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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, September 24, 2007

New at Westin hotels: in-room spa service

Advertiser Staff

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A basket of niceties, differing at each hotel, is brought to guest rooms. This one includes an orchid, aromatherapy spray and chocolates.

GREGORY YAMAMOTO | The Honolulu Advertiser

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Three Westin hotels in Hawai'i are adding a new in-room spa service, taking advantage of a new trend of offering services that pamper guests in the hopes of attracting more of them.

The Westin In-Room Spa experience is being offered at all Westin resorts in the Islands: The Westin Maui Resort & Spa (758 rooms and suites); The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas (797 studio and one-bedroom villas); and Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort (793 rooms and suites).

The program includes taking the massage table and a basket of restful niceties to the hotel room instead of having the guest go to the spa.

A sample basket provided by Westin included white ambrosia tea, a cymbidium orchid displayed in a box, a citrus-y aromatherapy spray and dark chocolates. The array is different at each hotel.

A full-body Heavenly Massage is available for the in-room spa service. The 50-minute massage costs $160 per person and the 80-minute massage is available at $205 per person plus tax and tip.

Sumithra Balraj, director of public relations at the Westin Maui Resort & Spa, said that on Maui, the resort works with local lavender farmers to produce Hawai'i-made spa products.