A day of tranquility awaits inside The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. The spa features 40 treatment rooms, and guests have access to an adults-only pool.
Winner: Day Spa | The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes oozes relaxation from the moment you drive through its entrance. Hidden in the heart of Orlando’s resort corridor, Grande Lakes sits on 500 lush acres at the headwaters of the Florida Everglades. Its nature inspired spa at the Ritz-Carlton is a 40,000-square-foot sanctuary where tranquility is your only concern for the day.
A true wellness retreat, the Ritz-Carlton spa features 40 treatment rooms and a full salon that offers a wide variety of services. Those looking for true luxury should seek out a massage, facial and/or body treatment; those focused on wellness can opt for an energy-balancing treatment or sound therapy. Want a closer connection with your sweetheart? Choose from two different couples’ treatments. Signature therapies incorporate herbs from the resort’s organic garden, honey from its resident bees and citrus from local orchards.
Don’t forget your extremities when bestowing the love: the Ritz-Carlton Spa offers nine different manicures and two pedicure options.
The Ritz-Carlton has even tapped AI to tailor massages to guests’ wants and needs. With Aescape, you can set your pressure preferences, pick your music and adjust treatments to your liking. The system scans your body, generating 1.2 million 3D points of data to create a topographic image, allowing you to get a massage customized to you.
Spa guests have full access to the fitness center’s classes and equipment, the Vitale Spa Café and an adults-only lap pool.
Winner: Hair Salon | Privé Salon
Privé Salon has been part of the Central Florida community for more than 20 years. In that time, it has helped thousands of clients look and feel their best by establishing long-lasting relationships and providing personalized service, hiring and retaining talented, caring and passionate people—most of Privé’s employees have been with them since the beginning.
The salon’s services fall under six different categories: haircut and style, coloring and highlights, hair extensions, hair treatments, professional makeup and event styling. When you come in for a haircut, you’ll be met by a stylist who is an expert in modern and precise cutting, texturing, shaping, layering and longevity. Colorists are trained in the art of Balayage, highlights and hair color, and are encouraged to deliver an artistic and modern color experience.
Privé sources only the highest-quality human hair for its extensions, allowing not only for a perfect color match, but to seamlessly blend in that hair for a natural-looking finish.
One of the greatest treats at Privé is its hair treatment services. It uses the latest technology and utilizes a special camera from Kérastase that zooms into the hair 600 times for an ultra-precise diagnostic. Try the “GK: The Best Keratin” natural hair-taming treatment, to keep hair under control in the most brutal of conditions.
Find the salon in two locations: just off Park Avenue in Winter Park or outside the Mall at Millenia.
Participants take part in a Studio K dance class led by Miguel Quinones. Photo by Roberto Gonzalez.
Winner: Gym, Studio for Body & Soul | Studio K
A top winner in two categories this year, Studio K is known as the studio where pop culture meets dance and fitness. It offers the largest variety of classes in Central Florida for those aged 14 and up—35 styles, including a variety of custom workshops and classes exclusive to Studio K.
When Kristin Weissman began Studio K in 2010, she saw it as a first-of-its-kind studio featuring dance and photography, with a public relations agency all in one location. Weissman’s long career in public relations is matched by her lifelong love of dance, and she wanted a one-stop shop where people could come together to feel better about themselves and make connections.
Weissman’s passion for animals is also evident at Studio K. You can meet its rescue, Bella, as soon as you walk through the doors, and the charitable division of the company, Studio K-9, works with local and national dog rescues to place animals. You can help out by participating in “Dancing with the Dogs,” from which 100 percent of the proceeds from certain studio classes are donated to these rescues.
Studio K’s classes are more than your typical gym offerings. Here, you can find Ballet Rock, Beyoncé Jazz Workshop, Pop Sweat and Sculp, Deep Stretch and Lyrical, where you learn choreography to build your own technique.
Prefer the dance floor to come to you? Studio K’s mobile team can bring the workout to your company, school, resort, summer camp or more.
Dr. Aileen Trivedi has been bringing smiles to life as a cosmetic dentist for nearly 25 years in downtown Orlando.
Winner: Cosmetic Dentistry | Fine Dentistry of Downtown Orlando
Not many of us enjoy going to the dentist. But we can take solace that dentistry is a specialized field, requiring much training. And, according to Orlando magazine readers, the team at Fine Dentistry stands out.
Fine Dentistry, led by Dr. Aileen Trivedi, prides itself on offering high-quality treatments from dentists at the top of their field. In addition, it offers a comprehensive suite of services under one roof, making outside referrals obsolete. Whether it be immediate same-day treatments or advanced dental implants, Fine Dentistry accommodates both adults and children.
Fine Dentistry also offers the leading Invisalign solutions in Orlando. With its Invisalign Aligners Orlando software, you can see exactly how much your teeth will move with each new tray, and how they will look as they move into their final positions. In preparing crowns, Fine Dentistry uses computer-aided design to custom fabricate tooth-colored restorations, crowns, onlays and veneers all in a single appointment. And its cone beam CT imaging takes X-rays to a whole new level.
Fine Dentistry is proud to call itself a Dawson Certified Practice. The Dawson Academy is a renowned postgraduate dental education center dedicated to advancing the practice of comprehensive, predictable and esthetic dentistry. Choosing such a certified practice means consumers have access to the latest dental techniques and philosophies, have an improved patient experience and are equipped with a plan that focuses on their long-term dental health.
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Winner: Physical Therapy Services | Pursuit Physical Therapy
Pursuit Physical Therapy believes that the patient should be placed first and that nothing should dictate the quality of your health care—except what is best for you. It solves the root cause of your pain with no medications, injections or surgery.
And you can expect only the best: only Board-certified orthopedic specialists make up its staff.
A sports enthusiast from a young age, owner Dr. Ron Miller learned the importance of staying physically active from his father. A Pennsylvania native, he moved to Orlando to do his residency, where he gained the knowledge to become an expert in his field. His first job was in an outpatient orthopedic setting, which he later became frustrated with: when regular patients would not return, he learned it was due to insurance limiting their physical therapy training sessions. He decided to do something about it, and opened his own practice, where private pay would give his patients optimal care in the least amount of time possible. At Pursuit Physical Therapy, it is his goal and purpose to continue to expand and provide that care consistently and quickly.
Pursuit’s programs focus on every area of the body, top down from headaches and migraines to foot and ankle pain. Its treatments are many: there are golf, tennis, running and pickleball injury programs, failed surgery treatments, pelvic floor and sports physical therapy and shockwave treatments. Patients learn not only how to relieve their pain but improve their mobility.
