Best Spas Awards – USA
BEST SPAS IN ATLANTA
The Greater Atlanta Metro area includes Alpharetta, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, Dunwoody, Gainesville, John’s Creek, Lawrenceville, Marietta, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Snellville, and Woodstock, among others.
BEST SPAS IN BALTIMORE
The Greater Baltimore Area includes the cities and towns Baltimore Highlands, Brooklyn Park, Catonsville, Glen Burnie, Lutherville, Towson, and others
BEST SPAS IN BOSTON
The Greater Boston area includes Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Newton, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, Milton, and Quincy. Nearby communities include Arlington, Medford, Watertown, Wellesley, and Weymouth.
BEST SPAS IN CHICAGO
Greater Chicago is also called Chicagoland, which includes Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, Naperville, Arlington Heights, Cicero, Evanston, Gary (Indiana), Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Orland Park, Palatine, Schaumburg, Skokie, Waukegan, and Wheaton, Racine (Wisconsin), and Kenosha (Wisconsin).
BEST SPAS IN CINCINNATI
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BEST SPAS IN CLEVELAND
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BEST SPAS IN COLUMBUS
Columbus is both the capital of and most populous city in Ohio. The Greater Columbus area includes more than 2 dozen cities and towns, including Dublin, Powell, Ashley, Galena, Lancaster, Logan, and many more towns and villages in the counties of Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Hocking, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Perry, Pickaway, and Union.
BEST SPAS IN DALLAS
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BEST SPAS IN DENVER
Denver is the largest city in and the capitol of Colorado. Denver area communities, also known as Denver Metro, include Arvada, Aurora, Centennial, Lakewood, Thornton, Westminster, Castle Rock, Columbine, Englewood, Golden, Littleton, and Parker.
BEST SPAS IN DETROIT
Detroit is the most populated city in Michigan and is the largest city on the United States-Canada border, and the Detroit Metro Area includes many municipalities, towns and cities. Some of those include Ann Arbor, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Grosse Pointe, Livonia, Novi, Plymouth, Rochester Hills, Shelby Township, Sterling Heights, Troy, Windsor and more.
BEST SPAS IN FORT LAUDERDALE
Fort Lauderdale is on the Atlantic Coast and includes 7 miles of beaches. Fort Lauderdale communities include Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Sea Ranch Lakes, Hollywood, Dania Beach, Davie, Plantation, Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Tamarac, Wilton Manors, and Pompano Beach.
BEST SPAS IN HONOLULU
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BEST SPAS IN HOUSTON
Houston is in Harris County, Texas. It is the fourth-largest city in the USA and the largest city in Texas. Greater Houston includes 9 different counties and includes the principal cities of Houston, The Woodlands, and Sugar Land. Additional cities in the Greater Houston area include Friendswood, Galveston, Katy, Missouri City, Pasadena, and Pearland.
BEST SPAS IN JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville is just 24 miles south of Georgia and is part of the First Coast region, and 40 miles north of St Augustine, which is included in the Jacksonville Metro Area. Jacksonville also refers to Jacksonville Beaches: Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, and Ponte Vedra Beach. Jacksonville neighborhoods include Downtown Jacksonville, LaVilla, Brooklyn, Riverside and Avondale, Springfield, Eastside, and San Marco.
BEST SPAS IN LAS VEGAS
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BEST SPAS IN LOS ANGELES
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BEST SPAS IN MARIN COUNTY
Marin County is a beautiful area of rolling hills and valleys North of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, and includes the scenic towns and villages of Sausalito, Corte Madera, Larkspur, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Mill Valley, Novato, Point Reyes, and Fairfax.
BEST SPAS IN MEMPHIS
Memphis area communities, also known as Memphis Metro in the Mid-South area, include Bartlett, Southaven, Collierville, Germantown, Olive Branch, West Memphis, Horn Lake, Covington, Hernando, Holly Springs, Lakeland, Marion (Arkansas), Millington, Senatobia, Forrest City (Arkansas), and Arlington.
BEST SPAS IN MIAMI
Miami is one of the largest cities in Florida and is the largest city in Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade communities include Aventura, Coral Gables, Doral, Hialeah, Homestead, Miami Beach, Miami Gardens, Miami Lakes, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, West Miami, and more.
BEST SPAS IN MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin, and is located on the south shore of Lake Michigan. Milwaukee area and Milwaukee County communities include Racine, Waukesha, Beaver Dam, Brookfield, and many more.
BEST SPAS IN MINNEAPOLIS
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BEST SPAS IN NASHVILLE
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BEST SPAS IN NEW YORK CITY
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BEST SPAS IN PALM SPRINGS
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BEST SPAS IN PHILADELPHIA
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BEST SPAS IN PHOENIX
Phoenix is the capital of and largest city in Arizona. Greater Phoenix is very large — it is one of the largest cities (by land area) in the United States. It is in Maricopa County and includes Apache Junction, Avondale, Carefree, Cave Creek, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear, Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, and many more communities.
BEST SPAS IN PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh is the second largest city in Pennsylvania. The Allegheny County city is generally mapped into these key areas: The Downtown area (also called the Golden Triangle), the North Side, South Side/South Hills, East End, and the West End. Pittsburgh Metro or Greater Pittsburgh is the largest population center in both the Ohio River Valley and Appalachia.
BEST SPAS IN PORTLAND
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BEST SPAS IN SACRAMENTO
Sacramento is the capital of California, the seat of Sacramento County. Neighboring cities and towns include Fair Oaks, Carmichael, Roseville, Folsom, Granite Bay, Elk Grove, West Sacramento, El Dorado Hills, Citrus Heights, and Orangevale.
BEST SPAS IN SAN ANTONIO
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BEST SPAS IN SAN DIEGO
San Diego County’s largest communities include San Diego, Chula Vista, Oceanside, Escondido, Carlsbad, El Cajon, Vista, San Marcos, Encinitas, National City, and La Mesa. Neighboring towns are Coronado, Del Mar, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Imperial Beach, Lemon Grove, Poway, Santee, and Solana Beach.
BEST SPAS IN SAN FRANCISCO
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BEST SPAS IN SAN JOSE
San Jose’s Silicon Valley communities include Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga, and Sunnyvale.
BEST SPAS IN SEATTLE
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BEST SPAS IN SEDONA
Sedona is in the Upper Sonoran Desert, Northern Arizona. While it’s year round population hovers around 11,000, it receives over a million visitors each year to its five distinct areas — City Center, Red Rock, Big Park, Oak Creek, and West Sedona.
BEST SPAS IN TUCSON
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BEST SPAS IN WASHINGTON DC
The District includes a sizable metro area! Washington D.C., Georgetown DC, Arlington VA, Alexandria VA, Bethesda MD, Bowie MD, College Park MD, Fairfax VA, Frederick MD, Gaithersburg MD, Germantown MD, Laurel MD, Silver Spring MD, Tysons Corner VA, and many more.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
POLLING PERIODS
Our polling and voting periods are fairly flexible depending on the region, area, and many variables (including weather). Ideally, our nominations for Best Spas are typically collected between January and July; our votes are collected thereafter (generally for 90 days), and our Secret Spa Reviews are generally conducted during this same period, and after polls and voting closes. Awards are posted throughout the year at the conclusion of the nomination, vetting, voting, and reviewing process for each city.
NOMINATIONS
Nominations for Best Spa Awards are collected via online surveys and newsletter polls during our open polling periods (stated on each open polling form). Voting is then compiled by calculating reader submissions during open voting periods, followed by our vetting process, and finally, by in-person visits to the top scoring spas by our Spa Index Secret Spa Reviewers.
VOTING
Once a spa has been nominated in the Best Of category, polls are sent to our subscriber email list, secret spa reviewers panel, resource and industry experts email list, and, posted on our website.
In order to avoid unnaturally inflated or “promoted” voting results, spas are never notified when secret spa reviewers have been assigned and will visit, and generally not notified when voting begins.
We prefer our voting results be based on industry reputation, organically collected reader votes, and secret spa reviewer impressions, rather than expert or aggressive marketing on the part of spa owners. That said, many spas owners become aware of our nominating and voting polls once they begin. While we do not encourage spas to aggressively market, we do not prevent them from requesting their clients and customers vote during an open poll, and they are not disqualified if they do so except under extreme circumstances (promising any form of incentive for voting, for instance).
AWARDS
Awards are based on a combination of votes received from our readers and panel experts, with additional and the most weight given to reviews by our Secret Spa Reviewers. Ties are broken by Secret Spa Reviewers, who visit each of the top nominated spas at least once, and often twice, during a polling and voting period.
Best Spa Winners are notified of their standing via email, Social Media, and occasionally by U.S. Mail. An article is written for our website, with the comments by our Secret Spa Reviewers. The results are blogged on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and via email to our subscriber base.
Spas are given a badge for their own websites on request, but of course they are not required to display it. Framed Certificates are also offered for display in the spa, upon request.
SECRET SPA REVIEWERS
Secret Spa Reviewers do not reveal their association with SpaIndex.com, nor do they receive complimentary services or other incentives from any nominated spas in exchange for positive reviews. Spa Index Secret Spa Reviewers are fully reimbursed by SpaIndex.com for the cost of spa services after reviews are submitted and accepted.
The identity of Secret Spa Reviewers is kept anonymous for our vetting and reviews process, and during fact-checking. Reviewers are not permitted to reveal their identities to the spas or reveal a schedule, agenda, or pending review in any public forum or on social media.
MEMBERSHIP
Nominated Spas are never required to be members of or listed on SpaIndex.com Guide to Spas. In fact, nominations and winners are frequently a combination of reader favorite spas who are not members of our spa directory, and those which are.
I would like to nominate a spa in Texas for Top Medspa in Texas / South Texas.
Thank you Brenda! Our nomination submission forms are posted for each City/State on a schedule. We collect nominations and votes on specific polls for those cities, rather than on this Menu Page. Our 2020-2021 results have been delayed due to Covid Restrictions, while we await many spas to reopen. We will post the poll results as soon as the majority of the winning spas (and day spas in general) have fully reopened. While we don’t currently have an Open / Pending Poll in Texas (those polls have already closed), we’ll be sure to let you know when we do for 2022.
Understand why you delayed for 2020 — but looking forward to see if my Mother’s spa won again! :)
GREAT fun voting for these spas, can’t wait to see if my faves are here for 2019-2020.
looking forward to awards for 2020