Vitamin C Showers (And Other New-Age Amenities) Trending In Hotels
by Keith Flamer
Vending machines and mini bars aside, can a hotel make you healthier? Some developers and hoteliers have made up their minds—yes. The new groove in hotels is to create in-room sanctuaries, sparing guests from the long, flip-flopped trudge to the spa and fitness room (if there is one).
Wellness amenities at luxury hotels are highly demanded but they usually come at a premium price (like trading Tayor Swift concert tickets just to secure a qi gong treatment reservation). Now the wellness trend is trickling to the rest of America’s travelers who deserve their fair share of serenity too (especially since many affordable hotels don’t offer steam rooms or deep tissue massages).
Wellness firm Delos continues to upgrade the average hotel and travel experience with Stay Well®, a less expensive wellness program featuring in-room sensations that revitalize the body, revive the mind and energize the spirit. Major branded hotels like MGM Resorts and Marriott International have bought in—offering their guests a more balanced and integrated life while on the road. A proposed 800-room Bjarke Ingels-designed hotel adjacent to the renovated Miami Beach Convention Center will reportedly opt in with Stay Well too (provided the project gains final approval in a March vote).
The MGM Grand Las Vegas was first to embrace the Stay Well program which utilizes wellness technologies developed by Delos, the Cleveland Clinic and new age guru Deepak Chopra.