BEIJING’S FIRST LUXURY SPA OPENS AT THE ST REGIS

Beijing will have its first luxury city spa when the new St. Regis Spa & Club opens at the beginning of September 2001. The St. Regis Spa & Club, which will be the first 5 Star natural spring water spa in Beijing, is part of an impressive development adjoining The St. Regis Beijing which also incorporates The St. Regis Residence – 70 luxury serviced apartments which are managed by The St. Regis Beijing, the Chinese capital’s finest hotel.

The new St. Regis Spa & Club, which occupies the first four levels of the new complex, is conveniently accessible from both the hotel and the apartments. Hotel guests and Club members which include apartment residents will be able to enjoy a wide range of leisure, spa, sports and entertainment facilities including an enormous 465 sq. m fitness centre with state-of-the-art training equipment, a vast Roman-style 25-metre indoor swimming pool, squash courts, an 8 Lane bowling centre, golf driving and putting areas, snooker & billiard rooms, library, the Astor Grill restaurant and a cigar lounge.

The new St. Regis Spa has been designed as an urban sanctuary of “Total Body Wellness”. The 2,000 square meter facility will be the most luxurious and well equipped of its kind in Beijing. Defining the true meaning of the word “spa” (healing by water), it will be supplied with natural hot spring water which is drawn from 1500 metres below the surface to provide the very ultimate spa experience.

International spa consultant Deborah Mangum-Copelli, who is behind some of Asia’s leading spas including the Amrita Spas at Raffles and The Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore, has worked closely with The St. Regis Beijing in the development of the concept and services to be provided by this exclusive facility.

The showpiece of the new St. Regis Spa & Club is a magnificent glass-enclosed heated swimming pool. Overlooking manicured gardens and bathed in natural light, the opulent pool area with its mosaic frescos and balcony dining terrace, features a hot mineral spring Jacuzzi and cool whirlpool as well as comfortable chaises for lounging.

The spa features 10 luxurious treatment rooms, where professionally trained therapists provide different styles of European, Western and Oriental massage as well as traditional spa therapy treatments such as full body salt scrubs, mud wraps and masks, facials, travel fatigue and body rejuvenating treatments. The St. Regis Spa uses only the most natural Jurlique products from Australia and also offers a range of traditional Chinese medicine, massage and facial treatments from expert Chinese doctors and Chinese Medicine consultants.

Separate male and female spa facilities provide the utmost privacy for guests to enjoy luxurious Jacuzzi spa pools with healing hot mineral spring water and cool plunges, and sauna and aroma steam rooms. For relaxation, there are modern and well-appointed multi-media relaxation lounges with personal wireless remote headsets.

To complement the concept of “Total Body Wellness”, the St. Regis Spa will serve Spa cuisine at the Pool Bar, in the Astor Grill restaurant and in the hotel’s Garden Court restaurant, as well as on the in-room dining menu. St. Regis Spa cuisine gives a new definition to spa food, offering delicious yet nutritiously balanced meals which are low in fat, sodium and cholesterol.

The St Regis Spa will be offering special spa packages ranging from 1 ¾ to 4 ½ hours of pure pampering. Guests can also book in for 3-5 day or even 2 week long packages where the Spa team will design a special personal spa program to help guests achieve their health and fitness goals. The Spa is open daily from 9am-9pm.

The St. Regis Spa & Club is a new luxury spa and club brand conceptualized by The St. Regis Beijing, and is a joint venture comprising The Beijing International Club Corporation, Starwood, China Resources and Sun Hung Kai, respectively. The name St. Regis carries respect worldwide and stands in a class of its own.

The St. Regis Beijing (formerly the Beijing International Club) encompasses 273 luxuriously appointed guestrooms of which half are suites. The St. Regis Beijing offers its guest the legendary St. Regis Butler service which provides 24-hour service to all guests through personal butlers. It also offers a choice of 5 international restaurants and bars, as well as meeting and function facilities for events of up to 350 people.

The St. Regis Beijing is superbly located in the centre of Beijing’s business, shopping and diplomatic precinct, just a few minutes from Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Silk Market. It is 30 kilometres (approximately 20 minutes by car) from Beijing International Airport and easily accessible from Chang An Avenue, 2nd Ring Road and 3rd Ring Road.

St Regis is the newly created luxury brand of Starwood Hotels, and takes its name from the internationally-acclaimed St. Regis in New York City, the legendary flagship hotel that has defined Old World luxury for almost a century.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 725 properties in 80 countries and 120,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. With internationally renowned brands, Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchiser of hotels and resorts including:
St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton, W brands, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts.