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Terranea's Luxury Boot Camp

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spas

The Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California isn't just a place to go visit for a getaway, it now also offers boot camp classes. The Terranea's Boot Camp Resort Package offers an hour-long, "military-style" workout that makes use of the resort's 102 coastal acres, followed by access to Terranea's luxurious oceanfront spa facilities for a relaxing post-workout cool down.

The workout begins at the fitness center at 6 a.m. where participants warm-up with traditional calisthenics by the pool deck. After that either a short jog to get to the next location or, on a particularly hard day, lunges up a steep coastal hill. The class eventually makes its way down to the beach cove to begin speed and agility drills in the sand. Along the way, the class stops at various points for a variety of exercises including tricep dips, push-ups and sprints. The class concludes back at the fitness center where participants are guided through mat work targeting abs and arms, followed by stretching.

After the workout, participants can grab a meal at the spa café or enjoy the steam, sauna, swimming pool, outdoor hot tub and cold plunge. For an additional fee, guests can order services including massage, body treatments and facials.

Terranea's Boot Camp is offered throughout the year in six-week intervals with the next session beginning July 26, 2010. The program is open to both resort guests and non-guests who can either drop by for a single workout or participate regularly throughout the session. Participants can purchase either the Basic Boot Camp which is workout only for $20 per session, $325- three days a week for six weeks and $395- five days a week for six weeks. The Resort Style Boot Camp with spa access cost $40 for a daily drop-in with $650 for three days a week for six weeks or $795- for five days a week for six weeks.

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Terranea Resort Gets City-Sponsored Bailout

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Given the hard times facing the travel industry I'm surprised that more resorts haven't asked for a little help. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California recently got what amounts to an $8 million loan from the city by allowing Lowe Enterprises to defer payment of its hotel tax for several years.

We first heard about this resort way back in 2005. The lavish compound located on the spot of the old Marineland of the Pacific oceanarium will open later this month with three restaurants, a nine-hole golf course, a 360-room hotel and 20 bungalows. The complex also includes some pretty expensive real estate, 82 casitas and villas that range in price from $2 million to $4 million.

Terranea will be allowed to keep the 10 percent hotel tax customers pay in a deal that will allow the resort to receive $8 million or collect the taxes for 27 months, whichever comes first. The loan will be repaid by 2013 at the London interbank offered rate plus 8 percentage points. The city council made its decision Wednesday morning at a special meeting. Robert Lowe, chairman and chief executive of Lowe Enterprises, says that once the resort is up and running at full strength in a couple of years it should provide the city with $7 million to $8 million in taxes every year.

This isn't the first time we've seen a city step in to help a hotel in trouble, Portland, Oregon's Portland Development Commission agreed to accept delayed payments on taxpayer-funded loans to keep the developer of the Nines Hotel from defaulting on loans. The developer is still planning to repay its $16.9 million in city loans at the original interest rates once The Nines' business improves. The current expectation is that loan payments should start up again in 2011 if the economy improves along the current predicted trajectory.

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