Irish Spring Is for Amateurs

When you're the greenest in Ireland, that's really saying something!

Monart, located amidst 100 acres of stunning Irish countryside, sees nature as the cornerstone to any great spa. Founded by hotelier Liam Griffin, this destination spa has everything you'd want in a stress buster — a salt grotto, hydrotherapy pool, aromatic steam room, indoor and outdoor saunas, relaxation rooms, cocoon-like dry floatation beds, nine individual hot and cold treatments, mud baths and a wide range of massages. Monart even has its own custom aquifer that gives all its water the highest mineral quality.The setting itself is also majestic with Mount Leinster in the background, horses roaming freely in the fields and green woodlands everywhere. There are beautiful beaches just minutes away, and the hotel offers every imaginable type of water-sport activity.

In such a beautiful environment, it's only natural that Monart would endorse a high green standard. Every tree they cut down during construction got integrated back into the design. Timber is used to heat and power the facility instead of oil, and any cooking oil used in Monart's fine restaurants is recycled into biodiesel fuel. There are even high-tech sensors that adjust the lights and temperatures for maximum energy efficiency.

Monart, located about 90 minutes from Dublin in the town of Enniscorthy, has built such a name for itself over the past three years that Forbes Magazine named it one of the Top 10 Destinations in the world. It's a beautiful thing that a place so dedicated to our health and comfort has a similar commitment to the environment.