European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse A customer gets Ini underwater Massage at a spa in Frankfurt Germany j taking the cure continued from Page 13 woman named Bonnie. Some other Guys might think this a Tad wimpy. I Don t care Call me or. Wuss if you will but this was one excellent experience. As i Lay on a table Bonnie massaged my face shoulders neck exfoliated the dead skin coated my face with a botanical mask. I was at her mercy enjoying every second of it. Fifty minutes later i looked in the Mirror expecting to see the usual scowling Sallow faced reflection. I was taken Aback by having a glowing relaxed Mug stare Back. Boy women really know a Good thing. The body Massage was everything i had expected so minutes of pure Joy in which the skilled masseuse kneaded the knotted tight Muscles until i Felt like a piece of overcooked Rigatoni. But my favorite perhaps because i was the most cynical about it was the mud treatment. Mary the mud Meister used a Small Paintbrush to cover me with liquefied mud from France. She painted me neck to toe As delicately As she might touch up a cherished piece of furniture. 4. She left me alone under the sheets my skin coated by this moist Brown Topping. I Laid there quietly listening to piped in classical music imagining those old toxins just pouring out of me. There goes the pollution you breathe in every Day. There goes that Candy bar you scarfed Down. There go those doritos. Twenty minutes later Mary returned ushered me into something called a Swiss Shower. Five minutes later the last of the mud had streamed off my body i was aware of a pleasant tingling sensation. At the end of the five Days i had lost 5 pounds really did feel renewed. When i came Back to new York i acted like a crazed convert i joined a gym began meditating added Georgette Klinger to my Rolodex under of for facials. A few weeks after my return i was still incorporating the lessons of Canyon ranch into my daily life with great Success. To my be Tow males i must say you Don t know what you re missing. The program i chose the three night spa bathers get a Mineral water treatment in the hot Springs in a stalagmite stalactite Cave of Skene temptice a spa near Lyhne Slovakia. I in plentiful Les costly a woman gets a mud pack on her Back in bad Homburg Germany \. Up / getaway package includes three meals daily two personal sports services with a service charge of in percent sales tax the total was $1,177, you can also choose four $1,579five $1,838six $2,226 or seven night $2,640 packages As Welb you can of course take As Many extra services As you like with any package but they Are pricey. The men s health package consists of several services among them an in depth consultation with a physician lab tests body composition test Complete physical biofeedback nutritional counselling. There is the Choice of either two 50-minute massages or two facials or one of each. Cost $600 to the four night package $470 to the five night package $340 to the six night package no additional fee for the seven night package. By Chuck Roberts a staff writer a a. I in Europe Baden Baden Germany literal Bathe Bathe boasts some of the most Beautiful oldest spas in Europe. Magnificent Thermal Baths were built for roman soldiers in bout . 75 when the City was known As Aurelia Aque Sis. I now it s a popular stopping Point for Yguina american backpackers taking the advice of their guidebooks spending a few Days in the City said a spokeswoman at the tourist information office. Its Caracalla therme bathing Center is a sprawling 1,000 Square meters of indoor outdoor pools with hot cold water Grottoes a canal with flowing water pools of bubbling water hot whirlpools neck showers underwater jets. Described by some As the most Beautiful in Europe the Caracalla also offers a solarium Sauna Section mud packs massages. The Friedrich bad is a renovated roman Irish Bath built Between 1869 1877 in Renaissance style. Underneath its vaulted ceiling you la find a hot air steam Bath a Thermal Pool bubbling Baths an exercise Bath a plunge Bath. Also available Are Carbon dioxide oxygen Baths air Bubb a Baths underwater massages Standard massages physiotherapy hydrotherapy treatment involving drinking spa water. A visit to the Caracalla costs 18 Marks about $11 for two hours 24 Marks $15 for three hours 32 Marks $19 for four hours. The roman Irish , which includes a soap Massage hot air Bath costs 38 Marks $23 or 28 Marks f$17 minus the soap Massage. Approximate costs for other treatments include 22 Marks about $13 for hydrotherapy 30 Marks $18 for Massage 40 Marks $24 for a Mua pack 44 Marks $27 for exercise therapy in Thermal Bath 17 Marks $10 for partial electrotherapy. For More information about getting a Quot cure Quot in Baden Baden Call the Haus Des Kurgas Tes spa visitor s Center at 07221-275200 fax 07221-275202 address is Augusta Platz 8, but Germany does t have a monopoly on spas. In the Lovely Small czeck town of Karloy wiry for example you can get the full Range of treatment for the following prices natural Geyser Mineral Bath a 11 Marks about. $6.60. Imperial Bath with natural Mineral or oxygenated. Water a 50 Marks. Mud pack a 20 Marks. Mud Bath a. 20 Marks. Hydrotherapy a 15 Marks. Whirl Bath a 10 Marks. Classical body Massage a 16 Ark. Group gymnastics in a Sauna a 7 Marks. For More information Call Kur info at 017-24097 fax 017-24667. A guest enjoys a water Massage under a running faucet at a Pool in Baden Baden Germany. No. Tim i 14 stripes Magazine. December 2, 1993 december 2, 1992 stripes Magazine 15
