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.
*****
Vancouver

Robert Andrew Salon & Spa

at the Hotel Vancouver

This was the first spa in Canada to offer the delicious hot-stone massage, first developed in Arizona. Specially trained staff place heated, ultrasmooth basalt rocks on your body's pressure points, muscles and major energy centres, to "balance" body energy--or something like that. They then use the rocks, now made slippery with aromatic oils, to knead away tension. Who cares how this really works? The 75-minute treatment, at a cost of $100, is so relaxing, most clients just nod when told what's happening--nod off to sleep, that is. (Tel: 604-687-7133)

*****
Hong Kong

The Ritz-Carlton Spa

In addition to its more traditional spa services, the Ritz-Carlton offers an order-in Bath Menu that gives a whole new meaning to the term "room service." Choose from eight aromatherapy baths designed to relax, cure, pamper or rejuvenate; 15 minutes before your desired bath time, a butler arrives with the necessary amenities. The Gentleman's Bath ($58) features woody scents, a fine cigar, a glass of Cognac and a plate of lobster canapés; The Evening Out Bath ($53)--the perfect prelude to a night on the town--is scented with peppermint, rosemary and juniper, and accompanied by a glass of Champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries. (Tel: 852-2877-6666)

*****
Tokyo

SPA Health Club at the Four Seasons

Soak away your stress in a classic Japanese Onsen bath (roughly $65), filled with steaming, filtered mineral spring water from the nearby Izu Peninsula. And you decide how social you want to be: There are separate baths for men and women inside the health club, or a communal hot bath outside in a lush garden setting. Afterwards, enjoy the deep-tissue sport rub-down, or a relaxing oil massage, in the spa or the privacy of your own room. (Tel: 81-3-3943-2222)

*****
Los Angeles

The Peninsula Spa at

The Peninsula Beverly Hills

It is a contravention of state laws to look wan and listless in Southern California. Jump-start your jet-lagged system with the 90-minute Peninsula Signature Jet Lag Treat ($210), designed to pamper and purify wrung-out long-haul fliers. How? Your bod is gently dry-brushed to eliminate oily skin, then submerged in a hydrotherapy tub filled with essential oils and sea algae, which flush out nasty toxins. Finish up with a relaxing massage, and you're ready for your Ray-Bans.

(Tel: 310-551-2888)

*****
New York

AWAY spa/gym at W

Wanna feel like royalty without all the royal pains the blue bloods put up with these days? This spa's one-hour-and-45-minute Javanese Lulur ($225) treatment is a traditional ritual enjoyed by Javanese royal brides. A full-body massage is followed by a head-to-toe skin scrub using a blend of rice, turmeric, sandalwood and jasmine. Then comes a soothing shower; finally, a moisturizing jasmine/frangipani lotion is applied to your now glowing skin. Men can enjoy a similar, if more masculine, experience with what the aWay calls the Bali Spice treatment. Take us away. (Tel: 212-407-2970)

*****
Toronto

The Spa at Windsor Arms

Patricia Miller, who has run a thriving aromatherapy clinic in Toronto since 1976, was hired to design spa services at the refurbished Windsor Arms. Like the Hong Kong Ritz-Carlton's Bath Menu, the one at the Windsor Arms brings some of its best services to your hotel room door: Special warmers--little plug-in dishes that hold drops of oil, whose smell wafts through the room--let you scent your space with sweet orange or lavender essential oils. Ensure a refreshing sleep with an in-room, 90-minute Night Cap: an aromatherapy bath followed by a therapeutic massage. Or, if you have the time, head to the spa proper for its two-hour Body Glo Treatment ($175), which should leave you cleansed, buffed and toned all over. (Tel: 416-971-9666)--