EVERY HOLIDAY should have you coming back a new woman. Or man, writes SANDRA O'CONNELL
Here's one that really delivers.
Put it this way: the gorgeous in Gorgeous Getaways doesn't refer to exotic locations or balmy beaches. It means you, although Ravishing Returns might be more accurate.
In any case, how many travel companies can promise you not just the beach but the beach body to go with it?
Gorgeous Getaways can, as long as you're prepared to go under the knife to get it.
This very specialist tour operator flies women and men from the UK, Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia each year for a little nip and tuck.
Check out the firm's website for the strangely compelling before and after videos. Take Penny. Her two-week dream holiday saw her combine shopping and (regular) theatre-going with a full facelift and extensive dental work. A pretty fit-looking 43-year-old to begin with, she reckons she looks 30 by the video's end. Perhaps, but it's hard to tell with all that bruising and swelling. If ever a movie needed an epilogue, it's this one.
So what would encourage a person to holiday in hospital, not to mention one half a world away? Money. A breast enhancement here might cost about €5,500. For about half that Gorgeous Getaways offers the same procedure plus 10 nights' four-star accommodation, including transfers - and that's not just transfers to and from the airport but from the hospital, too. Bon voyage.
www.gorgeousgetaways.com