To Do: Making the Most of Your Fine Hotels + Resorts $100 Experience Credit

After an unpredictable 2020, we’re looking ahead to experience new, safe, and meaningful travel. From the simple and restorative — receiving a much-needed massage and facial — to the more adventurous — horse ride on the beach, perhaps? — Fine Hotels + Resorts® properties offer an array of unique experiences. And with all bookings, Platinum Card® Members can enjoy a $100 experience credit, that can be applied toward luxury experiences and activities, different at each property. Read on to get inspired before you go.

Featured in this Article

Caldera House
The Cloister at Sea Island
Boca Beach Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort
Hotel Emma
Montage Palmetto Bluff
Canyon Ranch Lenox
Terranea Resort
Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa
The Brazilian Court Hotel
Miraval Arizona
Park Hyatt Washington D.C.
1 Hotel South Beach
Mandarin Oriental, Miami

Caldera House

Teton Village, Wyoming

Mountainside Dinner Is Served

Caldera House

Want to eat a majestically prepared dinner in the most VIP manner possible? Each suite at Caldera House is equipped with its own chef’s kitchen and spacious dining room. Order up room service or use your $100 experience credit toward an indulgence in true luxury: arrange for a chef from onsite Old Yellowstone Garage to prepare you a private meal in-suite as you take in the view of the great American West and the mountains. Elk carpaccio, Wyoming onion soup, and handmade pastas await, along with coveted satiety and solace.

The Cloister at Sea Island

Sea Island, Georgia

Get in the Saddle, Then on to the Sand

The Cloister at Sea Island

Horseback riding on a glorious beach — it’s a transformative vacation experience, and one guests can use their $100 experience credit toward harnessing at The Cloister at Sea Island. There’s a range of equine bliss to be had: Sea Island beach rides along the Georgia coast, marsh rides surrounding Rainbow Island, or private equestrian lessons can all be on your getaway itinerary. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience, in a one-of-a-kind locale. Naturally, there’s also golf, hunting and fishing, and water sports on hand (you can use your experience credit there, too) — you’re not likely to run out of new activities during your stay.

Boca Beach Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort

Boca Raton, FLorida

Test Out the Waters

Boca Beach Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort

At the Boca Beach Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, your most difficult decision may be which to leave first: the resort or the ocean. The luxury beach-club resort provides access to some of the most beautiful waters in the country, and some of the best sports to stir up that water, to boot. Use your $100 experience credit toward snorkeling, sailing, parasailing, wave running and kayaking, for an up-close view of those waters. If boards are your thing, the resort also is home to experts in surfing and paddle boarding. Need a break from the ocean or pool? Top-shelf tennis and golf are on the menu, too.

Hotel Emma

San Antonio, Texas

Deep in the Heart of Texas … Dining

Hotel Emma

You won’t go hungry in San Antonio, even if you never leave the property of the historically located Hotel Emma. Choose from the seasonal farm-to-table menu with multicultural Texas influences at Chef John Brand’s Supper restaurant, where you can use your $100 experience credit toward dinner for two. If room service is more your speed, get the courses delivered and enjoy them in your bathrobe with whatever you’re streaming that night. Next night, new dining adventure? The Emma boasts a culinary concierge that curates foodie events both at the hotel, and on the Pearl culinary campus surrounding the resort (including their own farmers’ market).

Montage Palmetto Bluff

Bluffton, South Carolina

Tee Time at a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course

Montage Palmetto Bluff

Has there ever been a better time to go golfing? Enjoy a quiet, meditative moment, or get in those daily steps on one of the most majestic courses in the country: The May River Golf Course at the Montage Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, South Carolina. An 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Course, this 7,000-plus-yard scenic nirvana is woven into the May River Forest, dotted with century-old live oaks and breathtaking views. Each tee box and fairway is designed with eco-friendly turf. Your $100 experience credit can be used toward golf or lessons — or a snack and drink after your tee time.

Canyon Ranch Lenox - All Inclusive

Lenox, Massachusetts

For the Body and Soul

Canyon Ranch Lenox

At the fabulously rustic-chic Canyon Ranch Lenox - All Inclusive you can get more than just an excellent spa treatment (though that you can, indeed, achieve): you can explore spiritual therapies of numerous varieties. Apply your $100 experience credit toward a scheduled meeting with a spiritual wellness adviser to explore your body-spirit connection at The Canyon Ranch Lenox Spa. Or take advantage of the metaphysical, with astrology, clairvoyant, and tarot card readings. Stop and take a larger look at your wellness in one beautiful location: the woodsy setting of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.

Terranea Resort

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Link Up on West Coast Time

Terranea Resort

Enjoy some of the most majestic views in Southern California, of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island, while simultaneously embarking on a most relaxing sport: championship-caliber holes of golf at The Links at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes. Use your $100 experience credit toward a tee time and spend the day on the green. After your game, enjoy a drink and meal at one of Terranea’s nine eateries, or make your way to the spa for a treatment or two.

Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa

Beaver Creek, Colorado

Exhale in Beaver Creek

Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa

Shown to relieve stress and acute and chronic pain, acupuncture takes spa relaxation to the next level. And at Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa, your $100 experience credit can take you there. Enjoy standard or targeted acupuncture, and don’t forget about manicures, pedicures, and facials. Take a break from the slopes and emerge from Exhale feeling relaxed and rejuvenated.

The Brazilian Court Hotel

Palm Beach, Florida

Dine with Chef Daniel Boulud

The Brazilian Court Hotel

At The Brazilian Court Hotel, use your $100 experience credit toward dining like royalty in a historic landmark hotel with nostalgic glamour and boutique charm. Internationally renowned, Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud’s Cafe Boulud Palm Beach will offer you the space —with a very fine glass of wine — to do so. Take in the view of palm trees and fountains on the restaurant’s terrace while you enjoy modern French cuisine: Dover Sole, Celeriac Risotto, and Black Angus Filet Mignon. And may we recommend the warm upside down Guanaja chocolate cake with pistachio ice cream, or if you’re not in the mood for sweets, a gorgeous cheese plate awaits.

Miraval Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Adventure in Arizona

Miraval Arizona

If you’re looking for a truly authentic experience, look no further than Miraval Arizona — and use your $100 experience credit to take full advantage. Resort credit can be applied to a range of relaxing spa treatments, or for something more adventurous: culinary classes, equine experiences at Purple Sage Ranch, and other private classes and consults with Miraval Specialists. There’s something unique for everyone, here, and hardly a reason to leave.

Park Hyatt Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C.

We’ll Take the Michelin-starred Duck…

Park Hyatt Washington D.C.

During your visit to our nation’s capital, take a break from the hustle and bustle of seeing monuments and soaking in history. Your $100 experience credit is good for use towards a dining respite at the Michelin-starred Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt Washington D.C. It features an open kitchen with a wood-burning oven that turns out whole fish, New York strip, and yes of course, duck breast, alongside beautiful pastas, grains, soups and salads. Staying in? Enjoy Michelin-starred room service by ordering Blue Duck Tavern treats to your room.

1 Hotel South Beach

Miami, Florida

Choose Relaxation

1 Hotel South Beach

The Bamford Wellness Spa at Miami’s 1 Hotel South Beach is a stunning respite from sun and sand. Voted Florida’s Best Hotel Spa by the 2020 World Spa Awards, the Bamford Spa, founded by organic wellness entrepreneur Carole Bamford originally in the English countryside, employs a holistic approach to a spa, bringing in the natural environment plus mind-body techniques. Use your $100 experience credit toward a vast menu: massages, facials, red light therapy treatments, microcurrent lifts, and more using Bamford’s own line of organic skin-care products. Spa isn’t your thing? Head up to the 1’s Watr at the Rooftop bar and use your credit toward sushi and a glass of bubbles.

Mandarin Oriental, Miami

Miami, Florida

A Calming Welcome to Miami

Mandarin Oriental, Miami

The spa at the Mandarin Oriental, Miami can be a day-long affair. At the Mandarin spa, your $100 experience credit can jump-start a completely tailor-made day of treatments, focusing on the elements of life and the wellness therapies culled from Chinese, Ayurvedic, Thai, Balinese, and European medicine. This could include a Qi, a Marma, Healing Wave, Thai, and numerous other energy-focused massages. Doesn’t it sound like a luxury to leave your phone behind for a bit? Alternatively, use your $100 credit toward a drink and meal — takeout or onsite, maybe even room service — at the luxurious Peruvian restaurant La Mar by Gastón Acurio — and watch the sun set in dazzling Miami.

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