HOTEL EL SANTUARIO RESORT AND SPA
A magic and exclusive place with 64 suites, located in Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico.

Leave behind the anxiety, the noise and the rush. Here, at the northeast of Valle de Bravo’s dam, in the Estado de México, between the lake and the sky, at just fifteen kilometers from one of the most weekend visited tourist’s destinations, lays El Santuario Resort and Spa.

Located on a millennial quartz mountain that has being blessed by Dalai Lama and a group of Tibetan monks, El Santuario Resort and Spa offers several options to those looking to benefit from the energy of the land where it rises and to regain their place among the nature with all respect and harmony, without forgetting the exclusivity, elegancy and luxury.

El Santuario Resort and Spa includes a hotel with 64 suites, one of the biggest and most luxurious Spas in Latin America, golf club, marina with a sailing club, equine club, residential section and a conventions center, everything among a spiritual oasis at the top of the mountain, with its perfect weather. At the resort they normally have eight grades centigrade more than in the rest of Valle de Bravo, fact that reduce the humidity and helps the local vegetation, which is diverse and rich in the different kinds of trees, plants and flowers, to establish itself as a spiritual gift.

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Quartz is a legacy from mother earth and it is known in must cultures as a protective talisman and healing tool, as it equilibrates inner energies that are unbalanced and even may propitiate harmonic relaxation. Over a quartz mountain, and at the top, raises grandly the sixty four luxury suites and installations that constitute El Santuario Resort and Spa at Valle de Bravo, Estado de México.

Every room of this spacious, rustic and exclusive hotel is identified with an hexagram, carved on each door, from the I Ching or the book of changes, which shows the back of a human figure that invite guests to leave outside everything that rests behind and to get into a new space and to prepare to enjoy and to relax. For example relaxing in your own pool, where you may watch water’s greatness and its visual union with the sky, or just relax on the couch or on the bed, among the blanket of goose feathers and the Egyptian cotton sheets that offer a great experience of sleep and rest.

As the rooms at El Santuario Resort and Spa are designed for people who wish to escape from daily life, they have all the amenities needed to ensure the highest comfort. Decorated in Mexican style, using natural materials and elements from the region, the rooms have fine aromatherapy features, floors with accentuations in reflexology, a fountain beside the bed to help to relax, as well as designer furniture, baked glass washbasin, hairdryer and the careful, discreet and personalized service that allows a delightful stay.

As World Leading EcoResort, El Santuario Resort and Spa promotes the rationalized use of towels and sheets, non smoking rooms, as well as the recycling of the residual water, which is used for irrigation.

El Santuario Resort and Spa has 64 suites, each with private swimming pool with the water at room temperature: There are one Presidential Suite, two Master Suites and 61 Junior Suites; where four of them are exclusively for guests with special needs. Comfort, luxury and good taste are the basic characteristics of the 64 spacious suites that constitute El Santuario Resort and Spa.

Presidential Suite: Located in an area apart from the other rooms, the Presidential Suite guarantees peace, comfort and absolute privacy and anonymity to the guests. The suite has two independent spacious bedrooms separated by a common living room and a resting area that permit communication among them. One bedroom has a King size bed and the other two Queen size beds. The water in the inside pool, that both bedrooms share, is always at room temperature. Each bedroom has a full luxuriously decorated bathroom with double shower, luxury bath amenities and floors with accentuations in reflexology. Complementing the suite there is a fully equipped kitchen, a dining room and a luxurious fireplace, for cold nights when the fire’s heat will increase the sensations of comfort and welfare.

Master Suite: The two Master Suites at El Santuario Resort and Spa are located in a special zone, near to the Presidential Suite and isolated from the rest of the rooms. They have a King size bed, and a little pool with the water at room temperature, a comfortable couch, full bathroom with double shower and floor with accentuations in reflexology, living room, a luxurious fireplace and minibar, as well as all the quality amenities and services offered at this paradise located on the quartz mountain that transmits peace and harmony at every moment of your stay.

Junior Suite: Every junior Suite has an inside pool with the water at room temperature, a comfortable couch, a work table with an ergonomic chair designed and manufactured exclusively for El Santuario Resort and Spa, a full bathroom with double shower and floors with accentuations in reflexology and minibar. Thirty three of these rooms have a King size bed, six offer two separated matrimonial beds and twenty one have a Queen size bed.

All suites are equipped with:

• Artisan aromatic soaps
• Bulgari bath amenities
• Electronic locks
• Minibar-Refrigerator
• Private pool with water at room temperature
• Telephones with national and international long distance services
• Electronic safe boxes
• Television with satellite system

Exclusive family accommodation: At the balcony zone, that has also a privileged view of the lake and the valley, there are rooms assigned to guarantee the comfort of families that have decided to share with their younger children the mountain experience of healing, peace and energy. Children less than twelve years old stay at no extra cost in the same room than their parents, while for the little ones up to four years old it is possible to install, according to availability, a crib. This service must be requested at the moment of reservation. If there is no availability for a family at the balcony zone, the hotel can offer a complementary sofa-bed in any Junior Suite.

Accommodations for the handicapped: El Santuario Resort and Spa offers four Junior Suites to welcome with the right care and needed social responsibility disabled people, to whom the hotel facilitates the room access by using ramps.

RESTAURANTS:
La Vista Restaurant: Flavors and sensations join in a wide variety of international dishes with a little traditional touch. The fruits of Mother Earth and the water, passing or not through fire and that return to meet us with the natural elements, as well as foods of animal origins, should be mixed in a healthy and wisely way in order to achieve harmony within the body, the mind and the spirit. However, we should not sacrifice the joy of flavors and textures that give the host the pleasure to spoil and to comfort its guests. Also, we can not forget the wine, or the ambiance, the music, the company and in El Santuario Resort and Spa’s case the landscape; since drifting into the night as seen from La Vista Restaurant is simply magnificent.

At La Vista Restaurant, the contemplation of the waters of the lake, the sublime music and the hanging fireplace contribute to create an outstanding ambiance of relaxation that stimulates the consumption of a meal in a quiet, calm and relaxed fashion, so rare nowadays in this agitated world of fast food.

For romantic couples, La Vista Restaurant has always available a table illuminated by candles beside the fireplace.

La Vista Restaurant also offers room service.

The restaurant has an extensive variety of wines from different parts of the world. Mexican wines, Chileans, Argentineans, French, German, Spanish, vouch for a wine cellar that changes constantly, according to the season.

SPA Menu: For guests enjoying a SPA package and demand special attention to the preparation of their food, the hotel offers a SPA menu, paying attention to intake levels of fat and cholesterol.

GUEST SERVICES:
The hotel offers the following services:

• Ecologic reserve
• Halls for social events
• Heliport
• Internet
• Outdoor events area
• Residential area
• Services of aerial transportation

Besides this, the hotel has the following spaces designed for the enjoyment and relaxation of the guests:

Swan Plaza: From the center of the plaza and the fountain, a swan gives the welcome to El Santuario Resort and Spat and offers to be the spiritual guide. This symbol represents the birth of the sun after the agony of the night, which leaves behind the winter and brings the spring. The swan stands for being reborn again, since in the oldest mythologies it drags the sun’s boat until dawn. The twins Dioscuri, Castor y Pólux, born from the union of a swan and Leda; one represents the divinity, the other the humanity. This way, the swan at the plaza, welcomes and sends-off the guests and is the guide that reminds them during their stay that is possible to join the mortal body and the transcendental soul.

Mirror of Water: A mirror reflects the soul of those who look into it, since it gives back the energy that is radiated on its surface. The Mirror of Water constitutes the bridge between the physical world and the spirit, or, it opens a door towards other worlds and universes. It represents the other half of one self. The mirror does not return to the world the things as they are, but as a gamma of opposites: One does not see one self in the mirror but an opposite and complementary being. When the mirror is made of water the deepest vision of the things can be evoked.

Buddha’s Space: This space it is El Santuario Resort and Spa’s heart, a space reserved for meditation, the personal and inner withdrawal and the spiritual search. In this space all the energy of the mountain comes together and it becomes present in who goes in. The stained glass window was made by the painter, sculptor and Italian teacher of light, Narcissus Quagliata, creator of the dome of the Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, at Rome for the year 2000 celebrations. When entering Buddha’s Space, it is worth to have in mind the four noble truths on which the Buddhist doctrine is based: Suffering exists; it has an origin expressed through fear, uncertainty and anguish. The origin of suffering is moreover the ignorance that makes us to hope for things that we can never get from objects, people and situations. To clarify the ignorance leads us to stop the suffering. There are methods and means to achieve this and they are divided in three main methods: Ethics, concentration and development of wisdom.

Pool: The water has an immense symbolism. In the sermon of Assapuram, Buddha could observe the mountain’s lake, whose transparent waters allow observing the sand, the shells, the snails and the fish, like the path that leads to redemption. The water is the universal matrix, the intrauterine state, the place where life emanates and from where we all come, and the element to which we all dream to return. Water is renewal and purification, but also a symbol of the overflowed emotions.

The Tunnel of the Serpent: The serpent is a meeting point with earth’s depths, where the energy of Gaya is generated. In El Santuario Resort and Spa, the Tunnel of the Serpent represents for the visitor the limit of the material and the entrance to the spiritual world. Those who walk through it will consider crossing the threshold between the terrestrial and the transcendental world, and will understand when leaving the mountain why the serpent is the symbol of reincarnation: It changes of skin like the water changes of body.

Suites Waterfall: The hexagrams of the sacred Chinese book I Ching are groups of six lines divided or complete that symbolizes archetypal qualities and produce 64 possible exchanges, each one with a different meaning. The 64 rooms of El Santuario Resort and Spa are identified with one of these hexagrams and are arranged like a waterfall, suggesting to the guests to ascend and descend by the transmutation that proposes the door to their inner self and that they will open during their stay.

Common room of rest and relaxation: It is possible to be on the terrace or to remain inside to experience a pleasant moment, while talking, playing billiards at some of the available tables, or simply leaving the body to rest and position in one of the chairs, in order to look towards the lake and to watch it without any haste, perhaps while you are waiting for somebody.

AERIAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES:
This it is one more of the Premium Class Services that El Santuario Resort and Spa offers to its guests. To be able to arrive to the mountain by air, guarantees total discretion with distinguished visitors and offers at the same time, the security of being able to be transferred to some nearby city in case of for example a medical emergency.

El Santuario Resort and Spa has three heliports and a capacity to transfer up to eight people on the same flight. In order to use this service, it is necessary to guarantee the reservation with a credit card and to request it one hour before directly at El Santuario Resort and Spa, and then the necessary coordinates will be provided. In case of a nocturnal medical emergency, the response time will be subject to the availability of the service’s supplier.

BUSINESS SERVICES:
El Santuario Resort and Spa has a business center that integrates all the technological services and facilities for meetings and conventions.

ACTIVITIES:

• Equine club
• Golf field, Par 27
• Marina and sailing club
• Meditation and relaxation zones that include the Dalai Lama peace zone
• SPA
• Swimming pool
• Tennis court

SPA:
The Salus per Aqua or SPA at El Santuario Resort and Spa is a place that offers health therapies by means of water, and it is one of the biggest and most exclusive of its kind in Latin America. This is the most suitable place to receive the benefits of the power that flows from its location; a place dedicated to find the balance and the reconciliation between the physical welfare, health and beauty.

The SPA at El Santuario Resort and Spa is located at the top of the mountain that emerged impelled by the earth core millions of years ago and was blessed by Tenzin Gyatzo, the fourteenth Dalai Lama and a group of Tibetan monks. In its comfortable and cozy spaces, silence and energy are combined to prepare the body and strengthen it to defend itself from the external factors that wait back on the normal daily life.

Those who receive some or several treatments at the SPA in El Santuario Resort and Spa get in touch with natural elements such as water, mud and stones; elements that help to mobilize energies, renew the organism and get a whole wealth and sensation of relaxation by means of a sensitive meeting with the inner peace, the natural care of the body and the mind, and the respect for the environment.

Over 63 treatments developed for body and skin, meditation and yoga spaces, as well as exclusive spa cuisine, are designed to ease physical and spiritual burdens, to help the mind to break free from turmoil and inner fights.

In the SPA at El Santuario Resort and Spa words such as stress, rush, anxiety, turmoil and individuality, are meaningless and are substituted by sensibility, relaxation, silence, joy, inner self encounters; all of this as part of an integral and exclusive renewal experience.

The SPA also offers:

• Aerobic exercises
• Beauty parlor
• Beauty treatment called “Yenecamú,” and that is given in the middle of the lake, over a pontoon boat. It includes a body exfoliation, tequila/mezcal body wrap and a deep Swedish massage. Unfortunately, they can not offer it during the whole year, because during the rainy season is better to take refuge at the top of the mountain, within the SPA installations
• Coffee SPA, concept that offers among its new features the opportunity to enjoy aromatherapy cocktails
• Fifteen cabins for treatments, including one with chimney for couples
• Floatation chamber
• Gym
• Meditation room
• Oxygen bar
• Pilates
• Tai-Chi
• Yoga

Spiritual Space:
Each corner at El Santuario Resort and Spa can be favorable for any spiritual exercise, due to its energy and power blessed by the Dalai Lama and Tibetan monks that prayed for this mountain to forgive men for the damages caused during centuries, The hotel have spaces dedicated and arranged specially to facilitate an exam of the conscience and the meditation, to contemplate, to pray and to find the tangential place between the earth and the sky, concentrating all the energy in an inner journey and withdrawal, to achieve a reconciliation with the world, the divine and the nature, while exploring itself and healing the soul to set it free of the material restrains.

El Santuario Resort and Spa Golf Club:
You must experience it in order to see that this is more than a golf club, taking in the sensation that the game takes place at a magic site, the most suitable for enjoyment and concentration.

The golf course is an exclusive executive project, designed by Marceline Moreno, and it fulfills the needs of the most demanding golfers, giving them the possibility to practice this sport in a sublime and delectable environment as only El Santuario Resort and Spa can offer.

Located near by the Lake at Valle de Bravo, the field is surrounded by the lush nature of the region, made up of e.g. oaks, orchids, ashes, pines and ahiles among other species, where the weather is warm most of year and the wind blows from west to east.

The golf field has an extension of 26,999 m2, is par 27 and has nine holes par three. It has two artificial lakes that occupy 10 per cent of the land; it is lightly undulated with partially plain greens located on grounds sized 300 m2 in average, the distance between the holes varies between 73 and 137 meters, while the fairways of grass Kykuyo and Greens feature the Penn Cross Bent variety.

To the members of the Golf Club, El Santuario Resort and Spa offers installations and services of first class quality, as practice Tee, putting Green, practice net, cafeteria, golf classes and clinics.

El Santuario Resort and Spa Equine Club:
Every-day time constraints and hurried lifestyles deprive human beings closeness to nature by means of getting in touch with animals, for example, the primitive relation among the horse and the rider. El Santuario Resort and Spa has an equine club for those who have decide to make space in their lives and long to cultivate their equestrian needs.

El Santuario Resort and Spa Marina and Sailing Club:
The 25 meter long swimming pool, where the view is endless, and the two outdoor Jacuzzis are just the beginning. The Marina and Sailing Club has a palapa with bar and restaurant services, dining area, a couple of cozy rooms with comfortable couches that transport to the infinite the guests that rest on them while gazing at the endless peace of the water.

In addition, there are two dressing areas, each one with showers, Jacuzzi, steam bath, lockers, laundry room and towel zone, as well as two warehouses for all sailing accessories and a delightful covered terrace for children games.

The Marina and Sailing Club has among the facilities, a covered area and boat posts at an extraordinary dock without comparison in Valle de Bravo, an entrance to the paradise in the mountain.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS:
Weddings:
For couples seeking a dream celebration on their wedding day, El Santuario Resort and Spa has all the necessary to make that the guests remember to have attended to a perfect wedding, organized in paradise.

The hotel has large halls with a magnificent view of the lake and can accommodate up to 800 guests. The expert team of the hotel assures all the necessary elements, to guarantee the perfect timing of each one of the programmed activities and to take care of the smallest detail, everything done with the most careful attention and the matchless combination of elegance, finesse and the excellence characteristic of El Santuario Resort and Spa.

Furthermore, if you are thinking about something more original, sophisticated and romantic, the hotel can offer the possibility to celebrate your civil wedding on board the pontoons boat, sailing over the splendor of the Lake of Valle de Bravo.

The hotel is sure that all your guests will want to stay at El Santuario Resort and Spa, therefore, the hotel grants special rates for participants at each event.

Dinners and intimate events:
There is not an impossible fantasy in the serenity of the paradise on the mountain. There is for example the possibility to organize customized events lighted with torches, in some of the spaces available where almost any desire can be fulfilled.

Groups and conventions:
It is proven that the energy from the mountain on which El Santuario Resort and Spa is built promotes the achievement of high levels of concentration on people, and actually it can place completely out of the daily context, rush driven conducts and other behaviors inflicted to the human being by modern life.

At El Santuario Resort and Spa, the participants in seminars, executive meetings and conventions will find the optimal situation and suitable environment to tackle issues. In order to fulfill this, the hotel provides services and facilities to achieve and maintain the best improvement level.

Services offered to conferences and seminars:
Besides of the services and facilities given at business center, there are analogous faxes and conference enabled phones available at every hall, as well as plasma screens, audio and video services, monitors, projectors and every supply needed to do excellent presentations.

At La Vista restaurant they have an extensive collection of menus designed specially for social and business events. Also, they offer coffee breaks for work sessions, meetings and conferences, in addition to the careful logistic and the neat attention needed to ensure a successful event.

Social events:
To celebrate the most outstanding events of life surrounded by most important people, is sharing with them the remarkable experience of El Santuario Resort and Spa.

El Santuario Resort and Spa has spaces intended to share the experience of being on the mountain and seize the energy, the strength and balance that flows from it, to organize social events that celebrate life and share guests happiness or to organize executive meetings where the attendants concentration guarantee the success.

Three are halls suitable to welcome any event from the small and private to grand gatherings. Hall Feng, Hall Kuan and Hall Ken are prepared to fulfill any need or even the most delicate whim. Besides there is the Mirror of Water zone, perfect to host even the most exclusive wedding.

The hotel offers those who want to arrange baptisms, sweet sixteen parties, proms and weddings the best services, the highest quality of service, the qualified experience and the most spectacular facilities in order to make of each event an unforgettable one.

LOCATION:
El Santuario Resort and Spa is located two and a half hours from Mexico City and one hour from Toluca, on the route Colorines in the kilometer 4.5, in San Gaspar, Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico. The hotel is at 15 minutes from the center in Valle de Bravo where you can enjoy the details of the architectural colonial style reflected on its churches of Santa Maria and San Francisco de Assisi and to savor the different styles that a “Magic Town” has to offer.

There are several ways to arrive, but the more used path is still the Federal Road number 134 (Toluca – Ciudad Altamirano) and take the deviation of the State Road that brings you to the south of Valle de Bravo.
 

For prices, reservations, availability and bookings, please contact us at: visit@luxuriousmexico.com