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New Orleans' Belladonna Day Spa Pledges to be Kind-Hearted on Behalf of
Tsunami Victims
Edited By Madelyn Miller, the travellady
 For the months of February and March, Belladonna Day Spa
will be focused on raising funds to benefit the victims of the Asian tsunami
disaster. They have named their focus “Be Kind-Hearted.” Be Kind-Hearted will be
donating money raised from product sales, service sales, and special events to
Unicef for tsunami relief.
They hope to bring more awareness to clients, staff and
community about the tsunami that wiped away homes, schools, and health
facilities while demolishing thousands of kilometers of roads, bridges and power
lines and irrevocably altered the lives of millions of people. Over 157,000
people were killed, 27,194 missing, and over 1 million people have been
displaced.
Staff will be wearing white tee shirts and lapel pins with
the Be Kind-Hearted logo. These tee shirts and pins will be available for
purchase for the months of February and March.
They have chosen products throughout the spa around which
red ribbons will be tied. We will donate 5% of the sales of these products for
the months of February and March to tsunami relief. Clients can contribute by
purchasing these red-ribbon products.
Special services were for these Be Kind-Hearted months and
the spa will donate $5.00 to tsunami relief for each of the special services
received.
Be kind-hearted spa services
Be a chocoholic: the choco-palooza
Body deluxe
3 hours $225.00
For those of you who have that never-ending fascination with anything
chocolate, Belladonna Day Spa has developed this sinfully delicious service just
for you. You start your Chocopalooza in a serenely romantic still bath, laced
with chocolate and raspberry sprinkles filled with nourishing almond oil,
exquisite salts, and healing extracts while you listen to one of the Be on the
Right Track Romance CD’s. You can feel yourself surrender, especially after one
of our scrumptious chocolate truffles. You are then escorted to one of our
treatment rooms, where your massage therapist will begin a light exfoliation
using a raspberry scrub, rich in vitamin B and aloe vera. This gentle scrub will
enhance the appearance of your skin and prepare you for your Chocolate Surrender
Body Treatment, a chocolate body mask rich and soothingly smooth, and great for
any skin type, especially after a hard, cold winter. Relax while you are
cocooned in the mask and your therapist massages your face, neck and scalp. You
follow this service with a shower. Returning to the table, your therapist
utilizes “raspberry syrup” to massage the remaining stress from your body. We
apply our infamous Relief Gel to get at those extra difficult spots in your back
and then apply a decadent chocolate paraffin to melt away those stress and
strains. Then enjoy a 50 minute massage utilizing our chocolate syrup massage
oil to complete your Choco-palooza.
Mini choco-palooza
90 minutes $125.00
Not all of us can be THAT indulgent time wise, but who says you can’t do the
abbreviated choco-palooza. In a mini version of the previous service we do a
scrumptious exfoliation using our raspberry scrub to enhance the appearance of
your skin and prepare for the Chocolate Surrender Body Treatment, the chocolate
body mask rich and lusciously hydrating to winter dehydrated skin. You shower
and return to the table for our Chocolate Stress Relief utilizing a chocolate
whip crème, a silky moisturizer rich in willow and aloe vera, and calorie free,
our Relief Gel, and then the chocolate paraffin. A massage application of our
chocolate whip crème follows.
Manicure au chocolat
1 hour $40.00
Treat yourself to an indulgent chocolate raspberry manicure. Enjoy our
chocolate truffles while your hands are completely pampered in chocolate and
raspberry products designed to treat and repair your hands. The chocolate nutty
scrub is a luxurious way to smooth away dry flaking skin, and allow the rich
avocado oil, vitamins and nutritious meadow foam seed oil to do their thing.
Then enjoy a massage using “raspberry syrup,” rich in antioxidizing vitamins and
extracts. Submerge your hands in the utmost of decadence, chocolate and
raspberry paraffin, known for its ultra hydrating benefits. You end your
manicure with an application of Chocolate Whip Crème and polish. All are
calorie-free except the delicious truffles. Enjoy!!
Pedicure au chocolat
1 hour $55.00
The sweetest treat for your feet, the spa presents their pedicure au
chocolat, utilizing the utmost in decadent chocolate products. We gently soak
the feet in chocolate sprinkles, which will raise anyone’s spirits and relax the
mind. We then exfoliate rough dry skin with our Chocolate Blizzard, a natural
sea salt scrub infused with rich oils and extracts to assist in revitalizing
dull skin. A delicious cocoa aroma enhances the whole experience. Raspberry
syrup enticingly caresses the feet and legs to surrender all remaining stress.
We then apply the Chocolate Surrender Mask that is utterly and deliciously
soothing to the feet. Enjoy your chocolate truffles, fantasize to the Be on the
Right Track Romance CD and indulge in the chocolate whip crème application to
finish such an enticing treatment.
S.W.A.K facial
1 hour $95.00
The S.W.A.K. Facial, developed to help clients address the damage a harsh
winter can wreak on our skin, from fluctuating temperatures, to dry heat, and
flaky skin. The S.W.A.K. Facial is the most gentle of all our facials using all
natural ingredients known for their hydrating and rejuvenating benefits. Yogurt,
honey, and essential oil of rose are used to gently exfoliate away dry, flaky
skin while drenching the skin with much needed restorative emollients.
Following a relaxing pressure point massage they apply a
powerful DNA skin repair complex that helps speed cell renewal, tighten pores
and dramatically increase your skin’s moisture level. Top that with a super
hydrating rose, oat, and honey mask and seal it with an intensely hydrating pure
collagen blanket infused with soothing extracts of aloe vera, and your skin will
be supple and totally transformed. Spring is not far away.
Be rubbed the right way
2 one-hour sessions including oils, lotion, and a book - $125.00
Belladonna introduces this special package for couples who want to learn
“how to” properly massage each other, with the guidance of a licensed
professional massage therapist and all the right products. The package consists
of everything one needs to learn about how to make that special person in your
life feel great and totally pampered. Bottles of Belladonna’s own provocative
Sensual Blend Massage Oil, therapeutic Muscle Therapy Blend Massage Oil, and
Vanilla Massage Lotion are included as well as a copy of The Book of Massage, an
informative, illustrated book on massage techniques from basic to the more
advanced. The cherry on top is a gift card for two one-hour sessions of “hands
on” training by one of Belladonna’s licensed massage therapists.
Be together
4.5 hours - $375.00 for 2
This popular couples package is a regular feature on Belladonna’s extensive
menu of services. It includes the choice of a whirlpool or sauna, an indoor or
outdoor massage for two, foot and hand care treatment, followed by lunch and a
split of champagne served in the tea garden. Luscious lagniappe is a take-home
gift of chocolate body paint and paintbrush. Be naughty.
Be in love
4.5 hours/$475.00 for 2
Romantic trist for 2: the Aztecs were the first to document the use of
chocolate as an aphrodisiac. Centuries later, Belladonna has taken their ancient
wisdom and created a romantic chocolate experience, enhanced with beautiful
roses and champagne. Immerse yourselves in a bubbly jacuzzi scattered with rose
petals in our outdoor tranquility garden. Give yourselves to our body therapists
who will rub and scrub both of you with our fabulously delicious chocolate nutty
scrub, followed by an enticing massage for two with our special chocolate syrup
on rose scattered massage tables. Lunch together leisurely in the tea garden
while sipping champagne while the waterfalls whisper sweet nothings. Your hands
and feet are next to be indulged in chocolate heaven. Using all delicious
chocolate products we perform our chocolat manicure followed by the luscious
pedicure au chocolat while listening to Andrea Bocelli’s Romanza cd. End your
day together by taking home a jar of our famous chocolate body paint, complete
with brush. Instructions are on the jar. Hint - be naughty.
2900 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisana
70115 891-4393
Monday-Friday, 9AM-8PM Saturday, 9AM-6PM,
For More Information on New Orleans
Helpful Website
www.neworleansonline.com
Great Guidebooks
Access New Orleans
HarperResource/Access Press
www.harpercollins.com
For More Chocolate Ideas
More Fantasies for Chocoholics
Chocolatier Magazine
Great way to get your monthly chocolate fix
Bittersweet
Recipes and Tales from a life in Chocolate
By Alice Medrich
Artisan Books
www.artisanbooks.com
The Everything Chocolate Book
By Laura Tyler Samuels
A chocolate lover’s dream collection of cookies, cakes, brownies, candies and
confections. Over 300 recipes
Adams Media Corporation
www.everything.com
Bake and Freeze Chocolate Desserts
By Elinor Klivans
120 recipes to make now and enjoy later
www.bdd.com
All About Chocolate
The ultimate resource for the World’s Favorite Food
By Carole Bloom
McMillan USA
www.mgr.com
Chocolate Crazy
By Slvia Balser Hirsch
The celebrated Miss Grimble presents more inspired Desserts—all chocolate
MacMillan Publishing Company
Mr. Food Simply Chocolate
Think chocolate goodies are hard to make? Not when you make them Mr. Food’s
way
William Morrow and Company, Inc.
The Chocolate Lover’s Guide To the Pacific Northwest
By Bobbie Hasselbring
Wordsworth Publishing
Chocolate From the Cake Mix Doctor
By Anne Byrn
Workman PUBLISHING
www.workman.com
365 Great Chocolate Desserts
By Natalie Haughton
Harper Collins Publisher
The Totally Chocolate Cookbook
By Helen Siegel and Karen Gillingham
Celestial Arts
Chocolate
The Consuming Passion
By Sandra Boynton
Workman Publishing
www.workman.com
The Little Book of Chocolate
By Katherine Khodorowsky and Herve Robert
Published by Flammarion
Distributed by Rizzoli through St. Martin’s Press
Cinnamon Mornings and Chocolate Dreams
By Pamela Lanier
Lanier Publishing
www.travelguides.com
Good Deeds With Chocolate
Chef Hilly Blondheim has put his culinary skills to good use and turned a
simple boyhood treat into a life-saving instrument in the fight against breast
cancer. Whether its sprinkled on top of fruit or ice cream, to enhance the
flavor of coffee or a smoothie, blended into waffle or pancake batter, used in a
chocolate martini, sampled as fondue, or simply to make the best cup of hot
chocolate you have ever tasted, the possibilities for this gourmet chocolate mix
are endless.
www.chefhillyskitchen.com
Chocolate Travel Opportunities
"The Chocolate Society café and shop at 36 Elizabeth
Street, SW1 London. A mecca
for the chocoholic. Celebrating chocolate as a gourmet delicacy, there are
handmade truffles, biscuits and all sorts of other chocolate-based goodies.
The shop is open from Monday to Saturday - for more information call 020 7259
9222."
Great Chocolate Mousse Festival
New Brunswick, Canada
Sutton Place Hotel weekend chocolate buffet
Toronto, Canada
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Norwegian Caribbean Lines afternoon chocolate buffet
Chocolate tea buffet
Mark Hotel, New York
Chocolate Festival
Poconos Manor Inn and Golf Resort
Pennsylvania
The Lofts Hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio is now offering
chocolate lovers the opportunity to enjoy the ultimate chocolate experience,
while indulging in the luxury of The Lofts. Featuring everything from a
chocolate body massage and a lesson in how to make luxurious hand-dipped
chocolates to a souvenir DVD copy of the movie “Chocolat”, the Pure Imagination
Chocolat Lovers Package is a sweet escape.
The Pure Imagination Chocolat Lovers Package starts at just
$349 per couple and includes:
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Deluxe overnight accommodations at the incredible Lofts
Hotel
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Two consecutive 30-minute chocolate massages
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The Pure Imagination Chocolat Experience: private
chocolate making lesson with renowned chocolatier, Daniel Cooper, teaching
the couple how to make hand-dipped chocolates. Guests will take home four
hand-dipped chocolate-covered strawberries and a gift package of European
hot chocolate
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Dinner for two (a $50 value)
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Nightcap of a bottle of champagne and fresh,
hand-dipped truffles
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Breakfast for two in bed
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Souvenir DVD copy of the movie “Chocolat”
To top off this romantic getaway, couples can have a photo
and a sweet message placed on the jumbo 18’x 32’ ADTV (Arena District
Television) screen, located just a block west of The Lofts in the Arena
District. Guests can even have a proposal or “I love you” message strategically
timed for unveiling to a loved one. The cost of ADTV is $35
Madelyn's Favorite Chocolate Treats
Doubletree Hotel chocolate chip cookies
THE VERY BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES IN THE WORLD
http://www.travellady.com/Issues/February04/WheretoGettheVeryBest.htm
Fairytale Chocolate Brownies 800-fairytale
www.brownies.com
Chocolate Cowboy Crunch from Bumblee Bee’s Baja Grill.
505-820-2862, Santa Fe, New Mexico. You can buzz through and buy them for $2.50
per package. Other irresistible treats are the Cowgirl kisses made of white
chocolate and Espresso Brownies.
Madelyn's Favorite Chocolate Desserts
Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity in New York
Lollipop Tree at DavidBurke and Donatella in New York
(okay, it is not ALL chocolate but it is so wonderful I am making an exception)
Chocolate Hotel
The Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas offers a chocolate replica of its signature
location at Reunion Tower. The Landmark Tower is a decadent dessert filled with
Berry-chocolate ganache and Champagne Mouse on a sea of mango sauce and berries.
At $13 it is a lot better deal than downtown real estate. This stellar sweet is
more than enough for two serious chocoholics and worth every penny for the WOW
factor
Total Body Chocolate Experience
The Golden Door Spa in Carefree, Arizona offers the Chocolate Champagne Body
Wrap. This Valentine's Day-inspired treatment teases the senses with
tantalizing aromas while rejuvenating the skin. The treatment begins with a
double exfoliation using chocolate, Ayurvedic herbs and natural fruit acids. An
anti-oxidant mask of vitamins, green tea, chocolate and fruit of choice is then
applied to the body and spritzed with champagne or healing vanilla water. The
guest is wrapped like a delectable morsel while the active elements begin to
renew and restore the body. Following a light shower, the body is caressed with
an intensive hydrating cream. This unforgettable sensory adventure concludes
with the guest's choice of custom-made chocolate in the same taste as the body
treatment.
Chocolate Drinks
The Chocolate Jacuzzi Martini
Balcony Club 1825 Abrams Rd @ La Vista Dr. Dallas, TX 75214-
6617 214-826-8104
Most Erotic Chocolate Opportunity
Todos Santos in Santa Fe, New Mexico offers a chocolate
kama sutra set. Since I visited right after Valentine’s Day, they were sold out.
Not surprisingly, they cost $69. They can ship them anywhere with a weeks
notice. I am sorry I could not photograph them to give my readers a titillating
preview.
Another interesting offering is “after dinner saints”. You
could also use them after any sin. Saint boxes cost $28 for a box of four, $56
for a box of eight and $84 for twelve saints. I wonder what sins you commit
would need a dozen saints for redemption?
Todos Santos Chocolates and Confections, 125 East Palace
Avenue #31, Santa Fe, New Mexico (505) 982-3855
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