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True Life: I'm At A Spa On Long Island

Where: 80 West Broadway [map], Long Beach, NY, United States
March 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM | by egw | 1 Comment

It takes a little chutzpah to open a spa in an economy like this. Naturally in any climate developers would look for the perfect place to develop that dream getaway, without anything that might make a potential customer blanch. But like a foaming hot tub pool, we're not quite ready to get into the Allegria Hotel and Spa just yet.

On paper, the Allegria looks like a perfect plan: A luxury hotel in a mostly condos-only strip, with big plans for LEED certification. But we can't get over that the hotel used to be a nursing home -- as in two years ago. (Then it had 170 rooms; now it only has 143.) Gut reno or no, paying $199/night or more for Grandma's old place, with the added bonus of being nowhere in particular, gives us the shakes. At least at the Spa Castle the old people get to play along.

Related Stories:
· November 2007: Long Beach's New Welcome Mat [NY Times]
· Allegria Hotel and Spa: LEED on the Ocean in Long Beach [Green Buildings NYC]
· Los Angeles Spas Celebrate Detoxification, Ogling [Jaunted]

[Photo: Small Luxury Hotels of the World]

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  1. brooklynnomad

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    Wow

    I grew up one neighborhood over in Rockaway Beach and they have tons of run down nursing homes on their boardwalk (who were the geniuses that came up with that idea?). I hope to stop by this place in the summer and check it out. TheBrooklynNomad.comn
    March 20, 2009 at 4:38 PM
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