the hotel it’s located in.

Clients are first analyzed by specialists in Ayurvedic massage for the best way to treat their dosha, or body composition, using 5,000-year-old holistic techniques. Then it’s on to balancing the dosha with dry brushing, a steam in the cedar cabinet, and essential oil massages.

A full-service hotel spa offering the Chai Soy anti-stress back treatment, which also includes a relaxing scalp and foot massage. The cinnamon enzyme facial, with its skin tightening effect, is a favorite.

A massage at Grotto Spa

Overlooking an expanse of beach, BC’s largest spa resort offers a wide range of treatments, including couple’s massages. West Coast seaweed is part of a sensuous scrub, wrap, facial, and massage package.

Escape into relaxation at this gloriously refurbished spa. Choose ancient Moor Mud to whisk away impurities, signature facial treatments, or a luscious milk bath, just as Cleopatra enjoyed. Organic grapefruit treatments for hands, feet, and body.

Awaken your senses with a signature facial that uses hot stones and Japanese facial techniques or experience full-body benefits with an Amazon berry wrap.

This spa takes its cue from the Orient, where tea and relaxation balance each other for harmonious effect. Green tea, an antioxidant, is used in some treatments; aromatherapy enhances others. Products are all naturally sourced.

Eucalyptus steam rooms at this sparkling, high-ceilinged spa offer total relaxation. The BC glacial clay wrap uses rockweed and ocean mud.

Skin care is the focus at this luxurious spa. Its personalized Facilicious treatment is the most requested. Skin-calming plant extracts are mixed by a staff chemist.

Avello Spa & Health Club

This elegant spa specializes in rock- and hydrotherapy. Water jets eliminate toxins; warm stones create trails of relaxing heat on the body.