I took Thomas on a Homestead vacation for his birthday final week. Right here’s the recap of our one-night keep together with a day on the spa.
Homestead Vacation
Completely happy forty second birthday to Thomas! I deliberate a one-night getaway to The Homestead for his birthday final Thursday. The main focus of our keep was the spas since Thomas loves saunas and water remedies. The Homestead Spa has males’s and girls’s aqua thermal suites in addition to out of doors heated swimming pools.
I booked our room free of charge utilizing my Enterprise X card‘s $300 a yr journey credit score + a couple of factors. (Be taught extra on how this works right here!)
Because of Eileen for watching Birchie for the evening! We left Cville after college drop off on Thursday – it’s slightly below two hours away.
All decked out for the vacations! (This tree is actual!)
The Homestead Spa
We beelined to the spa so we might maximize our time there. In case you e book a spa service, you get entry for the day. It’s also possible to purchase a day go for those who simply need to use the swimming pools.
Steam coming off the heated pool and sizzling tub –
After becoming robes, we met within the mineral bathtub which is fed by a pure sizzling spring. It was FREEZING exterior with snow flurries and powerful gusts of chilly wind, however the water was physique temperature! Getting out was so chilly and we jumped within the sizzling tub earlier than actually working to the sauna.
Sauna folks <3
Completely happy bday!
Lunch within the Leisure Room
After the sauna we went to the co-ed calm down room for lunch. We acquired takeout pizza and a salad from Woody’s for the reason that spa restaurant had a restricted menu. Fortunately they provided to convey us Woody’s.
Aqua Thermal Suite
After lunch we went to our personal locker rooms to take pleasure in all of the options. There’s a heat “coccoon” room (108 levels), a steam room, heated waterfall chairs, and expertise showers. I loved the steam room most of all as a result of it was loads sizzling! The showers had been all just a little too chilly for me.
Facial + Therapeutic massage
After numerous water exercise, we met within the calm down room once more earlier than our 3pm facial (me) and therapeutic massage (Thomas). These had been each excellent!
Put up facial I took a bathe and we acquired prepared to go to our room.
Our Room
The Homestead generously gave us a room improve for the evening! Our room was so spacious and fairly. We additionally acquired some champagne!
Jefferson’s Lounge
We determined to go to Jefferson’s Lounge for dinner which isn’t fairly as fancy as among the different locations. However first we took some pics with the enormous tree!
Outdated Normal
We shared kalamata olive bread to begin, and I had the pan-fried trout for an entree. Thomas had shrimp fettuccini. Each had been good respectable dishes.
All of the chocolate for the birthday boy!
We watched Elf in mattress after dinner – the perfect!
Brunch
For breakfast the following day we went to the Audubon Eating room for his or her buffet. We stuffed up and referred to as it brunch.
The final time we went to the Homestead was in the summertime with the youngsters so now we’ve been there nearly each season!
