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Solage Calistoga Defaults On Loan

Trouble in Napa Valley. The Napa Valley Register reports that the owners of the luxurious Solage Calistoga in Calistoga, California has defaulted on a $47.2 million loan on the property. The resort, which opened in 2007, has 89 rooms and suites and has an eco-friendly slant that includes bicycles, earth-friendly interiors, environmentally safe cleaning products, locally-sourced food, sustainable landscaping, recycling and water reclamation. The resort has a bistro, full-service spa that includes Kate Somerville facials and a 130-foot swimming pool surrounded by cabanas. The restaurant, Solbar, is headed by Brandon Sharp, an alumnus of the hot Gary Danko restaurant in San Francisco.

Solage Calistoga General Manager Richard Hill has said that the default occurred as part of a loan renegotiation process and the property will not proceed to a Trustee Sale. It remains open for business as usual. Rates at the luxury resort start around $325 per night.

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Free Mud Baths In May at Calistoga Resort

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spas

Need a little destressing this month? How about slipping into a free mud bath at the Dr. Wilkinson's Hot Springs Resort in Calistoga, California? Now through May 27 mud baths are free at the resort for anyone who stays in a king or double queen Calistoga Classic room. The resort also has three thermal pools: an extra large pool with 80 degree water, a large pool with 90 degree water, and an indoor pool, a gigantic "hot tub" with 102 degree water. Massages and facials are also available.

The late Dr. John Wilkinson established Dr. Wilkinson's Hot Springs Resort in 1952. A practicing chiropractor for most of his career, and proponent of alternative health care, he arrived in Calistoga in 1946. He became fascinated with the restorative properties of the mud made from combining the region's hot mineral water and volcanic ash. His children Mark and Carolynn are the co-owners and have run the resort for more than 20 years, preserving the mud baths created and perfected by their father, protecting his "secret formula." The mud bath formula consists of a combination of local volcanic ash, imported peat, and naturally boiling hot springs mineral water from the resort's private source. The resort's original neon sign, erected in 1952, still glows outside Dr. Wilkinson's Hot Springs Resort. Rates for a room start around $150.

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Calistoga Ranch: Green Harmony in Napa Valley

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Many establishments tout their low impact on the environment, but Calistoga Ranch in California takes green to a new level. Its harmony with the Upper Napa Valley's pristine wilderness makes it an obvious choice for a nomination for a Readers' Choice Award in Luxist's best green spa category.

Founded in 2004, Calistoga is nestled in a secluded canyon a mere 90-minute from San Francisco by car. Set on 157 acres, the resort boasts 47 guest lodges and 27 owner lodges, all of which are designed to share the feel of a vintner's estate. The lodges were all built to ensure that the area's streams, lakes and ancient oak trees wouldn't be disturbed; each lodge features floor-to-ceiling glass doors that create a seamless flow into the resort's copious outdoor deck space.

Gallery: More from the Calistoga Ranch

Calistoga's spa is adorned with warm wood and encircled by trellised walkways. Relax in soaking pools shaded by mossy oaks above and graced by a babbling brook below or head inside to receive organic treatments in a private room. Afterwards, recline on deck chairs and gaze out into the expansive forest before you.

Try the spa's "Calistoga Cure" treatment, an exfoliating salt body scrub followed by a mineral bath in your own private outdoor tub, a polarity session, and a massage. Or check out the "Soul Soother," which begins with a yoga session in your own lodge and continues with an aromatherapy massage at the spa and ends with a lunch at the onsite Lake House restaurant – all without ever leaving your personal Napa paradise.

Cast your vote for your favorite spa until March 31st. Winners will be announced on April 1.

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Amici Cellars Wine Week Package

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Wine

How about a vacation where your souvenir is 288 bottles of wine (or rather, the promise of those bottles of wine). That's the offer from Amici Cellars. John and Sharon Harris of Amici Cellars rent out two villas, one in St. Emilion in Bordeaux and one in Napa Valley. Both are available for rent for $25,000 to $36,000 a month rent, depending on the season. They also offer a special package during harvest season (usually September and October). Their seven-day package in Napa includes seven nights at the Domaine Beau Soleil villa (check out the view from the pool above), hands-on wine making instruction, harvesting, private winery tours, food and wine pairing lessons and even spa treatments. At the end of your week, you leave and your Amici Cellars, Single-Designated Hillside Jericho Canyon Cabernet stays for 18-24 months where it rests in French oak barrels. Once your wine is ready it will be specially labeled and bottled with your name on it. The package sells for $32,000.

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Purple in Napa, Estate of the Day

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I've seen a purple kitchen before but the de Rham residence in Calistoga, California takes purple to a whole new level. This contemporary home was built in 2002 for Sharon and Chris de Rham and sits on 19 acres with views across the vineyards and hillsides. The home has over 6,000 square feeot of indoor living space and another 2,800 square feet of covered/open patio. Inside the home has French antique doors, high ceilings, huge beams, a marble fireplace and plenty of purple in just about every shade. Purple kitchen, purple tile in the outdoor kitchen, purple walls, purple cabinets. Logically, it should be sort of overwhelming but the designers knew what they were doing and the overall effect is rather calming and elegant. It is listed at $7.6 million. After the jump, someone call Prince, his new palace in Napa awaits.

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