DIY Amenities at Hotels Across the Country

The Lodge at Glendorn | Bradford, PA (pictured)

DIY Snowman Building: With winter now in full force and snow blanketing the ground in Western Pennsylvania, The Lodge at Glendorn is supplying guests of all ages with a DYI Snowman Making Kit complete with carrots for the nose, coal for eyes, twigs for the arms, and hat and scarf for accessorizing. The entire family can spend the day out in the snow building their very own snow-family around the property.

About The Lodge at Glendorn: Situated in picturesque Northwest Pennsylvania along the Allegheny National Forest, The Lodge at Glendorn provides 16 private accommodations and an abundance of custom experiences for each guest to have a one-of-a-kind stay.The Relais & Chateaux and Orivs endorsed property offers luxurious accommodations with beautiful private cabins, fine dining and world-class activities such as skeet and trap shooting, fly fishing, snowmobiling, hunting, cross country skiing, Jeep tours, bonfires and much more.

The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans | New Orleans, LA

DIY Cookies & Cooking: For guests looking for a unique culinary experience, The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans offers the ability to participate in a DIY culinary class, allowing guests one on one time with a Chef to learn how to make a popular Louisiana dish on their own. Enjoy the dish following the experience and use the newly learned skills and recipe at home. The youngest guests of The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans can also create their own confections with a special DIY cookie kit complete with cookies, icing and candy toppings. The latest DIY cookie kit features egg-shaped cookies just in time for Easter.

About The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans: Located on the edge of the French Quarter, the experience of the city comes to life as soon as guests cross the threshold of The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans. Set within the 1908 Beaux Arts Maison Blanche building, the luxury hotel highlights traditional Southern ambiance with an interior that reflects the graciousness of antebellum mansions. The sensory experience weaves its way throughout, with live music at the Davenport Lounge, local culinary experiences with our M Bistro, more than 100 treatments at our award winning luxury spa and 527 sleeping rooms dressed in rich fabrics and modern amenities.

The Ritz-Carlton, Naples | Naples, FL

DIY Glassblowing: Guests of The Ritz-Carlton, Naples have the opportunity to design their own glass keepsake through an interactive glass blowing experience with Conrad Williams, a Dale Chihuly trained glass artist. Guests will choose from a rainbow of colors and work beside the artist forming molten glass with their breath and shaping tools, resulting in a beautiful one-of-a-kind creation poolside. The DIY glass keepsakes include a unique light catcher or glass bowl.

About The Ritz-Carlton, Naples: Located on the pristine white sands of Southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast, The Ritz-Carlton, Naples offers 450 guest rooms and suites, all with stunning views of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a variety of innovative dining experiences, and a luxurious 51,000 square foot Ritz-Carlton Spa.

L’Auberge de Sedona | Sedona, AZ

DIY Spa Products: L’Auberge de Sedona recently debuted L'Apothecary, a newly designed spa concept for hotel guests and Arizona visitors to blend their own custom body care products and experience spa treatments that draw upon the destination's rich bounty of healing botanicals, fragrant herbs and flowers. L’Apothecary is L’Auberge de Sedona’s version of an apothecary, allowing guests to select ingredients and supplies to concoct and design their own bath soaks and body scrubs with an abundant offering of powerful elements found in Sedona, including rosemary, piñon pine, juniper, and more. In addition to offering a custom blending station, signature blend and body care line, the L’Apothecary experience extends into the spa menu with two new treatments that incorporate the same principles and botanical ingredients to promote healing of the mind and body through nature.

About L’Auberge de Sedona: L’Auberge de Sedona is an intimate creekside luxury hotel surrounded by the stunning Red Rocks of central Arizona. The hotel’s 11 acres of lush forested grounds offer 87 luxurious accommodations: 26 lodge style guest rooms, 61 private cottages including 12 Spa Cottages and Suites and 18 Vista Cottages and Suites.

Mission Point Resort | Mackinac Island, MI

DIY Cocktail Program: A new, seasonal cocktail menu deliciously integrates regional spirits with seasonal ingredients grown in the newly commissioned Cocktail Garden. Guests will have the opportunity to re-create these cocktails with their DIY Cocktail Program, which teaches guests about growing a cocktail garden and creating cocktails with the ingredients. Among the variety of herbs and flora selected for this season’s garden are lavender, rose-scented geraniums, lemon verbena, golden lemon thyme, and a host of different mints.

About Mission Point Resort: Set on 18 acres of lakefront property on the east end, where Lake Huron meets Lake Michigan, lies the 239 room Mission Point Resort. The Great Lakes icon embraces the best of the destination’s past while incorporating today’s twists on the classics. To speak of Mission Point Resort is to share the tale of classic Midwest escape, a destination ripe with Americana and “distinctly Mackinac” flavor based on timelessness and tradition. A pristine locale where transportation comes in the form of horse drawn buggies and bikes. Some might say the tale is a destination somewhat untouched by time.

Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort | Maui, Hawaii

DIY Spa Products: Situated on Maui’s premier southwestern coastline along Mokapu Beach, the Omakase Blending Experience at Awili Spa and Salon is the perfect DIY experience for those looking to pamper themselves. With the help of the spa’s Apothecary Consultants, guests have the opportunity to custom blend spa products while learning about the healing properties of each oil, tincture, serum and fragrance. Among the selection are locally sourced and destination-inspired ingredients such as Kava Kava, plantain, hibiscus, sugar, coffee berry, plumeria and maitake mushroom.

About Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort: The 14,000 square-foot full-service Awili Spa and Salon at Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort features 10 treatment rooms that include private rain showers, floor-to-ceiling ocean views as well as a private tranquility pool, men’s and women’s relaxation and locker rooms complete with sauna, steam room and a heated plunge pool. Additionally, the salon features multiple ocean-facing manicure and pedicure stations and a full-service hair salon.

The Arrabelle at Vail Square, A RockResort | Vail, CO

This winter, The Arrabelle has launched a new on-demand spa experience where guests can do their own face masks, bath salts, wine and chocolate on their own in the comfort of their room. Presented just like room service, but with beauty products, guests have your choice of three DIY spa offerings (full details below). There’s even one for kids! Guests can call down or order on in-room iPads, just like room service.

• Grand Luxe - Lavender and honey bath salts, honey oat pajama paste yogurt face mask, salted caramels and a glass of wine, perfectly paired for the experience ($52)


• Bourbon Revival - For sore muscles, this offering includes a Dilorescue milk bath and after bath body gel, under eye collagen revival mask and a glass of bourbon ($49)


• Feeling Smitten - Gelato sugar scrub, body cream pop and cupcake bath bomb ($36)