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A Measure of Luxury
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Spa Opens In Placer Valley
Placer Valley is California’s new destination, encompassing the cities of Roseville, Rocklin, Lincoln and neighboring communities along the I-80 corridor between Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada, 80 miles northeast of San Francisco. Placer Valley’s shopping, lodging, restaurants, and nightlife transcend the area’s rural nature. The Rocklin Park Hotel, Placer Valley’s only AAA Four Diamond property, recently opened a full service day spa. The spa offers massages, facials, body treatments, acupressure and couples massage. The Rocklin Park Spa also features outdoor massages with panoramic views of the surrounding Sierra Nevada foothills. The Rocklin Park Hotel & Spa is located at 5450 China Garden Road, just off I-80. For more information call (916) 630-400 or visit www.RocklinPark.com. For visitor information, call Placer Valley Tourism at (800) 773-0522, (916) 773-5400 or visit www.placertourism.com. (*)
Placer Valley Visitor Guide Now Available
Planning a vacation, meeting or sporting event in Placer Valley just got easier with the release of the Placer Valley Visitor Guide. The 24-page guide is full of useful trip planning information and descriptive text, showcasing the best of Placer Valley, California. The brochure features descriptions and attraction maps for Placer Valley’s primary cities and surrounding areas. The guide also includes pages dedicated to area hotels and local events, plus a convenient postcard to mail in for more information about lodging, sporting events, recreation, shopping, dining, festivals, and agricultural tourism. Placer Valley features lodging choices that emphasize value and customer service, fine dining, brand name shopping, abundant outdoor recreation, championship golf courses, Las Vegas-style gaming, a Native American heritage center, museums and galleries, a year round calendar of festivals and cultural events, plus locally grown produce at farmer’s markets, farms and orchards. To order a free copy of the Placer Valley Visitor Guide, call Placer Valley Tourism at (800) 773-0522 or visit www.PlacerTourism.com. (*)
The Jewel in the Town: Jaipur's Rambagh Palace
If out of the way luxury is what you had in mind, consider jetting off to Jaipur for a stay at the Rambagh Palace, the first royal residence in India to be converted into a hotel. (Sleek and service-minded Jet Airways, favored by India’s knowledgeable business travelers -- www.jetairways.com -- offers several short flights a day to the Pink City from Mumbai and Delhi. Jet now flies from London, as well.)
A former home of the Maharaja of Jaipur built in 1835, the Rambagh Palace is now run by the estimable Taj group, and it shows. You are greeted upon arrival with a cold glass of fresh pineapple juice, a garland of flowers and a quick escort to your room where all those boring check-in formalities can be handled in comfort. In the room, you are charmed by a thousand small touches: Not one but two robes for each guest -- it wouldn’t do to use the silk robe right out of the shower; there’s the terry version for that. The verbena-scented soap warrants pride of place in any lingerie drawer; your newspaper is delivered in an embroidered cloth bag.
Dinner in the Suvarna Mahal restaurant offers a choice of the lesser-known, but equally delicious, cuisines of the subcontinent, served on gold-plated dishes. Opt for a casual lunch or drinks outdoors and you are seated overlooking what was once the Maharaja’s own polo field. How very top drawer. Among the hotel’s many services are jodhpur-clad personal butlers, 47 acres of lush grounds populated with peacocks, and -- but of course -- an astrologer. While you mustn’t miss the street shopping downtown, you can’t go wrong in the hotel’s own arcade, where the prices are reasonable and the quality guaranteed. (Don’t miss the beautiful and well-priced jewelry and antique decorative items at Amrapali.) For more information, go to www.tajhotels.com
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