Laguna Beach Montage Resort: Surrender Spa Package for Men

The ultra-luxury beach resort of Montage is located on a coastal bluff in the arts community of Laguna Beach, Southern California. This retreat has it all, including a celebrated spa with breathtaking indoor/outdoor oceanfront facilities, complete with floor-to-ceiling windows showcasing the gorgeous vistas. As featured in the Winter issue of Outside Traveler,

For more than three years now, the Montage has gone out of its way to lure men into these algae wraps and fluffy robes. They've even created a male-specific multi-day spa program appropriately titled Surrender. News to me and about 67 percent of my buddies: Apparently a third of Montage's spa customers these days are men.

The Gentlemen's Surrender Retreat is an individually customized package that begins with a pre-arrival phone consultation with your personal Surrender therapist and fitness trainer. With this full-day (or multi-day) immersion, the Retreat Menu features wine-and-cheese tastings along with the lavish body treatments, as well as cigar-and-cognac sessions, and consultations like The Art of Shaving.

We're stressed, spa directors like Raistrick tell us. We work too hard, we play too hard. We eat chili cheese fries with abandon. And, yes-- we're men. But if we can get past the robe fitting, the whale song, the rose-hip-and-cucumber water, a spa can undo a lot of off-road wear.