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The Peninsula's most design-led boutique spa, small, precise, and the natural pairing with a Jackalope stay or a Doot Doot Doot dinner.
Known for Subtle Energies Botanical TreatmentsWillow & Black Stone MassageJackalope Hotel Vineyard SpaDesign-Forward Treatment Rooms
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Why we’d goNot a hot-springs circuit, not a day-spa chain, a tight, design-forward boutique spa where the architecture and the treatments are working at the same level.
Spa by Jackalope is not trying to compete on scale. It is a tight, design-forward boutique spa inside the Jackalope Hotel vineyard, built to serve hotel guests and day visitors with treatments that match the broader Jackalope editorial: considered, unhurried, and quietly uncompromising.
The treatment rooms are dark, sculptural, and use Subtle Energies' Australian-made botanical range. The therapist roster is small and well-trained. Signature treatments include the Willow & Black Stone massage and bespoke facial work. There is no big wet-area circuit here, this is not a hot-springs-style complex. The value is in the depth of the one-on-one treatment, not in hours spent walking between pools.
The right pairing is obvious: book a spa treatment, stay the night at Jackalope, and have dinner at Doot Doot Doot. That is one of the most complete wellness-to-dining-to-stay weekends the Peninsula offers, and nothing else on the Peninsula delivers that exact combination at that level of design coherence.
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Book the earliest treatment session and stay the night, Spa by Jackalope is designed as an integrated day, not a standalone appointment.
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