Booking your body double a day at a tranquil spa creates a soundproof alibi for days spent stealing office supplies from the National Guard. Make your stand-in stand out with today’s Groupon: for $15, you get a day pass at Spa World (a $35 value) in Centreville, VA.

The sprawling Spa World is based on a jimjilbang, a Korean bathhouse and sauna that contains far more than your average Western sanitarium. With today's deal, your day pass will give you a full 24 hours of access to this polished palace of pulchritude stuffed full of spa amenities. In the grand and steamy Korean tradition, there are numerous communal facilities for corporeal detoxification, including seven separate poultice rooms that employ rejuvenating elements drawn from Mother Earth's natural petticoats, such as hot red clay, germanium, heated charcoal, and freshly baked brownies. A sauna and bade pool provide numerous jets and showers for a full-body bath experience (nudity is required to keep the pool free of clothing-based contaminants). Though not included in today's deal, extra services, such as deep-tissue massages with aroma oil therapy ($120/60 minutes) and body scrubs ($50/30-40 minutes), can be purchased to get broken bodies soothed to the max by hands attached to trained massage therapists.

Numerous guests make beauty-based pilgrimages to Spa World from all across the region in order to partake in its rejuvenating services. Separate men's and women's resting rooms provide space for visitors to sleep if they want their holiday to last overnight, and a juice bar and restaurant provide dumplings and other Korean cuisine to sustain nutrition levels throughout the dalliance. Eastern decorative touches and warm lighting soften the atmosphere to provide a full sensorium of escape from the day-to-day doldrums of work, Legos, domestic life, and raptor wrangling.

Reviews

Spa World has been featured in The Washington Post, Express Night Out, and more than 125 Yelpers give it a 4.5-star average:

• LOVE. THIS. PLACE. – Daisy D., Yelp, 1/2/11
• You cannot know what relaxation is until you have visited spa world. – Ryan L., Yelp, 12/8/10