8 Fun Spa and Wellness Ideas for You and Your Friends

Rejuvenate with a fun and healthy trip to one of Sonoma County’s popular spas. Whether you’re planning a girl’s day or a couples’ trip, everyone deserves to be pampered.

In Wine Country, spa treatments celebrate local, seasonal ingredients — think grape-seed body scrubs, apple-blossom balms, and honey facials.

Below are some unique spas and wellness treatments you and your friends will surely love.

boon hotel + spa, Guerneville

Near Armstrong Redwoods, this calm oasis offers spa services that promise to make you “feel like a feathery pillow that’s just been fluffed.”

Seasonal: Seaweed body wrap, using seaweed from the Pacific Ocean. 

Signature: Boon Bliss, which pairs a Swedish massage with a facial.

Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, Sonoma

The spectacular, state-of-the-art Fairmont Mission Inn & Spa spans 40,000 square feet, encompassing 36 treatment rooms, and indoor and outdoor pools. Guests come from around the world to experience the baths, which are fed by the resort’s underground natural thermal springs. The healing waters are rich with 24 trace minerals and rise to the surface at 135 degrees, where they are cooled to the perfect warmth for guests. 

Seasonal: The regenerative Harvest Kur treatment incorporates antioxidants to promote relaxation and the immune system with a luxurious soak, body wrap, and full-body massage.

Signature: Included with every visit, the Bathing Ritual features an exfoliating shower, two mineral water soaking pools, herbal steam, a dry sauna, and cool-down showers.

Kenwood Inn & Spa, Kenwood

Blink, and you might miss this boutique hotel shrouded with ivy, roses, and trees on a gentle hillside in the town of Kenwood. It’s an exclusive retreat with a select number of premium rooms. But this elegant spa is open to everyone who wants to indulge in top-notch pampering. 

Seasonal: The Espresso & Mud Detoxifying Body Treatment begins with exfoliation using volcanic pumice and coffee Arabica, followed by a warm wrap of mineral-rich clay to help smooth, firm, and detoxify the skin.

Signature: The 80-minute Rest & Renewal Massage is customized to release tension, improve sleep, reduce stress, and soothe muscles.

Farmhouse Inn, Forestville

Talk about a fancy farmhouse. Sophisticated spa rooms glitter with fireplaces, farmhouse-chic decor, and farm-to-table signatures like heirloom apples from the inn’s ranch and herbs grown in the garden.

Seasonal: The Personal Apothecary treatment partners with you and your spa alchemist to create a customized treatment, including a unique and therapeutic palette of oils, butters, and exfoliants for you.

Signature: Indulge in a Warming Ginger Honey massage or a “body melt” that uses a warm pillow of muscle-healing herbs, alfalfa hay, lavender, and chamomile.

Blush A Day Spa, Sonoma

Directed by international skin care expert Dolores de Alba, this spa specializes in facials and body treatments with custom skin care regimes to continue on your own. If you don’t have the entire afternoon, then here you can indulge in an hour-long facial, foot soak, or a power cleanse/power nap/power glow treatment.

Seasonal: The Power Quench is perfect for tired skin, with a 30-minute Hydrate and Plump treatment rich with essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

Signature: Book the spa with 3 to 5 guests and services totaling $1,100 to enjoy 4 to 5 hours of exclusive spa time plus a glass of sparkling wine or Rosé and a light snack.

The Lodge at Bodega Bay, Bodega Bay

The lodge’s stone building sits in a stunning setting, overlooking the Sonoma coastline and anchored by an outdoor heated swimming pool and whirlpool spa.

Seasonal: Beach-theme treatments include the warm ocean shell massage.

Signature: Aromatherapy Massage with essential oils of herbs, flowers, and trees to relax, balance, and stimulate the body, mind, and spirit.

Gaige House, Glen Ellen

For guests who want the intimacy of a bed-and-breakfast with the amenities of a luxury resort, this small family-run home brims with high style and top-notch services.

Seasonal: Try the Trouble Spots treatment, addressing neck, shoulders and legs needing relief, followed by a soothing soak in the heated pool and steam in the sauna.

Signature: Relax poolside or in a hammock overlooking Calabazas Creek, then move on to treatments in the loft or enjoy a massage in the gardens. Reserve a Japanese-style Zen Suite with granite soaking tubs for two, floor-to-ceiling sliding glass walls, and private bamboo gardens.

Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary, Freestone

This beautiful property offers a Kyoto-style meditation garden, a wild riparian area, a field of hammocks, creek-side sand gardens, and massage pagodas scattered inside a peaceful woodland crisscrossed by babbling creeks. Arrive early, change into your robe, and sip tea in the garden.

Seasonal: Slough off dry winter skin with the Ultra Hydrating facial infused with hyaluronic acid and aloe to deeply hydrate, soften and plump the skin.

Signature: If you’ve never tried a cedar enzyme bath, you owe it to yourself to sink into this bit of heaven in wooden tubs filled with finely ground cedar, rice bran, and plant enzymes. 

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Written by Sonoma Insider Carey Sweet