what really goes on in a spa?

Ahhhh, the spa! Mention the s-word to many Czechs, and you’ll see their faces light up with pleasure. But if you’ve never been to a Czech spa yourself, you may be a little apprehensive (or at least curious) about what goes on when you surrender your tired, broken, bent, or rusty body to the hands of these Slavic sisters (and brothers) of mercy. Read more…

Three Czech spa towns – Mariánské Lázně, Karlovy Vary, and Františkovy Lázně – offer specialized cures as good as gold

Something strange seems to be going on down a corridor of the Nové Lázně hotel in Mariánské Lázně, famed spa town in western Bohemia. Inside many rooms off to the side, people lie inert as if they were passed out or severely out of sorts. Read more…