Sightseeing Travel Article...
Come Enjoy a Romantic Holiday in Leavenworth Washington
As featured in "The Entertainer", December 2008
Take a romantic journey this winter to an enchanting wonderland that is practically in your back yard and yet a world away from the typical holiday season in the Washington. It’s the Bavarian-style village of Leavenworth, Washington, and it’s a magical place during the holidays and winter.
The Icicle Village Resort is a full service resort offering a choice of hotel or condominium accommodations as well as a mini day spa, wellness retreats, dining, and activities center. If you’ve never taken a winter vacation in Leavenworth, you’re in for a treat. Here are just a few ways to make your visit special this time of year or in any season:
Relax together with a couples spa treatment at Therapeutic Touch Massage and Wellness located at the Icicle Village Resort. This mini day spa offers massage, body treatments, and esthetic services. www.icicleinn.com/spaservices.htm
Shop downtown Leavenworth and enjoy the new look with cobblestone sidewalks, benches, turn of the century street lights, railings, banners and landscaping. You’ll discover shops filled with unique gift items from Nutcrackers, beer steins and music boxes to lavish Christmas decorations, fine china, and one of a kind home furnishings. Enjoy specialty cheese, handmade soaps, candles and chocolates. Stroll through art galleries and photography studios. And then visit specialty stores for recreation supplies, kids toys, an outfit for your pooch or multi-chimed clock.
Tour the village on a horse drawn carriage ride from Leavenworth Carriage Company. For more information call (509-421-0679). Make reservations in
advance to take a romantic sleigh ride for two, offered by several local companies. Visit the web site www.leavenworth.org for a listing of sleigh-ride services.
Enjoy a romantic dinner together at a number of fine restaurants. At the Icicle Village Resort you’ll enjoy J. J. Hills Restaurant and Wine Bar or can order dinner through room service. Other romantic dining spots include Visconti’s Restorante Italiano, the Alley Café, Mountain Home Lodge (must be reserved the prior day). The Mountain Springs Lodge offers a romantic sleigh ride and dinner, and Pavz Café Bistro. www.jjhillsrestaurant.com, www.viscontis.com, www.thealleycafe.com, www.mthome.com, www.pavz.net.
Chocolate makes you feel loved…and Leavenworth offers more chocolate per capita than any other town in Washington! Schocolat (www.schocolat.com) offers fine handmade European style chocolates. There's also Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (509-548-6525) with free samples, the Fudge Hut (866-204-4438) with 35 varieties of delicious creamy fudge, Leavenworth Chocolate with a continuous chocolate fountain, Sweet Dreams imports Neuchatel fine Swiss chocolates, and there are even rumors of a singing chocolate store opening by December 08!
Icicle Village Resort Sweet Indulgence Romance Getaway
with either a Fantastic Wine Tour or Couples Massage
The Icicle Inn at the Icicle Village Resort is now offering two unique Sweet Indulgence Packages...
Experience an incredible King suite with a beautiful fireplace, a whirlpool bath with deluxe bath amenities, a balcony or patio, a CD player and video player, and a refrigerator and microwave.
Wine Tour: The packages include many gifts to take home to sweeten your indulgence: Champagne or choice of special beverage on arrival with memento etched glasses, a bouquet of a dozen Red Roses, Strawberries and Whipped Cream, Bath Amenities gift pack, Aromatherapy Candle for your room and Icicle Inn Stuffed Bear, an "Enchanting Evening" Board Game, locally made Rocky Mountain Chocolate Truffles and Applets and Cotlets Candies, and two plush Icicle Inn Resort Bathrobes (yours to take home), and late checkout.
Couples Massage: The two of you will join an incredible limousine wine tasting tour* to local wineries with Le Tours'. - Enjoy a (3 hour) tour of 3 or 4 of the best wineries Leavenworth has to offer. For $839 per Suite for two nights and for two guests, based upon availability.
The two of you will enjoy a soothing Couples Massage for one and a half hours in our private couples massage treatment room. For $929 per Suite for two nights and for two guests, based upon availability.
Icicle Village Resort
505 Highway 2, Leavenworth
800-961-0162
www.iciclevillage.com
Story by Kevin Unruh
