My friend and I are planning a Chicago Girls' Getaway Weekend in October. The plan is to have a relaxing stress free weekend of spa treatments, shopping and mostly fun without the husband and/or kids. Can anyone offer suggestions on hotels, spas, restaurants, shopping and entertainment? Thank you!!!|||If you want luxury, I would focus on the North Michigan Avenue area. The top hotels for luxury are:
The Four Seasons
The Peninsula
The Ritz-Carlton
The Swissotel
The Omni (rooftop sundecks!)
The Four Seasons and Peninsula have in-house spas, and Michael Anthony on Belmont Ave is also very nice. Any hotel in this neighborhood will put you in the middle of the nicest shopping/dining places.
Don't miss the Crate+Barrel superstore and the 900 North Michigan Shops (Oprah has a condo in this building). Water Tower Place is a high-end multi-level shopping center.
There's many restaurants in this part of the city. Bistro 110 (next to the old Water Tower) is as close to authentic French as you'll get.
Smith and Wolensky on the river (next to House of Blues) is a New York-style steak house that's one of the best in the city. You can go to the lounge on the 95th floor of the Hancock Bldg. (875 N Michigan) and have champagne and strawberries, and have the same view as the Observatory, without paying the entrance fee.
For musical theater, you'll have to do downtown to the Theater District. "Jersey Boys" and "Mary Poppins" are the big shows now. Make sure you swing by Millenium Park on south Michigan Ave. to take your picture in front of the "big bean" sculpture with your image reflected against the city skyline. On Wed. and Sats. you can see fireworks at 10:00 out on Navy Pier, a "touristy place", but worth it for the photo ops and people watching.
A nice, relaxing thing to do is take one of the boat rides along the Chicago River run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.|||http://www.girlsguidetotheworld.com/dest鈥?/a>
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