Your key to beauty

I've talked before on this blog about how beauty is more than skin deep. While I don't specifically endorse certain types of intervention into our natural beauty, such as cosmetic surgery, I do endorse other interventions into our inner beauty from without. And don't we just all dream of how our ideal holiday would be just the ticket to perk us up from the inside?

By playing Radisson Park Inn's game online, you could win just that before 2010 is out. All you have to do is play their surprisingly addictive game here, dropping room keys into lines Connect 4 style. Get 4 in a row and you win the game. However, you don't have to get 4 in a row in order to get a chance of winning a holiday. The odds are all on your side: the game is easy and fun, you can play as many times as you like, and you get an entry into the draw to win an iPad or a £250 voucher for Radisson Park Inn Hotels - whether you win or lose the game.

As with a lot of things, there are a few provisos for pepping up your inner beauty (a lot of these hotels have spas, people). You must be over 18 to enter, and you must be living in the UK, Germany, Austria or Switzerland to be eligible. If you play before December 18 2010 (as many times as you like, remember) then you have every chance of winning - especially with two prizes being awarded per week (one iPad, and one £250 hotel voucher). At the end, all entries are mixed up and drawn from again for the grand prize of seven nights' accommodation at selected Radisson Park Inn Hotels in Manchester, Berlin and Djerba. Now, wouldn't that be a great Christmas present?

It's sometimes difficult to know how you'll benefit from visiting a hotel spa until you have a chance to do it: last time I went to one (for the record, though, it was not a Radisson Hotel but a hotel with a Nuxe spa in Paris) I was pampered impeccably and left feeling like I was walking on air and ready to take on the world. While some of that comes from the confidence boost you get from having your outer beauty preened and seen to, the feeling of destressing and relaxation cannot have a price put on it. Equally, your inner beauty can benefit from travel in general. While I have not visited any of the destinations that constitute the hotels in Radisson's grand prizes, I have been fortunate enough to travel the world over, including America, Thailand, and North Africa as well as plenty of places in mainland Europe. My next trip will be to Tenerife in a couple of weeks' time, where I hope to try out one of those fish spas for the first time. If you want a luxury holiday too, I'd advise you to get playing and get 4 in a row.