A HOTEL spa owned by Annascaul businessman Tom McCarthy has been awarded the Best Holistic Spa accolade for 2009 by Irish Tatler Magazine.The judges conferred the award on the Yauvana Spa at Cork's Kingsley Hotel 'behind whose doors a total mind and body rejuvenation awaits.' The hotel owner, Tom McCarthy, is the former owner of the Hillgrove Hotel in Dingle and is well known in GAA circles as former chairman of the West Kerry board.
His daughter, Sandra Kennedy, who managed the Hillgrove in Dingle for 15 years is now the managing director of the Cork hotel.
According to the award judges the Yauvana Spa was chosen as it is Ireland's only fully customised Ayurvedic Spa, and has Yauvana therapists who are expert in the ancient Indian art of Ayurveda.
