Take a Photo Tour of Praia D'El Rey Marriott Golf & Beach Resort in the 13th Century village of Obidos, Portugal

Take a Photo Tour of the Miramonte Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, Palm Springs, CA

Spa Cuisine Spotlight:  A grilled sandwich showcasing your summer tomatoes, courtesy of Lake Austin Spa

The Stowe Mountain Lodge & Spa in Vermont offers two private cooking classes for groups up to eight guests, taught by Chef Sean Buchanan, one of the state's foremost advocates of the local farm movement.  Available year-round from Sunday through Thursday.

SpaIndex.Com is pleased to offer discounted listing rates for our members who list multiple properties on our popular spa directory.  Our Group Rates are:

• Group Rates are not available to Basic or Bronze Level (text only) day spa listings, as those listings are already discounted and priced well below market rates. 

• Group Rates are available to all Silver, Gold and Platinum listings, for both Day Spas and Stay Spas.

• For groups with multiple properties, listings appear on SpaIndex.com for each location in the group, even if the listing is replicated.  In other words, you may elect to have ONE listing describe a group of properties with  6 different locations, but the listing will be published once for each location under the appropriate city/state headings.

• Members submitting an application for a listing for ONE property, but requesting we link to a website displaying or advertising multiple properties, will be treated as a group with multiple locations and invoiced accordingly (one rate per location/property).  In other words, a member cannot request one paid listing for Spa Resort One, which benefits related or additional properties (Spa Resort Two, Spa Resort Three, etc).  Each property or location in the group or advertised on the member's website  must be a qualifying spa property, and, a listed member of the group. 

• The member has the option to 1) have a separate listing for each property and pay for each listing accordingly, or 2) have one listing for the group, published once under each appropriate city/state heading.

• Properties may be submitted at any time throughout the calendar year, however, all properties belonging to a group must renew as a group in either:

  • January of each calendar year

  • July of each calendar year

• Properties submitted to a qualifying group during mid-year / mid listing-period, will be invoiced on a pro-rata basis so as to expire and renew with the remainder of the group.

• Group Renewal Periods typically commence on January 1 or July 1, in our discretion, and pro-rata invoices are based on those renewal dates (e.g., a property submitted in March will likely be invoiced for the shortened year, through December period, and renew on January 1.  A property submitted in August, will likely be invoiced for the August through June period, and renew on July 1).

• In the case of a property insertion which moves a Group from one discount rate to another discount rate (e.g., from 10% to 15%), the new / higher Applicable Group Rate is applied to the qualifying property, but not applied retroactively to properties already listed.  The new Applicable Group Rate will be applied when all properties renew as a group (e.g., when a 6th property is added, it is discounted by 10%.  However, the first five properties do not qualify for that higher group rate discount until all 6 properties are renewed as a Group).

• Group Invoices must be directed to one (1) company, representative, or designated agent.

• GROUP RATE DISCOUNTS REQUIRE PROMPT PAYMENT.  Group Rate Invoices are due upon receipt, net 15 days.  If a Group Rate Invoice is past due by thirty (30) days or more, the Group Rate Discount is waived and the full listing fee based on currently published rates is immediately due and payable.

CLICK THROUGH, REPORTING, PERFORMANCE

• Regarding click through statistics, impressions and traffic reports, we do track our most popular pages, search terms, unique visitors, and page views, we do so for our internal use.  
  • We do not track individual clicks or link popularity on your behalf.  We prefer to keep our listings competitively priced, by not diverting our budget to either the expense of sophisticated software to track individual listings (link popularity), or, the overhead associated with paying our webmasters to generate and share reports with our more than 7,000 members. It would essentially require a full-time staff to keep up with that degree of reporting, and, the information is usually available to our members, often at no cost, from their own site's tools.
  • We will, however, gladly use a unique click-through code that our members provide to us, which enables our members to track inbound visitors from our site.  Many of our marketing clients provide us with encoded URLs which generate reports on the receiving end, and we are happy to use these links when requested to do so.
  • Site Statistic Reports are readily available to our members, on their own websites, through their own webmasters, and by adding free code readily available on the internet. 
  • Bear in mind, if a free "stat counter" is added to a website, most of the not terribly sophisticated free counters only track referrals inbound to the page where the code has been placed.  We frequently link to pages other than a home page (spa specials, for instance), so it may be wise to use a site-wide stat counter to track inbound referrals from us.
  • Here are a few free stat counter sites, none of which we personally endorse:
    • Statcounter.com
    • Extremetracking.com
    • OneStat.com
    • Freehitcounters.net
    • Cyber-counter.com
    • Freestats.com
    • Activemeter.com