From Tourism BC – Bedazzled retreat.  Wellness hotel.  Bliss.  However you choose to describe it, the new Sparkling Hill Resort in BC’s North Okanagan is sure to be many things to many people.  With 152 crystal-appointed rooms, spectacular views, stellar menus and a dedicated crew of physicians, physiotherapists and spa practitioners, the newly-opened resort showcases both traditional and not-so-traditional approaches to wellness.  While you’ll most certainly find reflexology, aromatherapy, soothing Fango mud wraps and therapeutic massages on the menu, it’s the European touches that promise to set the resort apart.  (That, along with eye-catching Swarovski crystal elements throughout, including a custom-designed Kohler tub for two in each guest room, complete with a “starry sky” overhead.)  In all, 40,000 square feet of space is dedicated to mind and body stimulation: European therapies include a trio of therapeutic pools, steams and saunas, plus massages, facials and a cold sauna designed for cryotherapy.  Cryo what?  Glad you asked.  This favoured European treatment involves three minutes in the Cold Sauna, set at a bone-chilling -110°C. (Before entering the main chamber, guests enter two pre-rooms, set at -15°C and -60°C respectively.)  Sure to bring on the brrr, this dry cold experience stimulates and energizes the nervous and circulatory systems, triggering, interestingly, a sustained warmth throughout the body for up to six hours.  Forget conventional.  Head to where it sparkles. www.sparklinghill.com