Tabacon Grand Spa & Thermal Resort Wins Readers' Choice Award for Best International Spa
Deep within the lush rain forest of Costa Rica, Tabacón Grand Spa & Thermal Resort is the Winner of the Luxist Awards' Readers' Choice Award for Best International Spa.
Tabacón Resort is an oasis embedded in a primary rain forest, featuring twelve natural thermal spring pools and lagoons, waterfalls, exotic gardens and trails. Geologically, Tabacón Resort's hot springs are 97% rain-based and 3% magma-based. The resort is a three hour drive (150 km) north of the San José International Airport. The resort sits near the base of Arenal Volcano, and is surrounded by the wildly diverse flora and fauna of the tropical rain forest. Tabacón Grand Spa & Thermal Resort is committed to sustainable tourism with a core mission that includes the protection and improvement of the environment.
The 114-room hotel offers a thermal mineral spring pool and Jacuzzi filled with thermal mineral water, the perfect place to enjoy the natural surrounding s of the rain forest and volcano. There is also a formal restaurant, guest rooms and a meeting room for groups.
The Grand Spa takes advantage of its prime location in the rain forest, the thermal mineral waters and the active volcano to offer therapies and treatments that are highly energetic and holistic. The main feature of the Spa is 11 open-air bungalows, where every treatment is carried out by professionally trained therapists. The Spa specializes in invigorating hydrotherapy therapies and volcanic mud therapies, special massages and skin-care treatments. Its certified therapists specialize in massage, traditional healing techniques, with the natural resources provided by Tabacon's extraordinary surroundings, leaving you refreshed and with the feeling of natural beauty. Tabacon also offers group and private yoga sessions as well as the ancient contemplative therapy of Temazcal.
Adventurous guests at Tabacón can choose from a wide selection of excursions and experience the thrills of adventure and ecological activities in the Arenal area. The different tours in the region include amazing white water rafting; canyoning; rain forest sky trek and hiking to the Volcano and La Fortuna Waterfall.
The resort has the distinction of a five-star category hotel by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute while the hotel was awarded membership into The Leading Hotels of the World, one of the most important luxury hotel associations in the world. Rates for the rooms at the hotel typically range from $175 for a superior room to $508 for a suite. Rates are higher during the holiday season.
