Enjoy a detoxifying spa treatment each day after skiing (cacao scrub and wrap on day one, lymphatic drainage and and detox facial on day two, and coffee scrub and wrap on day three). Where La Pleta, Lleida, Spain. Also includes Daily water circuit, breakfast buffet, and shuttle service to the ski slopes , Molton Brown spa products; and a bottle of sparkling wine. Book "Occitania Detox," from $1,150 per person for five nights, through April 19.

Hotel Esencia has been selected as one of the Readers' Choice Top 100. It is stated as being an ultra private resort built around a whitewashed villa with a spectacular beach.

“It’s not just a matter of having a spa, but of having the finest spa,” says Jose Villela, president of International Group Sales, Flower Mound, Texas. The meeting executive, a native of Mexico, has seen a spa boom at top Mexico resorts over the past eight years that has resulted in today’s world-class spas at many properties throughout the country. The increase in the number of spas reflects a rise in the demand for spa services.

On the Riviera Maya, Sandra Beltran, vice president of sales and marketing of Prohotel International, the management company for Esencia on Playa Xpu-Ha, 46 miles south of Cancún, notes a 30 percent increase in the demand for spa services by incentive groups over the past two years.

A patch of welcome understatement on a coast of big-bigger-biggest resorts, Esencia has neither a giant waterfall nor a maximum-security guard gate to mark its presence. Ther's just a small sign and, for reception, a typical Mayan house. That's in keeping with its former life, the winter refuge of an Italian duchess. Then, as now, it was a place for those who don't like to share paradise.