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Loews' Voga Voyage Combines a Slice of Venice and a Slice of Heaven

Filed under: Journeys, Spas



For the rates Venetian gondoliers charge you might expect a massage and a 3-course meal during your cruise of the canals. With the introduction of the Voga Voyage at Loews Coronado Bay Resort Gondola Company, you can at least check the massage off the list.

Your vessel for the journey among the Coronado Cays will be a softly wrapped, sun-warmed massage table. In turn, that table will ride upon an authentic 33-foot gondola that launches from the resort's private marina and then embarks on an hour-long cruise of Mediterranean-like waterways. Forty minutes of that will be occupied by masseurs tending to your physical needs, which includes the laying on of sunscreen before the more serious application of massaging hands. The last ten minutes of the trip will be given to sight-seeing, if you're in any mood for that, while you and your chère company feast on the gondola's supply of champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries.

Booking the $499 Voga Voyage also gets you a free night at the resort and its amenities, spread out on a secluded, 15-acre peninsula. And having saved on airfare to the Italian province, you just might have enough left over for the 3-course meal. It's certainly not what Iago meant when he mentioned "creating the beast with two backs," but this ride has a far less drama and a much happier ending...


The Speckels Mansion, Estate of the Day

Filed under: Estates


This gorgeous home sits on Coronado Island, a uniquely beautiful and historic island located in San Diego Bay. The home was built by John D. Spreckels who was known as Mr. San Diego and who owned the Hotel del Coronado, the water company, the trolley system, and the San Diego Union and San Diego Tribune newspapers.  Spreckels lived in San Francisco until the 1906 earthquake scared him down to Coronado. He built two homes on the island, his "bay-side house" which is now the Glorietta Bay Inn, and the other was his "beach-house" at 1043 Ocean Boulevard which is our estate of the day.  The Spreckels estate is the main house and a guest house totaling 27 rooms including a northeast wing with two apartments and a six-car garage. The mansion is a mix of Italian Renaissance and Beaux-Arts architecture and is full of special details like a finished exercise room and ballet studio in the attic and a basement with two wine cellars. The mansion has six bedrooms, a living room with a carved marble fireplace and built-in bookcases, sun room and plenty of areas for taking in the ocean views. It is listed at $16.9 million. It's a gorgeous piece of property but the interior could use an update. Interior shots after the jump and even more pictures can be found here.

[via Luxury Real Estate]



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