It's time to check your bags--the ones under your eyes, that is. If too much time on the road is making you look worse for wear, take heart: Around the world, high-end hotels are supplementing their pool and gym facilities with full-service spas offering all manner of restorative therapies for skin dried out by 15-hour flights, shoulders stiff with premeeting tension and minds bedraggled by jet lag. Below, six human body garages to tempt your sybaritic soul, with a look at the house specialty of each.

Gone are the days when hoteliers could tout rental-free cellphones, personalized in-residence cards and high-speed Internet connections as cutting-edge, stand-out amenities. Fierce competition for high-end travellers, combined with a trend toward opulent boutique hotels that indulge guests like latter-day sultans, has compelled executive-class hostelries to offer innovative, eye-popping services just to stay on the map.

You can't knock it out of your system with a pill or ward it off with a prophylactic. You won't ever hear mention of it in the government's travel advisories. And it seldom turns up in journals of modern medicine. Men, in particular, are loath to discuss it, although they suffer from the symptoms every bit as much as women.

Billionaire recluse Howard Hughes lived the last several years of his life in a Vancouver hotel, a fact that may go a long way to explaining his alleged insanity. Any business traveller knows it doesn't take long for the walls of a standard 200-square-foot hotel room to start closing in on your psyche.