When she was a girl, Hillary and her two brothers spent summers at a cabin in the Pocono Mountains that had no indoor bath.
Next week, the hotel is offering two pup spa packages: $50 gets you or "it," a treadmill, grooming station, blow dryer and "indoor potty area"; for $75, you can get an indoor bath, too.
Pitches for tents and campervans start at €1.50 Opened as an "orthopaedic healing institute" in 1836 to take advantage of the 66C water, the Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme indoor bath (wiesbaden.de), created in art nouveau style in 1913, is a much-cherished historic monument, lavishly decorated with Jugendstil ceramics and frescos.
The hotel's tatami mat rooms were cosy and traditional, and its dazzling modern onsen had dozens of stylishly designed indoor baths, with windows overlooking the snow-covered bamboo and bonsai trees outside.
But even without their medicinal properties the Spa would be worth visiting for the spectacular design of the indoor baths, where warm tones of copper, emerald-green and azure-blue soothe as much as the bubbling water.
In 1856, another hotel had been built west of the Royal Albion on land previously occupied by Williams's Royal Hot and Cold Baths, an indoor bath-house.
The developer will then be able to build a restaurant, cafe, indoor thermal baths, a health retreat, fitness centre and accommodation.
AMENITIES The connecting Thermal Bath & Spa Zurich (25 Swiss francs for hotel guests instead of 55 Swiss francs for nonguests) offers indoor thermal baths fitted amid the brewery's stone walls and vaulted ceilings, and a rooftop open-air heated pool with phenomenal city views.
Each of the bungalows could qualify as a mini-resort unto itself, with a media room, plunge pool, indoor-outdoor bath, giant flat-screen TVs, mini-bars stocked with beverages of the guest's choosing and a private yard that backs up to that amazingly blue lagoon.
With its 50-foot indoor pool, whirlpool bath, sauna, 1,000-bottle temperature-controlled wine cellar and seven wood-burning fireplaces, it seemed perfect for a newly minted baron of finance, but the species was suddenly in short supply.
Expect roll-top baths, indoor and outdoor showers and fire pits.
