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If you are in need of Mother’s Day Ideas, these can’t be beat.  If you can’t get away on the big day, be sure to place one on your calendar soon! I myself have been to the lovely pool you see above and can attest it is worthy of the best mom on the planet!
PAMPERING ON THE PACIFIC COAST / Panama City
The Westin Playa Bonita
 Located just twenty minutes outside Panama City, The Westin Playa Bonita is a tropical, beachfront oasis for moms in need of a little R&R. Help her drift away with the Sensory Spa Experience at the resort’s Sensory Spa by Clarins, which includes five spa treatments, ranging from aromatic and hot stone massages to facials, exfoliations and rasul baths — an eastern treatment that combines cleansing seaweed and mud to smooth and soften skin. If that’s not enough, a visit to the spa’s herbal sauna, amethyst crystal steam room or private poolside cabanas will surely leave mom feeling rested and renewed. ($120 for 100 minutes)

Book it: Guests staying at the resort can book an appointment via the resort concierge, or email sensory.spaw@westinplayabonita.com.
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A SPA DAY FIT FOR THE MAYAN GODS / Cancun
JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa
Want to really show mom how much you love her? Surprise her with a tropical spa getaway to JW Marriott Cancun this Mother’s Day! Located on one of Cancun’s brightest sugar-sand beaches, the resort spoils supermoms with the best of the best at it’s 35,000 square foot Mayan Spa. The resort’s Spa Pampering Getaway includes two 50-minute Swedish massages, one facial, one manicure, one pedicure, daily $100 resort credit and ocean view accommodations. Mother’s Day weekend rates start at $429 per night (with $100 daily resort credit to play with). 
Book it: visit www.jwmarriottcancun.com and use promotional code Z85.
 

FOR THE MOM WITH STYLE + SASS / Fort Lauderdale
W Fort Lauderdale

Want to spoil her silly? Send mom to the ultra-chic W Fort Lauderdale, which lounges glamorously along South Florida’s sugar-sand coastline and is guaranteed to make any mama feel like a million bucks. The city’s sexiest hotel will pamper moms through May 10th   with the purchase of a gift card for W Fort Lauderdale’s Bliss Spa valued at $150 or more, and you can also gift mom with her very own private cabana to enjoy all day at our WET deck upon redeeming her spa service.  Additionally, when you purchase the gift card in store, bliss will give you a 1oz sample of bliss’ delicious body butter that you can keep or gift to mom. Can you think of a better way to say “thanks”?

Book it: Book online at wfortlauderdalehotel.com and order the Blissful & Bubbly for $170.

FAMILY BRUNCH WITH MOM / Miami Beach 
The Palms Hotel & Spa
Located in the heart of mid-beach Miami inside The Palms Hotel & Spa, Essensia Restaurant & Lounge is celebrating moms with a special “natural gourmet” buffet-style brunch that includes bottomless mimosas for the entire fam (age permitting, of course). Their culinary team awaits with a smorgasbord of specialty food stations, including a hot bar (think Kobe Sliders, Potato Latke Cakes, and Fried Chicken & Waffles), seafood bar (freshly shucked oysters and snow crab claws), and dessert station (Cocunut Macaroons and Boston Cream Cupcakes). Brunch can be enjoyed indoors or al fresco surrounded by the hotel’s tropical gardens. Pricing starts at $69 per person ($29 for children 12 and under).
Book it: Reservations are required; call 305.908.5458 or online at http://www.essensiarestaurant.com/specials/