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
Comfortable 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 + just a few factors. (Study extra on how this works right here!)
Due to Eileen for watching Birchie for the night time! We left Cville after faculty drop off on Thursday – it’s just 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. It’s also possible to purchase a day cross in the event you simply need to use the swimming pools.
Steam coming off the heated pool and scorching tub –
After turning into robes, we met within the mineral tub which is fed by a pure scorching 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 scorching tub earlier than actually working to the sauna.
Sauna folks <3
Comfortable bday!
Lunch within the Leisure Room
After the sauna we went to the co-ed calm down room for lunch. We bought takeout pizza and a salad from Woody’s for the reason that spa restaurant had a restricted menu. Fortunately they supplied to carry 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 a lot scorching! The showers had been all somewhat 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!
Submit facial I took a bathe and we bought prepared to go to our room.
Our Room
The Homestead generously gave us a room improve for the night time! 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 number of the different locations. However first we took some pics with the large tree!
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We shared kalamata olive bread to start out, 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 very best!
Brunch
For breakfast the subsequent day we went to the Audubon Eating room for his or her buffet. We stuffed up and known 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!