Andalucia retreats
by Catherine Cunningham
According to the Times English Dictionary, the word retreat is to "withdraw or retire, as to seclusion or shelter".
In this busy hectic world, as the desire augments to stop your own personal race track and just "be" for a while is becoming increasingly more common. It seems that everyone is stressed. Go to the doctors about anything and the avoidance of stress is nearly always mentioned.
Stress has arrived worldwide and the idea of a retreat could just be the counter balancing answer. Faith Popcorn tend forecaster and the best selling author of "The Popcorn Report" predicted that we would all be wanting to Cocoon years ago. Now its so true and a retreat is the perfect location to undergo your very own cocooning experience.
Now just to add a little pleasant dilemma to this issue, there are various types of retreats, so you need to decide which one is the best for you.
Book Hotels Hotels with Spa facilities in Andalucia
Located in Mijas, 10 km from La Cala Golf, La Zambra Resort GL, part of The Unbound Collection by Hyatt provides accommodation with an outdoor swimming pool, free private parking, a fitness centre and a garden. This 5-star hotel offers room service and a concierge service.
Located in Sotogrande, SO Sotogrande Spa & Golf Resort Hotel is a 5 star resort featuring a golf course with three 18-hole combinations, and several restaurants. There is also a 2800 m² spa including a hot tub, gym, sauna and fitness and wellness centre.
Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Las Dunas Hotel Health & Spa is beachfront and offers an outdoor swimming pool, gardens, a terrace and a spa. Free WiFi is available. The air-conditioned suites features a private balcony, a flat-screen satellite TV.
Exe Estepona Thalasso & Spa - Adults Only is located between Puerto Banús and Estepona, and close to the best golf courses of the area. It offers a spa centre, an outdoor pool and free WiFi.
Featuring 3 18-hole golf courses, this luxury hotel is 10 minutes’ drive from Puerto Banus. Designed like a Tuscan palace, it features a 2, 000 m² spa, Roman Amphitheater and a luxurious beach club. Anantara Villa Padierna Palace Benahavís Marbella Resort offers rooms and villas surrounded by beautiful gardens. All have views of the golf course, pool or gardens, and in some cases the Mediterranean Sea.
Surrounded by 20.000sq meters of gardens, this luxury resort opens onto Marbella’s Elviria Beach, where it has a private beach club with VIP amenities. The resort offers several swimming pools, a wellness center and tennis facilities.
Senator Banus Spa Hotel offers luxury and is only 500 metres from the beach on the Costa del Sol. This adults-recommended hotel has an extensive spa and each room features a terrace with garden views.
This stylish hotel is 500 metres from the beach in a quiet area of Marbella. It features an outdoor pool, beach club, rooms with balconies or terrace and free Wi-Fi. Puerto Banús is 15 km away.
This luxury hotel and spa, with its own championship golf course, is a 5-minute drive from Bahía de Casares Beach. It features 2 outdoor pools and a private, seasonal beach club with infinity pool, restaurant and bar. The Cortesin spa includes an indoor pool and gym. There is a Turkish bath, sauna, and a unique snow cave. Treatments include massage.
Set in an Andalusian palace, this luxury hotel offers a free spa, a large outdoor pool and direct access to La Barrosa Beach. Each elegant room includes a furnished terrace. Gran Meliá Sancti Petri offers spacious rooms with a seating area and flat-screen satellite TV. Decorated in light colours, they all include free WiFi and a minibar.
Health Retreats
These can include anything from a week at a salubrious sap with an abundance of pampering normally with massage and alternative health programmes to fasting retreats where you will undertake a detox program to eliminate toxins from the body and often include colonic cleansing
Nature & Activity Retreats
Here not only can you enhance or expand a current skill. These courses are a honey pot of interesting folk and new like minded friends, which really adds to the holiday.
Spiritual Retreats
This can range from Buddhism to Christianity. The objective is to create a closer harmony between oneself and "God". Some of these retreats are carried out in pure silence, so any talkaholics be warned.
Yoga retreats
There are so many versions of Yoga and meditation retreats all taking you on that essential inner journey to peace.
Personal Development Retreats
Business retreats, think-tanks and self awareness courses. There are courses tailor-made to suit the needs of anyone from burnt out CEO´s to the merely inquisitive.
Travel Destination Retreats
Andalucia with its rich cultural history is an ideal destination for Visiting, mountain hideaways and scared lands.
The End Results!
Its always great to see someone after a retreat they are invariably bounding with energy and have a huge desire to "hug the world". They have normally have an undergone an amazing journey and will return to their normal life more evolved and enthusiastic, for some it can be a crossroads, a time to change direction, for others just an amazing uplifting experience.
