Their spa packages are surprisingly affordable for the usual menu of body polishes, massage and even a few zingers like Tibetan sound therapy.

Treatments include massage, thermal wraps and body polish, facials, manicures, pedicures and body waxing, and range from $25 to $180.

She frowned, listening to Mavis chirp happily about a new body polish that gave the skin a gold glow.

At 3 o'clock, I meet Deborah in the spa for one of its "signature treatments," a body polish and mini-herbal wrap ($80 plus tip).

Massages were always on the schedule, but an aroma wrap or a facial or a body polish might be added.

Twice they went on for more than an hour and a half, one day after a body polish with an almond cream and another day after a scowl-eradicating facial.

The fee also covers all classes, daily massages, a body polish, aroma wrap and facial.

Then I went to the salon for a manicure, a body polish.

A three-day package, including mind/body evaluation, meals (not including alcoholic drinks) and five treatments, from a blue-corn body polish to a soothing stone massage, is $1,890 to $2,790 a person through May.

Also offered are European hydrotherapy, body wraps, body polishes and body scrubs.