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
Blissful 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 remedies. The Homestead Spa has males’s and girls’s aqua thermal suites in addition to outside heated swimming pools.
I booked our room without spending a dime utilizing my Enterprise X card‘s $300 a yr journey credit score + just a few 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 may maximize our time there. If you happen to guide a spa service, you get entry for the day. You may as well purchase a day go when you simply need 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 outdoors 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
Blissful bday!
Lunch within the Leisure Room
After the sauna we went to the co-ed loosen up room for lunch. We received takeout pizza and a salad from Woody’s because the spa restaurant had a restricted menu. Fortunately they supplied to convey 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 a lot sizzling! The showers had been all slightly too chilly for me.
Facial + Therapeutic massage
After a number 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 superb!
Put up facial I took a bathe and we received 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 received 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 respectable dishes.
All of the chocolate for the birthday boy!
We watched Elf in mattress after dinner – one of the best!
Brunch
For breakfast the following 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 nearly each season!
