The Le Scandinave spa near the famous Mont-Tremblant ski resort is a freestanding spa, unrelated to any hotel .
Its most soothing quality? It's inexpensive. You can partake of the baths for $43 weekdays, $46 weekends, or $35 on ladies' day Thursdays. That's a bargain among spas and among pastimes in Mont-Tremblant, the Whistler of the east, about 90 minutes northwest of Montreal.
At Le Scandinave, the watchwords are Silence and No Cell Phones. Once you don your bathing suit and robe, go outside. Choose a "hot" experience first -- two hot pools, a Norwegian steam room, a Finnish sauna. Spend not more than 10 minutes. Then quickly cool off, either in a cold pool of 59-degree water from the adjacent Diable River, by dousing yourself with a pull-handle shower of river water, or by plunging into the river itself.
After that, sit quietly in one of five rest houses, which have wooden chairs and soft mats.
After going through the sequence three or four times, you can either finish or wander in your robe upstairs for a bite to eat, sitting at a long trestle table surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows.
I was there earlier this month, just before the snowfall . Yet even without snow, the architecture and nature complemented each other in a languid combination of Finnish-Canadian styles -- red roofs, windows lined in green and yellow, dark brown wooden buildings, blue water, blue sky, bracing air.
The baths are good for increasing circulation and eliminating toxins, spa literature says. They are also extremely romantic -- I saw several couples there -- but also comfortable for groups of friends or weary solo travelers.
When you book your lodging with Tremblant VIP Lodging make sure to include a visit to the spa .
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