It's easy to work up an appetite sweating under a hot sun, replenishing sunscreen and raising service flag. Fortunately, Bajan Blue is located at beach level and is easily accessed, offering an all-day extensive menu of Asian, Mediterranean, and Barbadian dishes. Scrumptious, artfully exhibited buffet tables of fresh lobster tails, giant prawns, oysters, mussels, and swordfish, vegetables and grains, roasted chicken, pork, and beef, all vie for your attention before you succumb to scenic dessert table display overflowing with chocolate éclairs, crème Brulé, fresh fruit, and other delicacies, insuring that while you're a guest at The Sandy Lane you won't, at anytime, go hungry. Rather, you may need to make a visit to their state-of-the-art fitness facilities.

Which brings us to The Sandy Lane Spa!

The Sandy Lane Spa is jewel in this island crown. Featuring 47,000-square-feet housed in marble, granite, and warm cherry woods. This superlative facility has much to offer weary traveler. From a 2,500-square-foot state-of-the-art fitness room to VIP treatment suites that feature mood-enhancing light, private showers, bathroom and change rooms, including some with private gardens, others with hydrotherapy rooms and skylights — combined to make your experience at The Sandy Lane Spa one of tranquil luxury.

Get Your Yoga DVD hereAfter steam room, a personal favorite is Ice Cave, a real treat for cooling down after a rigorous workout. I must admit hydrotherapy room with underwater massage bath and Blitz Jet room were also high on list of enticing features. For those interested in keeping Chakras tuned up there is a Chakra therapy room with a heated plinth. There are private rooms for relaxation, yoga, or meditation, as well as a private Pilates exercise room. The free-form swimming pool offers up 7,500-square-feet of water to refresh and relax in or to enjoy lunch and drinks at swim-up bar and café just outside spa entrance.

There are an abundance of treatment options to choose from: Face Therapy, Body Envelopments, Waxing, Holistic Hand and Foot Treatments; full-day Spa programmes: Mind & Body, Ayurvedic Holistic Body Treatments, Bajan Synchronized Massage, and Shirodhara; or half-day treatments: Purify Herbal Linen Wrap with hot stones, Marine Hydrotherapy Bath, or totally blissful back, face, and scalp treatments. All are designed with your personal needs in mind; surely there will be something to entice you to take advantage of unique treatment options offered at The Spa.

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Planning a large wedding, small picnic, or just stealing a little naptime? The expansive grounds at Gold Mountain Manor are perfect place for all of these options.

Above: The den, complete with pool table and beautiful forest views. Below: The living room with comfy couch, piano and desk.

Indoors, it's much easier than breaking your back panning for gold to find a number of places amid 6,000 square foot log cabin for relaxation and romance. Throughout, you will spy bird's eye maple floors and exposed beamed ceilings and numerous period antiques to cozy up to and nosh on a warm, freshly baked cookie, no matter what season of year. In living room, a Kimball player piano caught my eye and required further investigation after I read guest books filled with lavish praises. Creaking wood floors, comfy overstuffed chairs and lodge décor invites guests to make ones self at home in what I'd certainly call "the real thing." Soak in atmosphere, watch large screen television, or test your luck on their antique nickel slot machine, but large game room is perfect for relaxing after a day laboring in gold mine, hiking, or skiing on nearby slopes. Warm your bones by one of many real wood-burning fireplaces, either in game room, your own suite, or in antique filled living room.

In your room, therapeutic aromatherapy milk baths built for two are perfect place to share a bottle of champagne with that special someone, as bubbles float around your luxury suite. It's a guarantee that no matter where you go throughout Gold Mountain Manor, a flock of charming antique bird houses or lit accent candles will easily be found. It's no rumor; some birdcages even have captive monkeys, so see if you can find them while soothing music is piped through hidden speakers in public areas tantalizing your ears.

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