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MONART -
SPA HOTEL – ENNISCORTHY
IRELAND
Total Luxury Spa Experience in Wexford County
Monart, a simple
name, clean and elegant - perfect for a single minded luxury spa hotel
experience.
When I presented my entry card at the airport
with Monart filled out as my address while staying in Ireland, the officer
looked at me and nodded as if wishing he too could escape his cage of
daily stress, perhaps envying the treat which lie ahead for me, an escape
which frankly he probably wished he could afford. Monart, a modern purpose
built luxury spa hotel property on the grounds of an 18th Century estate
in Wexford County, Ireland, about an hour south of Dublin has been recently
named by Conde Nast Traveler as the number two spa destination in the
world, and one can easily see why. With a motto of “rest, relax
and transform” Monart is all about the spa and getaway from the
stresses of the everyday.
An
adults only environment where resident guests are encouraged to wander
freely about in the
plush provided and monogrammed robes, from spa to
restaurant to garden, whih no need to return to the trappings of the
workady world for your entire time there, if you so please. The experience
at Monart is all about the escape from the demands of the
modern day
struggle.
Turn
off the
cell
phone,
ignore the urgent messages from work, or junior’s latest drama.
For a one-of-a-kind couples romantic retreat or a rewind, refresh and
rejuvenate weekend or week.
Arriving at Monart, through the gates into the wooded grounds you are
presented with single stone manor of Monart House, built in 1740 by Nathanial
Cookman, a financier to George I, the first of the English kings from
the house of Hanover. Passing through the old house from two centuries
past, you enter the distinctive contemporary elegance of the modern hotel
though a glass enclosed walk. Privacy, peace and exclusivity are the
mantra to breathe and absorb the surrounding natural woodland air. Every
room has a terrace looking out on the woods of the natural garden of
water ponds and stone bridges.
Monart
has three restaurants, the fine dining main room of crystal chandeliers
with
a menu which
includes the best one can expect, a garden lounge and
bar with the vantage of the garden ponds outdoors or relaxing bistro
style indoors, and even the spa has a café so one may never have
to leave the conceptual heart of the experience. The restaurant menus
and even the bar offer special detox offerings to compliment the spa
treatments - or just enjoy the seasonal menu of gourmet quality.
Afternoon tea can be taken in the historic old rooms on the manor house
for a
romantic
curl
up by
the
fire
in old
world
atmosphere,
or in the garden surrounded by ducks on the pond.
The Spa at Monart is a wonderland of treatment rooms and relaxation.
A wide range of professional spa treatments by are offered, massage,
facials, body wraps of exotic variety from green coffee to mango yogurt,
mud baths of imported Canadian moor mud, aromatic oils and dry flotation,
up to full week-long detox courses. In addition to the wide and extensive
selection of treatments, the spa offers a variety of rooms for relaxation
- the Caldarium is one of the most popular spots for is dry-warm relaxing
environment, a traditional Finnish Sauna for the more intense, a Scandinavian
Sunarium, aromatic steam room of Eucalyptus vapor to cleanse the body
and revitalize the mind, Salt Grotto and Hydrotherapy pool. Swimwear
is required in the spa areas for most of the time, though a nude hour
from 8am to 9am every morning is available for those who want to shed
all the trappings, at least for an hour.
For the active, Monart
provides for walks on the grounds or golf excursions can be arranged
at some
of the nearby golf courses, Enniscorthy Golf
Club four minutes away and the conceptual walking course at Bunclody
Golf & Fishing Club. There are horses on the property in the “Gallops” but
for riding a number of Equestrian Centers are located nearby in the beautiful
south east of Ireland. The Wexford Racecourse holds nine days of racing
in the year. Chauffeur driving sightseeing tours can be arranged including
a picnic and drinks. For international travelers, fly in to Dublin, public
transport is possible, by train to Wexford, then taxi, though it’s
best to drive. From the UK, Monart is not far from the ferry port at
Rosslare, so easy to drive over from bustling London or elsewhere for
your relaxing Irish spa escape. © Bargain
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