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Do You Use Airport Gyms? How About One Of JFK's 30 XpresSpas?

Forbes just put out a list of "Ten great things to do in airports," presumably because Forbes hadn't done a story about airports in a while. Once you get past the first couple paragraphs—reprinted press releases from the Denver Airport—there are nonetheless a few interesting suggestions.

One paragraph that particularly caught our eye was about the growing number of airport gyms and day spas. Most of the facilities are provided by hotels attached to the airports: the Hilton in O'Hare Terminal 2, the Westin in Detroit's McNamara Terminal, and so on. There's also a growing number of airport spa storefronts; for instance, JFK has over 30 XpresSpas, offering massages, facials, and waxing.

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Airport Spas: What's up with XpresSpas?

On our last trip through JFK's Terminal 4, we had a chance to check out the XpresSpa. Yep, our airport spa obsession continues!

Unlike the Massage Bar at EWR, XpresSpa looks like a real-deal spa, and indeed they perform some real-deal treatments like quickie reflexology massages (head, foot and leg), full body massages, manis, pedis and facials.

They even do waxing. (Though we can't imagine what would possess us to get a wax in an airport. If you have done this, please let us know what you were thinking.)

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Jaunted Tested: Massage Bars at the Airport

Whenever we gots time to kill in an airport, we like to troll up and down the gates checking out the retail offerings. Part of this stems from a necessity like "We need to buy a pack of gum" or "We want a bottle of water before take-off" or "We really need a big bag of trashy tabloid magazines to keep us occupied on the flight."

More often than we like, this airport-trolling stems from sheer boredom. And because we're airport geeks and travel a lot, we're always keeping mental tabs on which airports have what and where.

One of the things that always perks us up is a mini-spa, a place that offers quickie massages or mani/pedis or even facials and haircuts. Yet hitting up the mini-spa is not always practical because who has the time?

But yesterday, we had three whole hours to kill in the American terminal at Newark Liberty International and guess what we did? We tested the Massage Bar near Gates 30-39.

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