RESORTS, SPAS & RETREATS

Description

Rancho La Puerta, founded by Edmond and Deborah Szekely, is the original destination fitness resort and spa — family-founded, owned and operated. Today’s guests enjoy the very best resort spa experience, shaped by expertise developed over 65 years. Each week, some 150 guests share 3,000 acres of mountains and meadows beneath 3,885-foot Mount Kuchumaa. The peak straddles the U.S./Mexico border, and Native Americans consider its slopes and summit a sacred place — so much so that it was the first geographic feature in the U.S. to be named a National Historic Site by the Department of Interior based on spiritual significance.

Rancho La Puerta provides space — that which is most lacking in today’s life. Space to breathe freely. To relax. To renew, reflect and redirect one’s longer-living life. All facilities and land are for the exclusive use of guests who come for the week, arriving on a Saturday and departing on the next, ensuring the delights of a warm and welcoming community. Most of the facilities and lodgings are sprinkled amidst world-class gardens. Probably the world’s first “eco” resort, the ranch practices sustainable organic gardening and resource conservation, and leads the way in environmental protection and education efforts in the region. Within walking distance, their organic farm, Rancho Tres Estrellas, grows the healthy fare you will dine on daily.

A week here can change your life in ways both subtle and profound, from the strength of muscles reborn, to the stretching, freeing, and amplification of mind and spirit. Here you leave cares behind and enter an environment of untrammeled nature, serenity, trust, learning, safety, and soul-searching privacy balanced with the absolute delight of making new friends.

A one-hour drive from San Diego, barely across the border in Tecate, Baja California, the perfect, dry (never humid) climate, balanced between sea and desert at an altitude of 1,750 feet in a cooler mountain zone, makes this the ideal location for year round fitness activities, relaxation, and the recharging of everyone who wishes to live longer in the vigor and joy of good health.

"Family-owned since 1940, this landmark destination spa, the first in North America, offers not just first-rate fitness classes and tasty low-calorie mostly vegetarian food but also a dividend of lasting friendships with fellow guests…this one has something you can’t decree: personality with a capital P." - Spa Finder, Nov-Dec. 2006

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Reservation Policy

Cancellation Policy

• With notice of more than 30 days prior to arrival date, all of deposit will be refunded, less a cancellation fee of $50 per person, per week.
• With notice of 8 to 29 days prior to arrival date, cancellation fee is equal to two nights stay per person, per week, with the balance held one year for a future stay.
• Seven (7) days or less before arrival date, 50% of payment is non-refundable, and remainder will be held one year for a future stay within that time period.

Sorry, no refunds or adjustments are extended to those who arrive late or leave early.

Rates and tax are subject to change.