Being pampered was a luxury once reserved for kings, whose servants performed hot-diamond massages and smoothed out wrinkles with injections of liquid gold. Enjoy the democratization of relaxation with today's Groupon to Hiatus Spa + Retreat. For $59, you get your choice of one of the following spa services: a Hiatus massage (a $100 value); a Hiatus facial (a $100 value); a Hiatus body polish (an $85 value); a Hiatus rosemary-mint wrap (a $100 value); or a Hiatus mani-pedi retreat (a $100 value). This Groupon also includes 30% off any add-ons the day of service.

Each stress-melting service comes complete with a foot soak, warm aromatic towels, and a hand-and-foot massage. No matter which service you choose, you'll leave with a 15 ml bottle of Aveda PureFume (a $20 value) in a personalized aroma created specially for you. If you sign up for a one-year membership to the H-Circle—the spa's membership program—on the day of your service, your initiation fee ($39 normally) is waived. As an H-Circle member, your monthly payment of $59 for a platinum membership or $69 for a gold membership entitles you to discounts on all services, with one core service each month included in your monthly fee.

Garnering numerous awards, including Best Day Spa from CityVoter, Hiatus Spa + Retreat's skilled harmony harbingers enhance images while exhilarating spirits in a bounty of soothing spa services. The 50-minute Hiatus massage combines anxiety-ousting Swedish techniques with invigorating Aveda aromatherapy to leave the senses more contented than after a tickle fight with a man-size gardenia. Aestheticians will analyze skin imbalances before beginning the 50-minute Hiatus facial, which fuses fragrant steam, lymphatic massage, and acupressure with an impurity-purging facial process to leave faces glowing.

Free bodies of dull skin and tricky sleeping-bag zippers with the Hiatus body polish, in which skin is scrubbed with aromatic Dead Sea salts and essential oils in a 40-minute cleansing session. Or choose the 50-minute rosemary-mint wrap, which exfoliates, softens, and cloaks physiques in essences of rosemary and peppermint while scalps and feet undergo a massage. For delighted digits, the 80-minute mani-pedi Retreat massages pads, exfoliates cuticles, and cleanses hands and feet as extremity owners savor Aveda aromatherapy in a zero-gravity chair. Nails then receive an alluring polish with SpaRitual natural nailcare products.