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  • One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the 'World's best destination spa!'
  • One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the 'World's best destination spa!'
  • One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the 'World's best destination spa!'
  • One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the 'World's best destination spa!'
  • One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the 'World's best destination spa!'
  • One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the 'World's best destination spa!'

One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta, the "World's best destination spa!"

Item Number
161
Estimated Value
7000 USD
Sold
6600 USD to mk4afc775
Number of Bids
23  -  Bid History

Item Description

Enjoy a one-week stay for two at Rancho La Puerta Fitness Resort & Spa, just voted "World's Best Destination Spa" by readers ofTravel & Leisure Magazine. Located just 45 miles southeast of the city of San Diego, the world's first fitness resort (est. 1940) rests in the embrace of sacred Mt. Kuchumaa's foothills. In this paradise for nature-lovers, walkers and adventurous hikers, 3000 private acres of rolling terrain afford each guest a plethora of panoramic sights, challenging trails (beginner to advanced), and an expansive feeling of freedom and well being. 

But hiking is just the beginning. A fitness program led by a team of expert instructors features more than 60 different classes per week, including yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, strength and conditioning, NIA, Fit Ball, and water aerobics. Tennis and other sports are popular activities. 

The ranche's landscaping is world-renowned. Casitas nestle into a botanical palette of perennial-blooming native plants, sycamores, oak woodlands, wildflowers, and granite boulder outcrops covering almost half of a square mile. Year-round and migratory birds frequent the oasis-like grounds to the extent that Audubon Society groups consider it a birders paradise. 

The spa's own organic farm provides a talented culinary staff with ample fruits and vegetables for the freshest meals possible. It's Mexican-Mediterranean cuisine has been celebrated by Gourmet magazine: the Ranch calls it "modified vegetarian," and it is rich in low-carb, low-fat essentials that make it compatible with most popular diet regimens today as well as an active week of exercise and relaxation. Fresh fish from the seaport town of Ensenada is a daily mainstay.

A new culinary center, La Cocina Que Canta ("The Kitchen That Sings") is a 4,500-square-foot building comprising of a large hands-on classroom/kitchen, cookbook library, and culinary gift shop -- all set in the heart of the spa's famous 6-acre organic farm "Tres Estrellas" (Three Stars). Guests can harvest their vegetables and learn how to cook healthily.

Personal services at the spa's three health centers include a wide range of massages, facials, herbal wraps, and body treatments. Evening programs feature noted speakers, authors, adventurers, physicians and other luminaries 

Your bid includes accommodations for two, all meals and snacks, all scheduled fitness classes and activities, lectures, and entertainment, use of all facilities and scheduled transportation from San Diego Airport on Saturday, and return 7 days later. 

Item Special Note

This One week stay for 2 at Rancho La Puerta will be in a "Villa Studio Double room" and include all food, beverages, snacks, access to over 50 different fitness classes a day, evening programs, and scheduled transportation to and from the San Diego Airport.

This vacation package must be redeemed within two years and is available for booking during months of July through December.