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Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Set on 42 acres of beautiful grounds, this complex has 49 guest rooms in a main building that are augmented by outlying "villas," which each have a kitchen, a sitting area with fireplace, a separate bedroom, and a private deck. The dining room, Kensington's, enjoys a versatile kitchen staff capable of producing meals either conventional or health-minded. The fitness center offers classes in yoga, belly dancing, and Pilates, and the full-service spa is a big-volume operation, with 36 treatment rooms. At that size, some guests have found an impersonal tenor to the experience. While services run from standard-luxurious to silly (Chocolate Chip Aromatherapy Body Wrap, anyone?), the readers of Connecticut Magazine have named it the best day spa in the state for 10 years in a row. The property is owned by the Mashantucket Pequots, whose Foxwoods is visible from the front door.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's New England, 14th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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