The world’s first day-spa owner invited clients to “experience the healing powers of this here tar pit,” which was bad news for the clientele but invaluable for modern-day archaeologists. Preserve well-being without becoming permanently preserved with today’s Groupon: for $199, you get a three-hour couples spa package at Alera Salon & Spa in Cranberry Township (a $440 value). The package includes:

• Two Swedish massages
• Two custom facials
• Two spa pedicures<p>

Alera Salon & Spa’s professional pamperers send lucky couples on an odyssey of romantic relaxation during three-hour spa packages. The spa welcomes tired patrons into private treatment rooms for a full hour of gentle Swedish massages, uniting couples with gliding strokes, gentle tissue manipulation, and a slurring, sleepy recitation of wedding vows. The secluded pedicure station invites visitors into cushy chairs and feet into bubbling tubs of water for a rapturous coddling of toes and footpads. In addition to wrapping backs and feet in soothing cocoons of tranquility, Alera Salon & Spa refreshes and beautifies visages with custom facials designed to reduce hyperpigmentation, boost blood flow and collagen production, and disable frown muscles.