More commonly heard as “spa” in the United States, its lesser known moniker is becoming more and more popular, most likely due to an internet audience being truly global. In much of the world, spa therapies is known as thalasso, a derivative of a greek word, thalassa, which means sea. The therapy is based on the notion that sea water, sea weed, mineral salts and trace elements carry curative as well as preventative properties.
Although this system was significanty developed in France, it is now an omnipresent part of many of our lives world-wide.
If you’re a visitor or resident in the busy and constantly frenetic city we all love, what better place to house some of the best thalasso / spa hotels in the world? If anything, this is an unarguable reason to be in or travel to the Big Apple.
So without much further ado, here’s the list of the top ten thalasso spa hotels in New York and its surrounding areas (in reverse alphabetical order for a change!):
Trump International Hotel & Tower, 1 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023
Soho House 25-39 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 10014
St. Regis Hotel, New York, 2 E. 55th Street, New York, NY 10022
Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, 50 Central Park S., New York, NY 10009
Peninsula New York, 700 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY 12561
Hotel Gansevoort, 18 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 10014
Four Seasons Hotel New York, 57 E. 57th Street, New York, NY 10022
Emerson Resort & Spa, 146 Mt. Pleasant Road, Mt. Tremper, NY 12457
Dream Hotel, 210 W. 55th Street, New York, NY 10019
