Cell Out at Wireless-Free Resorts

Baldwin Louie — Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0700

Wireless means never being able to say you're unreachable. There's usually no excuse for turning off your e-mail pager and mobile phones, unless you stay where the little chirping beasts are forbidden. Book a last-minute weekend at one of these resorts and groove to the sounds of silence.

New Age Spa
Neversink, N.Y.
(800) 682-4348
Televisions and phones aren't the only things verboten at this 155-acre Catskill Mountain retreat located two hours from Manhattan. You'll also have to do without cigarettes and coffee while you stay here. In addition to organic vegetarian meals, Zen meditation, swimming, steam and sauna, the New Age Spa offers a 50-foot-high hourglass-shaped climbing structure called the Alpine Tower. $140 to $320 per night.

Mirbeau Inn Spa
Skaneateles, N.Y.
(877) 647-2328
Cell phones are prohibited in public areas at this 1-year-old facsimile of a 17th-century French country estate. The three-day Life's Intermission Program is designed to give you a break from the wired world. Soak in the simulacra of Monet-esque gardens, lily ponds and waterfalls. $195 to $285, or $800 for a three-room suite.

Korakia
Palm Springs, Calif.
(760) 864-6411
This Moorish Palace looks like a whitewashed mirage rising out of the scrubby desert a half mile from Palm Springs' main drag. There's not much to do besides sip drinks beside a jewel-like pool and banter with the supermodels who seem to flock here. Or you can take a tip from Winston Churchill, who liked to stay in the upper loft and practice his oil painting. $199 to $279 per night.

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