Splurge!
Posted 12/18/05
Spas are nice, but your spirit might need pampering, too. La Casa de Maria, run by an ecumenical community in Santa Barbara, Calif., is one of the best U.S. retreats (and costs about $100 a night), says Marcia Kelly, coauthor of Sanctuaries: the Complete United States--A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats. "When you walk through their gates," she says, "you [enter] a new and peaceful dimension." If that's not enough, there's also a swimming pool.
This story appears in the December 26, 2005 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
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