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Spa expansion: The Thai village-style Anantara Resort & Spa in Hua Hin, which has just joined the Small Luxury Hotels group, has opened a new garden spa. Created by award-winning landscape architect Bill Bensley, who designed the gardens and spa at the Regent Chiang Mai, the Mandara Spa is set amid lotus-dotted lagoon pools and tropical foliage, and offers six suites, each with an individual garden courtyard featuring a deep terrazzo bath for two and dual alfresco 'rain showers', suspended in bronze birdcages.

Rooms are generally US$150 (HK$1,170) a night but two packages are available from January 15 to April 15: the four-day/three-night Spa Indulgence (from US$746) with one-hour treatments daily; or the six-day/five-night Sybaritic Spa (from US$1,855) with two hours of treatments every day, complimentary use of the watersports facilities, two yoga classes, and round-trip limousine transfers from Bangkok (two-and-a-half hours each way). You can choose from Thai herbal body scrubs and foot reflexology to deep tissue massage, and each package includes daily breakfast and a health-conscious dinner on the first night in the Ba'an Thalia Italian restaurant (the Sybaritic package includes a bottle of wine). Call [66 32] 520250 or visit www. anantara.com for more information.

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