

Rainy Day
Ayurveda-inspired couples' treatments inside the Sutton Place Hotel, for the afternoon you both need to stop talking and just breathe.
Vida lives inside the Sutton Place Hotel, which lends it a certain quiet authority the moment you step off the street. The whole approach is Ayurveda-inspired: warm-oil treatments, steam, a general conspiracy to slow you both down until the usual mental traffic finally gives up and goes home. Book a couples' treatment, arrive in time to use the steam and lounge, and plan to spend a grey afternoon doing absolutely nothing as a team sport. It is a splurge by design, which means you save it for the dates that deserve ceremony: an anniversary, a hard week that finally ended, a rainy forecast that helpfully cleared your social calendar. The rain on the windows is not a problem here. It is scenery.