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• n  a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
• n  a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area
• n  a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness

• At an offbeat spa in northern Israel, tourists - and repeat customers - relax as snakes knead and strangely soothe.
• Two new stylish and serene spas give city dwellers in Paris and New York space to relax.
• More information about spas in Asia.

• watering place
• watering hole
• resort hotel
• health spa
• health club

News & Articles

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• Spa track historian dies at 75
  Spa track historian dies at 75 Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 9:55 pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Edward Hotaling, a Spa native who worked as a newspaper correspondent in Paris and broadcast journalist in the Middle East before returning to his hometown to research a book about the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• Ballston Spa rapist pleads guilty, faces decade in prison
  BALLSTON SPA — A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty to several felonies, including first-degree rape, Tuesday.
  June 12, 2013 - The Saratogian
• Ballston Spa school district transportation employee charged with drunk driving
  BALLSTON SPA — The operations supervisor of the Ballston Spa Central School District transportation department was charged with driving while intoxicated last month, but she still has her job and the authority to drive schoolchildren if the need arises.
  June 11, 2013 - Community News

Quotes

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• George Lopez in Bloomington Pantagraph
  Before Hilton was sent back to jail Friday, comedian George Lopez called her brief stay behind bars "more like a spa treatment than an actual sentence.''" "Celebrities get treated lightly by the judicial system,'' he said. Wealthy and...
• Vijay Mallya in ITV.com
  Spa and Monza are tracks that will suit the car better, and if we can get a podium, that would be the icing on the cake,he said. "But if not, at least we're demonstrating that we're scoring points. We're up to 43 now, and this team hasn't...
• Stephen Leatherman in Guardian Unlimited
  People shouldn't come here to play golf, and don't come here for the Hilton spa or something like that,Leatherman said. "They're not going to find those things here. What you will find here - it's like going back in time with very quaint,...