Top 3 New Year's Resolutions for Traveling to Orlando

Indulge in 2007 with New Year's Resolutions focusing on relaxation, exercise, and best of all - having fun! You're probably wondering how relaxation and fun correspond with the typically rigid and disciplinarian New Year's Resolutions you come across and have made for yourself each year. This year it's time to make having fun your number one New Year's Resolution. Central Florida intertwines exercise with fun and relaxation, making it easy to fulfill your desire to transform for the new year. Rejuvenate your body and soul at the Papallon Spa at Westgate Lakes, exercise your golf skills at the Sheraton PGA Vacation Resort, or release your inner child at one of Orlando's several theme parks. Make 2007 the year to indulge and pamper yourself to the healthy (and fun!) pleasures of life.

New Year's Resolution #3: Relaxation

Spas:

Papillon the Spa (Papillon means butterfly in French) at the Westgate Lakes awakens your soul and revives your physique with their signature body massage wrap, facial treatments, airbrush tanning, and massage. Soothing music plays and fragrant elixirs, such as lavender, suffuse the spa creating your metamorphosis. Located in only Orlando and Park City, Utah, Papillon Spa offers a luxurious experience for the whole family including salon services such as cutting and styling for children. Signature facials and massages are offered for women and men accompanied with a sauna whirlpool and steam room. Therapeutic body treatments you can't find anywhere else include the Green Coffee Cellulite Wrap and the Ginger, Mango, and Lemon Sugar Scrub. If your New Year's Resolution is to quit smoking or lose weight, Papillon Spa's unique hypnosis service can help you achieve your goal and cleanse your emotional state of mind. Complimentary treats such as teas and fruits add to the distinctiveness of this fantastic getaway.

Pamper yourself to a day of bliss at the Mandara Spa at the Portofino Bay Hotel, a serene and sensuous place to renew your spirit and energize your soul. With several services to choose from including, but not limited to, a four-hands massage (with two therapists massaging you simultaneously), saunas for men and women, hydra peel facials and waxing, cellulite reduction, tooth whitening, microdermabrasion, hair services, manicures and pedicures, and much more! Other distinctively exhilarating body treatments and elixirs are Musclease and Cellutox Seaweed Wraps, Balinese Massage, and Javanese Lulur, a scrupulous body cleanser compromised of turmeric, fenugreek, red rice, ylang ylang, and jasmine cempak for a smooth and silky complexion and eternal youth. If you're between the ages of 13-17, Mandara Spa offers a special service just for you called YCARE consisting of a twenty-five minute back massage, acne facials and more for the stressful and hectic teen.

Golf:

The Portofino Bay Hotel at the Universal Orlando Resort offers its guests an exclusive program called Golf Universal Orlando, located just minutes away from the resort. Golf Universal Orlando is compromised of Metrowest Golf Club, Mystic Dunes Golf Club, Panther Lake and Crooked Cat located at the Orange County National Golf Center; each course offers complimentary rental golf clubs and balls with lunch and refreshments.

Orlando is home to golf champion, Tiger Woods, and harbors amazing golf courses. Falcon's Fire Golf Club is an award-winning golf course, winning first place as the top North American golf tournament facility, including the Apex Award in 1999. This golf course is the aesthetic visual seen from an airplane when arriving in Orlando. If your New Year's Resolution is to learn or improve in golf, join the Golf School and Practice Facility for individualized golf lessons. Another golf course is Southern Dunes, an award-winning golf and country club, with exquisite southern cuisine and private golf lessons at the Kevin Woodard Golf Academy.

New Year's Resolution #2: Exercise

Accomplish this New Year's Resolution while on vacation in Central Florida at a resort with avant-garde exercise facilities.

Portofino Bay Hotel at the Universal Orlando Resort is a lush dreamland composed of Italian architecture, with music and an aura to match. What is so particular and exceptional about this Resort is how it elegantly intertwines New Year's Resolution #3 - Relaxation with Exercise and Fun!

The fitness facility at the Mandara Spa is a mini facility for resort guests with a sufficient amount of equipment to get in shape and accomplish New Year's Resolution #2 - Exercise. With treadmills, elliptical cross trainers, bicycles and stair climbers with TV monitors, yoga mats, a weight area with dumbbells, thirteen weight machines, and a health bar. Admission to the facility is $12 a day, however it is complimentary after any spa service. Choose from three pool services at the resort - beach pool, villa pool, or hillside pool. The beach pool is a family-oriented pool in a sandy setting, adjacent a children's pool and two Jacuzzis. The villa pool includes sixteen Cabanas, while the hillside pool is more secluded for a quiet, serene relaxation.

Sheraton Vistana Resort in Lake Beuna Vista is a beautiful haven for exercising. Aside from a luxurious fitness facility, a heated indoor pool and outdoor pool, and tennis court. The fitness facility offers personal training to help you meet your fitness goals, as well as a massage therapist.

Do you feel that your workload is too hectic to fulfill your fitness goals? The Papillon the Spa at the Westgate Lakes Resort is open twenty-fours hours a day so you can create your own workout schedule.

New Year's Resolution #1: Have Fun

You might wonder why 'have fun' is considered a legitimate, even top, New Year's Resolution. The truth is that having fun is essential to your health, your soul, and your heart. Central Florida provides the best outlet to relive your childhood through excitement, entertainment, and games. Such a lighthearted New Year's Resolution would balance the more serious goals in your list and make it easier to reach them through a more harmonious lifestyle. In other words: you are never too old to ride a roller coaster.

Begin 2007 with fresh Cypress Gardens concerts. Musical concerts dates throughout January are as follows:

Bobby Goldsboro (guitarist) on 01/06/2007
Charlie Pride (country music artist) on 01/13/2007
Bobby Vinton (classical rock-and-roll artist) on 01/20/2007
Trace Adkins (country music artist) on 01/27/2007

Finally, don't miss out on forty-one of Cypress Gardens rides and roller coasters. Most notably, the Garden Gondolas, a whirligig balloon ride which lifts you up thirty-five feet high for a magical experience. Fulfill your relaxation resolution wit the Cypress Cove Ferry and enjoy a relaxing boat ride through Lake Eloise. No matter what you choose to do at Cypress Gardens you can achieve your top three New Year's Resolutions - relaxation, exercise, and, of course, fun. Unlike other theme parks, Cypress Gardens park admission is free so you can visit as frequently as you want.

Islands of Adventure at Universal CityWalk provides the most grandeur, fastest rides for the ultimate adventure in one of the most happiest, exciting places in the world. Dueling Dragons is a new roller coaster ride and the world's first duel roller coaster with an inverted flair which makes for a wild and exciting ride you can't experience elsewhere. Universal CityWalk is a fun hangout for dining and shopping, or watching shows and concerts.

Blizzard Beach in Walt Disney World is especially fun in the winter! The exhilaration of the slushy slides with blankets of snow make for a fun escape to the Arctic from the norms of the real world. One of the world's largest raft rides is located at Blizzard Beach with twelve hundred feet of water and overwhelming waterfalls, making for an ultimate adventure. The best part of all is this activity combines fun with exercise and relaxation -- the other top New Year's Resolutions!

Central Florida has a niche for combining relaxing, therapeutic activities, such as going to the spa, with exercise and fun. Orlando's has a plethora of theme parks, many of which offer the sports and recreation necessary to cleanse your soul and rejuvenate your spirit. Create a new you this 2007 by making your New Year's Resolutions come true in Central Florida.