Invited lunch guest at World Famous SPA.
June 25th, 2009 categories: San Diego Real Estate
This past week provided me a very special and rare experience of being an invited lunch guest by a patron of the Golden Door, The World famous Health Spa. From the moment the front gate opened, you feel the exclusive nature of this amazing luxury spa. Set on over several hundreds acres of the most magnificent grounds, one is easily taken in by its sheer beauty and tranquility.
A family friend who frequents the spa with annual regularity, invited me to join her and her two daughters for a specially prepared lunch at the coy pond. The stylings at this spa opened since 1958 are of the Japanese Honjin inns famous in Japan. And as far as I could tell, from style of the architecture to the sheer beauty of the surroundings, that I just as well could have been in Japan.
Tucked away in an area north of Escondido, the location of this exclusive spa would be missed unless you knew exactly how to get to to it. There are no signs and if you have to ask, you probably wouldn’t be on the list for visiting.
I brought my camera to take some pictures but as you see there are no pictures here. Out of my respect for it’s exclusive nature, nothing I could take pictures of could even come close to capturing what I was taking in using all of my senses. Pictures even with my written description could never do justice to what I was experiencingh. The Golden Door has a web site and they even have a picture gallery but I can tell you from my own eyes, the pictures they include don’t even come close to the splendor and tranquility of the magnificent surroundings. The entire experience can not be expressed in pictures anyway. The total of all your senses would be needed to fully appreciate.
The luncheon was served by the coy pond in a setting that was almost hypnotic in its calming beauty. The attention to details as well as the lunch itself was unlike anything I have experienced. I was gifted the while there the Golden Door Cookbook signed by the world famous executive chef, Michael Stroot. It contains over 200 recipes of what the patrons of the this most exclusive spa experience 3 times a day while there are a guest.
My impressions of this most tranquil spa was that of a trespasser, wondering if my mind would make any disturbing noise as took it all in through my senses. A magnificent place and I hope I am invited again and again as my family friend makes her annual pilgrimage for a week of de-stressing and pampering at this most celebrated spa.
