Vancouver's Shangri-La Hotel is arguably one of the world’s leading luxury hotels. When it comes to its wellness retreats, this is where the wow-factor really sets in. As soon as guests step off the fifth-floor elevator, they are instantly transported to an elegant sanctuary of tranquillity at the award-winning CHI, The Spa at Shangri-La.
Although the spa prides itself on its sumptuous surroundings, it is also very much focused on traditional Asian healing techniques, which are based on the principles of restoring balance and harmony to the mind and body. CHI incorporates wellness philosophies from a number of ancient Eastern cultures, including China, Thailand, India and the Philippines.
Spa manager Mariska Hooijberg explains, “CHI offers unique treatments fusing Eastern and Western therapeutic practices combined with the highest standards in design, service and delivery. Every visit to CHI is a truly unforgettable experience.”
An indulgent urban oasis in the heart of downtown, the ultra luxurious Chi Spa is located on the fifth floor at the Shangri La Hotel. Clients who book an appointment at the zen-like sanctuary are pampered in spacious private treatment rooms appointed with stylish Asian-inspired décor. The spa menu offers various deluxe facial options: try a customized refresher facial personalized for your skin; an anti-aging facial performed with a nourishing collagen masque and pressure-point massage; or an opulent $200 golden caviar facial, which uses caviar extract as the active ingredient to hydrate and balance your skin’s moisture levels.
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city — even with Georgia Street a few floors below — and enter the calming atmosphere of the Shangri-La Hotel’s CHI spa. Treatments here are all focused around the Chinese philosophy of the life force, or chi, that flows through each of us. With this in mind they encourage movement to release anything that may be blocking this flow. Consider hydrotherapy, exercise, mediation and unique Chinese-inspired offerings as you slip away from your physical presence in the West to a truly blissful experience of the East.