SpaVela: Your Spa Experience Is All In The Family

YOUR SPA

EXPERIENCE

Is All In The Family

by Steve Gamel | photography by Miranda Longoria Photography

If you’ve ever visited Sutera Spa in Flower Mound, you likely swore after your very first visit that this was hands down the best spa experience of your life and that you’d never go anywhere else. But all these years later, you keep hearing about this new luxury med spa down the road called SpaVela. You’d like to give it and their expanded services a try — especially with Mother’s Day coming up — but you can’t help but feel like you’d be cheating on your friends at Sutera.

Stacey Maness and Luane McWhorter have co-owned Sutera for the past 17 years and want you to give the new place a try. After all, they own Sutera and SpaVela — and it’s time you take advantage of what both can offer.

“We want our clients to be at both. No matter which one you go to, you’re going to get 5-star service and love your experience,” Maness said. “Maybe you do some services at [Sutera] and others at [SpaVela] — and that’s OK. We want both of them to thrive, and the clients will like both because of the unique experience each one provides.”

McWhorter agreed.

“We have people right now who are visiting both,” she said.

Sutera is still offering all the same day spa services you’ve come to know and love, including massages, facials, waxing, and body treatments. SpaVela has all of that, too, but with the added benefit of luxury med spa

and beauty services that have set a new bar for the industry. The new 5,000 square foot facility, located in the eye-catching 150-acre Lakeside development in Flower Mound, offers everything from therapeutic and hot stone massage to Hydrafacial, Botox and Restylane Silk injections, B12 shots, skin pen, microdermaplaning with a peel, and more.

There are 11 treatment rooms at SpaVela, including three for couples massages and facials — creating a perfect match for any of your special Mother’s Day plans. They also have saunas and steam rooms in both the men’s and women’s locker rooms and complimentary valet parking. With all those amenities under one roof, how can you go wrong?

“Most spas aren’t going to have that much space,” McWhorter said. “For something like Mother’s Day, we will, of course, make the day special with special treats like Mimosas, non-alcoholic drinks, chocolate, and promotions.”

It’d be crazy not to take Maness and McWhorter’s word for it. Over the past 20 years, they’ve been inseparable friends and business partners while entrenching themselves as trusted beauty queens of

Denton County and beyond. While they went into business together with Sutera and SpaVela, McWhorter also owns Grand Spa in Dallas. The same medical director that oversees Grand Spa in Dallas also oversees SpaVela, and their staff is certified and has years of experience.

If you want to give your mind, body, and soul a vacation, the only places you need to go are Sutera and SpaVela.

“It really is all in the family,” Maness said. “Some might feel like they are cheating by going to the other one, but it’s really not that way at all. You actually get a more well-rounded experience by going to both.”