Undoubtedly the best week in the year, giving us an excuse to gorge on sumptuous, delicious treats without feeling guilty, National Chocolate Week is a time for chocolate-lovers everywhere to enjoy.
But, if you feel like indulging yourself in all things chocolate, but without the calories, why not whisk yourself away to Gran Canaria where a selection of spas are celebrating with an array of special chocolate treatments.
Only a four hour flight away, the sultry Spanish island of Gran Canaria, enjoys a microclimate averaging 24 degrees all year round and boasts some of the best spas in Europe, with affordable prices. Anyone looking for a getaway to leave them glowing with good health and looking radiant will find all they need and more in Gran Canaria’s luxury spa resorts.
The Gran Canaria Spa, Wellness & Health Association can offer tailor-made packages to ensure that your getaway is the chocolate heaven you’ve always dreamed of, so start saving and try one of these indulgent cocoa treats on holiday in Gran Canaria.
5*Sheraton Salobre Golf Resort & Spa
Chocolate Therapy (60 min) – Let yourself get trapped by the anti-oxidizing properties of chocolate. The chocolate therapy includes cocoa oil and sugar exfoliation, and a wrap in almond and chocolate, followed by a relaxing massage and a hydrating chocolate cream application. No doubt it is a sweet temptation not recommended to diabetics.
4* Hotel Cordial Mogán Playa
Chocolate Dream (60 min) – This treatment will leave you feeling as though you are in paradise…A chocolate paradise! Highly recommended and ideal for refreshing dry skin, this indulgent treatment contains a complete exfoliation of the skin followed by a body wrap and light massage with an application of nutritive cream de cacao. Extra heavenly with the chocolate scent to set off those happy vibes, as chocolate is known to improve your mood with all those feel-good chemicals it contains.
4* Lopesan Costa Meloneras Resort, Corallium Spa & Casino
Corallium Chocolate Fancy (75 min) - The treatment consists of a peeling with salt from the Dead Sea and warm almond oil which is applied on the whole body eliminating dead skin cells and leaving the skin prepared to receive the sublime sensation of warm chocolate.
Afterwards a massage is applied poring warm chocolate on the body through the therapist’s fingers with specific relaxing movements to the sound of Arabian music created especially for this occasion. To complete the treatment, after a cleaning shower a hydrating chocolate cream is applied and the result is a skin enriched and seduced by chocolate.
3* Hotel Eugenia Victoria
Choose from a variety of chocolate treatments including the Chocolate Massage (45 min), Body Peeling with chocolate (30 min) which is a luxurious exfoliating treatment, Chocolate Therapy (90 min) a fabulous corporate treatment or the Caressing Chocolate package (1 hr 30 min) which includes, chocolate peeling on the Hammam, chocolate mousse wrap and a slight massage with chocolate cream.
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Shabana Adam
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