At Vineyard inns, a variety of workouts and spa services
By Stephen Jermanok, Globe
Correspondent | June 27, 2007
Yoga is just one of the options
being offered at the Winnetu's Island Adventure and Workout
Center, which opened last summer. Along with indigenous spa
treatments featured across the island at the
Mansion House in Vineyard Haven,
Martha's Vineyard's upscale accommodations are becoming
salubrious retreats in hopes of luring the increasingly
popular fitness traveler.
After
burning all this energy, one needs pampering. Mud is not the
first thing that comes to mind when I think of spa
treatments -- a deep-tissue massage is more my style -- but
the special clay exclusively used
Photo courtesy Julia Cumes
in the
Mansion House's Moshup Mud Wrap is harvested legally by
a Wampanoag tribal member near those celebrated Gay Head
Cliffs. The clay is then sweetened with wildflower honey
from the Vineyard's Katama Farm.
The
spa also features the usual lineup of massages, facials, and
manicures, and a sybaritic
three-hour session, the Vineyard
Haven Retreat, which
combines the finer treatments.
Mansion House is also popular with locals who come to the
hotel to use the fitness facility. The health club offers
daily yoga, Pilates, and cardio classes, a large weight room
with elliptical machines and treadmills, and a 75-foot
indoor pool for swimming laps. Whether you want to play
outside or indoors, the Vineyard and its mud have you
covered.
