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 satisfied forty second birthday to Thomas! I deliberate a one-night getaway to The Homestead for his birthday final Thursday. The main target of our keep was the spas since Thomas loves saunas and water therapies. 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!)
Due to Eileen for watching Birchie for the evening! We left Cville after faculty 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. If you happen to e-book a spa service, you get entry for the day. You can too purchase a day go if you happen to simply wish to use the swimming pools.
Steam coming off the heated pool and sizzling tub –
After turning into robes, we met within the mineral tub which is fed by a pure sizzling spring. It was FREEZING exterior with snow flurries and robust 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 satisfied bday!
Lunch within the Rest Room
After the sauna we went to the co-ed loosen up room for lunch. We bought takeout pizza and a salad from Woody’s because the spa restaurant had a restricted menu. Fortunately they provided to carry us Woody’s.
Aqua Thermal Suite
After lunch we went to our personal locker rooms to get pleasure from 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 a little bit too chilly for me.
Facial + Therapeutic massage
After plenty of water exercise, we met within the loosen up 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 bought prepared to move 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 bought some champagne!
Jefferson’s Lounge
We determined to go to Jefferson’s Lounge for dinner which isn’t fairly as fancy as a few of the different locations. However first we took some pics with the large tree!
Outdated Common
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 first rate dishes.
All of the chocolate for the birthday boy!
We watched Elf in mattress after dinner – the very best!
Brunch
For breakfast the subsequent day we went to the Audubon Eating room for his or her buffet. We crammed up and referred to as it brunch.
The final time we went to the Homestead was in the summertime with the children so now we’ve been there virtually each season!