Healthy Hideway
Travel to Cobourg, Ontario, and you may just return home the very picture of health. In “Ontario’s Feel Good Town,” make it a wellness weekend. Take the “Spa Train” on VIA Rail, where you’ll freshen up with a hot towel before a light lunch while traveling through the relaxing countryside about an hour-and-a-half east of Toronto.
The “Stress Express” will escort you from Cobourg Station to any of seven inns, B&Bs, or quaint cottages, and the destination Ste. Anne’s Spa.
Cobourg was known as “The Newport of the North” by the early 1900s, because of its pure air and water along the beaches of Lake Ontario. Today, visitors don’t need a car because they can walk everywhere in the eco-friendly downtown.
Relax and energize at Ste. Anne’s Spa, by balancing your chakra energy or decompressing with shiatsu before you rest overnight in an 1858 fieldstone castle. At the King George Inn, get the Body Bliss wrap with hydrating soy yogurt at the Heaven On Earth Spa and Wellness Centre.
Have an exfoliating facial at Serenity Day Spa, or an essential-oil scalp massage and a haircut at Mystic Roots.
Cobourg also takes its retail therapy seriously, from Belgian truffles at Harden & Huyse Chocolates and sleepwear at Indulgence Specialties to journals at Paper Lace and gels and lotions at Joie de Vivre. Get your nutrition with coconut fish at The Buttermilk Café or raspberry salmon at The Mill Restaurant. And, give Fifi a healing vacation, too, at the pet spa All Creatures Great & Small.
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