Sure, a massage is nice, but these unique spa treatments blow your average spa day out of the water! Discover this year’s top exotic spa treatments in Mexico and the Caribbean.

Hermitage Bay, Antigua

Who would’ve thought your favorite color could bring you such harmony? At Hermitage Bay, Antigua, spa guests will undergo a color ritual, where treatments revolve around your favorite color and your body’s chakras. Each color represents the basis of your treatment. While Red Empowerment represents a hot stone massage, Blue Calming will relax you with herbal compress massages and more. Subtle accompaniments include music, aromatherapy, and an “initiation ceremony” consisting of a foot bath in essential oils, fruits, flowers, and traditional Himalayan salts. 

El Dorado Casitas Royale, Mexico

With Naay Spa’s Water Journey Ritual, you’ll indulge before or between treatments at your own pace with this classic experience. Here, you’ll start with a session in the sauna and steam room before moving onto a bubbling whirlpool tub. Afterward, guests are invited to a polar pool to cool down, but it doesn’t stop there. The sensations pool has powerful hydro jets and bubble beds with various pressure levels to relieve tension in your muscles and spine. It sounds like an “ahhhh” moment to us!

Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, Mexico

Part of what makes the Roc Spa experience so “ah-mazing” is its ability to embrace music in their signature sound therapy treatments. Here, spa-goers will unwind to tunes specifically chosen to compliment the movement in treatments like Synchronicity, which takes you through time with familiar hits. Wrap Remix, which incorporates beat-driven sweetgrass into a detoxifying wrap and facial. And Face the Music, a musical spin on the classic facial.

Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit, Mexico

At the “Leading Spa of the World,” you can expect nothing less than knowledgeable staff members, high-quality products, and some of the most unusual spa treatments you’ve ever seen. Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit’s most popular treatment is quite possibly the 80–minute seashell massage where organic wax and warm seashells are pressed gently against your body to achieve a sense of calm that is both physical and spiritual. No matter the treatment though, you’re guaranteed to receive a true Mexican ritual that is unmistakenly luxurious here.

Zoetry Paraiso, Mexico

Spiritual healing is practically the motto at Zoetry Paraiso. Here, visitors are invited to a metaphysical experience, where Aztec and Mayan cultures are blended in its signature Temezcal ceremony. It starts by entering a darkened dome-shaped structure and sitting in a circle of hot stones. You’ll then progress into an hour-long ritual that incorporates different aromas, sounds, and sensations to release stress and detoxify your body, encouraging the regeneration of cells. Participants are urged to emerge reborn afterward, with a newly-balanced sense of wisdom, awareness, and will. How authentic!

Make good use of those vacation days! Get in touch with me today for more ideas about where to visit to relax and recharge on your next getaway.