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Journey Into Winter: Naantali Spa Hotel |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,862 Words, 11,456 Characters |
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In January, when my most dreaded season finally reared its head and unleashed its tenacious grip on the Northeast in a torrent of snow, ice, and wind, we were busy plotting our escape to Naantali Spa Hotel on the southwest coast of Finland. Maybe, I told myself, as I studied online the spa’s offering of exotic water treatments, the best way to overcome my histrionic distaste of the season was to face winter head on and journey to the land of perpetual winter where they surely know a thing or two about surviving seasonal cold and darkness.
The idea of retreating to Naantali in the winter is far from a novel idea. By the eighteenth century, this small town near Turku, the old Swedish capital of Finland, was already a recognized resort. Kings and other members of nobility as well as heads of state traveled to this town at the edge of the 40,000-island archipelago to bathe in and imbibe the mineral-rich water. The health spring opened in 1732, with the first spa in continual operation for over a hundred years. Naantali Spa Hotel, Scandinavia’s largest spa and a member of the Royal Spas of Europe, a conglomerate of resorts sharing...
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...ry budget and appetite. The casual Café Roma off the lobby offers soups, sandwiches and salads; 8 to 10 euros. Thai Garden features curries and noodle dishes; 5 to 18 euros. The gourmet restaurant aboard the Sunborn Yacht combines such traditional Finnish ingredients as berries, mushrooms, and game in innovative dishes like chateaubriand of elk with and artic cloudberry sorbet; 8 to 29 euros.
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