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In theory, camping always seems like a great idea -- until rain, bugs, and the lack of latrines remind you that you don't ever want to do it again. Let today's deal at Bear and Grill Restaurant fulfill your camp cravings in the comfort of Fairfield Center. Pay $10 for $20 worth of food and drink or $20 for $40 to spend on food and drink during dinner hours. This rustic eatery churns out delish burgers, steak, fish, and pasta amid decor resembling bygone camps of the Adirondacks. Admire the stone fireplace, antler chandeliers, and log cabin bar as you bite into a Texas BLT burger or ribs with grilled shrimp. Or, gaze at a faux starry sky while noshing on wild salmon in lemon thyme butter sauce. With this majestic menu selection, you can't help but be a happy camper.

Modern B&B in the Heart of Ohio Amish Country

Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the world's largest Amish community, a culture that eschews modern technology in search of a simpler lifestyle. Consequently, the region feels even more separate from city life than other rural areas, a trait that makes it especially attractive to some. The Inn at Honey Run embraces this ethos while still offering an onsite spa, an upscale restaurant, and other comforts you'd expect from a luxury boutique hotel.

The Inn at Honey Run's aesthetic is a far cry from the earthy farmhouses just a few miles away. Bucolic yet refined decor covers both the lobby and the guest rooms with wreaths of sinewy dried vines and local artwork made of wrought iron and polished wood. Several Select rooms occupy upper floors, where treetops are visible through reading nooks' skylights. Alternatively, Honeycomb rooms are built into a hillside and come with a secluded outdoor patio.

Every morning, guests gather at Tarragon, the Inn's upscale yet casual restaurant, for a continental breakfast of fresh fruit, yogurt, and house-made muffins and pastries. For lunch and dinner, Executive Chef Scott Fetty draws on his training and uses seasonal, local ingredients to craft upscale American cuisine.

At the onsite Spa at Honey Run, sip on flowering tea before a massage, facial treatment, or body treatment that uses 100% organic oils and scrubs. The hiking trails that crisscross the property are another source of relaxation, passing through meadows and forests and along burbling brooks. For an additional fee of $125, the inn will arrange an authentic Amish-country buggy ride around the surrounding hills.

Holmes County, OH: Bucolic Farmland Rich in Amish Tradition

Located about 80 miles south of Cleveland, Holmes County's rolling countryside is rife with farms and stores, as well as a few tourist attractions. See the Amish lifestyle up close at The Farm at Walnut Creek, which also houses exotic creatures such as giraffes, camels, and kangaroos alongside regional animals like cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The Holmes County Trail follows 29 miles of former railroad lines, from nearby Killbuck to Fredericksburg, with 15 paved miles accommodating Amish buggies and bicycles.

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Historical Inn with Glass-Enclosed Porch Overlooking Lake

In the 19th century, some of the Northeast's industrial pioneers- including Silas March, an entrepreneur and New York state assemblyman-spent their idle days in a clapboard estate built along the shores of Mariaville. In 2003, husband-and-wife innkeepers Rick and Lorrie Runnels purchased this historical home and dubbed it the Mariaville Lake Bed and Breakfast. Since then, they've made extensive renovations while managing to preserve the building's casual, Federal-style elegance; it still has its original moldings, wood-burning fireplaces, and hardwood floors in some of the guest rooms.

The building is tucked into a woodsy area along the private, 200-acre Mariaville Lake, and it's a prime spot to get in some fishing and swimming. The B&B also owns two kayaks, one canoe, and one rowboat, which are all available for guests. Or feel free to take a stroll through the wealth of hiking trails that crisscross the property; one in particular leads to a beaver dam. In summer and fall, you can tell ghost stories and dry your laundry over a crackling bonfire in the evening.

The inn's five guest rooms are individually decorated, but all look out to Mariaville Lake. You have to use an old-fashioned skeleton key to get into the Vineyard and Lakeview rooms, as they are located in the original part of the house.

Come morning, the innkeepers serve a breakfast by candlelight in the formal dining room or on the glass-enclosed porch. The chefs prepare a different hot entree each morning, such as banana-stuffed french toast, veggie frittatas, or puffed apple pancakes. You can typically find house-made pastries, fresh juices, yogurt, fresh fruit, coffee, and tea.

Mariaville, New York: Small Town on the Shores of Mariaville Lake

Mariaville is part of the 18th century town of Duanesburg, located about 30 miles west of Albany. Thanks to its location along the 200-acre Mariaville Lake, the town became a resort community in the 1920s. Not a whole lot has changed since then; there's still only one traffic light in the city to date, and every high-school class is taught by the mayor.

The town of Schenectady offers a dose of culture fewer than 15 miles east. Aside from shopping and restaurants, you can find the historical Proctors Theater, which opened as a vaudeville venue in the early 20th century but sank into disrepair by the late 1970s. A group of concerned citizens rallied to restore the theater, which now hosts regular performances of ballets, musicals, comedians, and concerts.

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Historic B & B with Park Views and Fine Southern Cuisine

Kentucky's Bluegrass Region is the textbook image of idyllic farmland-a landscape of rolling hills divided by rail fences into orchards, wineries, and horse pastures. In 1926, the Cleveland Orphanage Institution decided it was the perfect setting for educating children. They rebuilt the Cleveland Home as a Dutch Colonial Revival building, providing plenty of room for kids to run around. Today, it's become The Woodford Inn, a stately, red brick structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bruce and Linda Parker, two restaurateurs-turned-innkeepers, keep the place as welcoming as ever with warm hospitality and home-cooked southern fare.

The onsite Addie's Restaurant and Bar is named after Linda's mother, who used to prepare her family's large Sunday dinners. The restaurant serves local specialties such as the Hot Brown sandwich ($12) with roast turkey and country ham in cheesy mornay sauce. An equally hearty breakfast often includes pancakes, bacon, and omelets, all served from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. You can dine inside, where paintings of racehorses line the walls, or head out to the patio, which is flanked by grassy lawns and conifers. There's also a front porch, outfitted in classic southern fashion with rocking chairs and hanging ferns.

Inside, many of the inn's 10 guest rooms overlook the neighboring Woodford County Park. Though no two rooms are identical, all boast Tempur-Pedic mattresses, ornately carved headboards, and jacuzzi tubs. Room 3's two-person tub makes it a good fit for couples.

Versailles, Kentucky: Bluegrass Country Along Bourbon Trail

The town of Versailles was named after the site of Louis XIV's gilded palace in France, yet the two places share little in common. The American version is located along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, a string of famous distilleries including Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, and Wild Turkey. The region is also home to some of the most successful racehorse breeders in the world, whose ponies have gone on to win the Triple Crown and star in the doodles of 12-year-old girls all over the world.

Half an hour east, Lexington has many equine-related attractions of its own, including the Kentucky Horse Park and the Keeneland Race Track, a beautiful course that dates to 1935 and is known for its horse auctions. Nearby, the Mary Todd Lincoln House is filled with rooms made to look much like the ones lived in by Abraham Lincoln's First Lady.

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They say clothes make the man, but the car you drive makes a crucial impression, too. Don't get caught speeding down the Merritt in a set of wheels covered with springtime grime. Instead, zip off with today's deal from one of two Sunshine Auto Detail locations in Stamford and Norwalk. For $75, get a complete detailing package for your car (regularly $150). Got a bigger rig? Pay $110 for a detailing package for a minivan, truck, SUV, or large vehicle (regularly $220) from this Southern Connecticut service shop, founded in 2006. One of Sunshine's trained pros will hand wash, wax, and machine polish your ride -- plus vacuum the interior, steam-clean its upholstery, and make those mirrors and windows gleam with a cleaning. At 50% off in savings, this deal will make you look like a high roller... for a pauper's price.

You've been hankering for a fishing trip with the family. Rally the gang (up to 12 people) and hook today's floating deal from Boat Boys, Buckeye Lake's premiere water equipment outfitters. Pay $90 (regularly $200) and launch a day of fun in the sun with a four-hour pontoon boat rental during a weekday (Monday through Thursday) or on the weekend (Friday through Sunday) for $120 (regularly $240). After making your $100 refundable deposit and taking a test run with a staff member, you can set sail on the 3,100-acre lake located within Ohio's oldest state park -- just 30 minutes east of Columbus. Pack a picnic and inflate those inner tubes, because the whole crew -- including Fido -- can beat the heat with a cruise on the water, so what are you baiting, er, waiting for? Want more? Check out Boat Boys on Facebook.

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You've got to manage your regal tastes on a plebian budget, but your current trend of piecing together three-minute workouts in the living room just isn't cutting it. Caste aside your exercise regime for today's deal at Elite Pole & Fitness: Pay $40 for one virgin pole dancing class, a block of six fitness classes, and one Friday night wine event from this sexy Bridgeport fitness center (a $153 value). Brush up on the basics of this core-sculpting and booty-blasting class, then strut like a queen through Zumba, yoga, or other alter ego-stoking pole sessions. Classes are held on weekday evenings and Saturday mornings in this mirrored studio in Bridgeport. End with a Friday night wine event where you can show off your sultry moves and giggle with your new crew. Quit serfing the net to learn how to sweat -- and please the masses with this 74%-off deal.

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Keeping teeth clean and white is the first and only step in coping with the fact that your skeleton is slowly escaping from your body through your mouth. Deal with it with this Groupon.

$99 for Three Consecutive Teeth-Whitening Treatments ($297 Value)

The in-office treatment illuminates teeth in three back-to-back 20-minute sessions, separated, like realistic moments on most modern sitcoms, by five-minute breaks.

Abella Ultra-White

Abella Ultra-White's whitening system gifts clients with a smile as bright as one granted by a trip to the dentist's office, without activating the primal fear most humans have of the dentist's office. Customers apply a combination of reactive bleaching gels and LED light, abating tooth blemishes to brighten teeth up to six shades-which is what the six original Power Rangers called their umbrella collection.

The legendary fountain of youth certainly holds an appeal for those of us who would dunk a gallon-sized jug in if it meant saying good-bye to fine lines and eye bags. Wellness Laser Center and Med Spa in Polaris may not be a mythical pool of perfection, but with today's deal you can get superior results without a single sip from some mildewy pond: Pay $79 for one nonsurgical microcurrent facelift procedure (regularly $225) or pay $199 for three microcurrent sessions (a $675 value). This nonsurgical treatment uses a gentle instrument to deliver electronic stimulation to the face and neck muscles during a 60-90 minute session, and is virtually painless. Clients have reported seeing fresher, brighter complexions, smoothed jawlines, more toned necks and contoured chins, lifted foreheads, and fewer fine lines. Your new glow might even be the stuff of legends.

By Mikal McLendon, Travel Correspondent

Historical Boutique Hotel in Thriving Downtown Arts District

"Oh, that's pretty," says a well-dressed guest who has recently arrived at Hotel Providence, nudging her companion and nodding at a large jade sculpture of galloping horses. "That's our centerpiece," the concierge chimes in. "From China. It's really rare." The horses are the most vibrant piece adorning the marble-floored lobby of this hotel, whose collection encompasses French steel engravings, centuries-old murals, and gilded Swedish mirrors.

And the building itself has as deep of a history as the artwork inside it: the building had turns as a college dormitory, a department store, and a grain silo before the turn of the 20th century, when it was repurposed to become a classic New England hotel.

There's a definite appreciation for art here; each guest room is decorated with local artwork ranging from paintings of city scenes to ceramic sculptures of fish. Each also comes with a continental armoire and wooden headboards. The junior and premier suites are fairly spacious-there are separate living rooms furnished with queen sofas if you need to sleep extra guests or add reinforcements to your pillow fort. Premier suites have added luxuries such as a whirlpool tub, a granite wet bar, and floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the adjacent park and historical Grace Church.

Hotel Providence's Aspire Restaurant prepares New England-style cuisine such as clam chowder and jumbo lump crab cakes. Ingredients are sourced from local farms and the hotel's own rooftop garden. During warmer nights, you can dine in the restaurant's candlelit courtyard and enjoy selections from an international wine list.

Providence: Historical Haven Lined with Art Galleries, Restored Theaters, and Fine Dining

"The art scene is incredible here," raves Tricia Carter, Hotel Providence's marketing manager. "Every day there's something new." The active community support of the arts has helped to earn Providence its reputation as the "Creative Capital."

In an effort to rejuvenate the historical entertainment district here, the city partnered with its three universities and gave artists tax breaks to live downtown. You can now catch Broadway musicals and Tennessee Williams dramas at beautifully restored historical theaters from the 1920s such as the Providence Performing Arts Center and Trinity Repertory Theatre.

A short walk from Hotel Providence, you'll also find a vast network of downtown galleries; many of these feature the work of artists and graduates from the nearby Rhode Island School of Design.

The city's thriving food culture rivals the art scene in creativity and vigor; there's an enclave of Italian eateries on Federal Hill, and delis dot the downtown area. Many local chefs source their ingredients from farms bordering the city, which set up shop downtown on Fridays at the farmers' market. About 10 minutes south of downtown, the Culinary Arts Museum celebrates Providence's love of food with more than 250,000 artifacts, ranging from antique cooking gadgets to elaborate wedding cakes.

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Puerto Rican food includes numerous ingredients taken from other parts of the world, borrowing Africa's plantains, Spain's cilantro, and the United States' deep-fried baseballs. Take an internationally inspired bite with this Groupon.

Choose from Three Options

$31 for dinner for two (up to a $67 total value)

• One appetizer (up to a $15 value)
• Two entrees (up to a $26 value each)

$69 for dinner for four (up to a $174 total value)

• Two appetizers (up to a $15 value each)
• Four entrees (up to a $26 value each)
• Four drinks (up to a $10 value each)

$99 for dinner for six (up to a $261 total value)

• Three appetizers (up to a $15 value each)
• Six entrees (up to a $26 value each)
• Six drinks (up to a $10 value each)

Appetizers include Spanish meatballs in a Creole sauce or green plantains topped with beef, pork, and seafood. Entrees celebrate traditional Puerto Rican fare with braised oxtail, churrasco skirt steak, or red snapper stuffed with coconut rice. See the full dinner menu. The cocktail menu also includes mojitos, sangria, and frozen cocktails.

Siete Ocho Siete

During Puerto Rico's long history, Spanish, Tainos, and African cultures have contributed to the country's culinary tradition, leaving behind cuisine defined by exotic spices and simple cooking styles such as braising and grilling. After visiting the island and sampling many dishes themselves, Siete Ocho Siete's owners wanted to honor the tastes of the island's globe-hopping flavors. At their restaurant, chefs designed menus that highlight Puerto Rico's signature ingredients: the alcapurria's taro root and plantains arrive stuffed with seasoned ground beef, and the chillo entero al volante presents a whole red snapper filled with fragrant coconut rice. Meals arrive in an interior shot through with festive decor: the walls are brightly painted, umbrellas peek out of frosty cocktails, and tables dress up in freshly pressed white cloths. On some nights, the lilt of live musicians regales diners with mid-meal music, and a wave room with bay views supplies a romantic setting for dates or mermaids catching a meal between shifts.

People celebrate special occasions by decorating things with baubles, as evidenced by hanging ornaments on Christmas trees and emptying drums of diamonds over winning coaches. Bauble up with today's Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

• $29 for a jewelry-making class for two (up to a $60 value)
• $54 for a jewelry-making class for four (up to a $120 value)

This Groupon is valid for the Chan Luu Inspired Wrap Bracelet, Miss Susie Wrap Bracelet, or Shamballa Bracelet class. The Chan Luu Inspired Wrap Bracelet class demonstrates how to craft a designer-style, beaded leather bracelet, while the Miss Susie Wrap Bracelet class teaches up to eight students how to construct a tri-strand bracelet, necklace, or both by braiding leather and waxed cotton. According to Buddhist belief, the style of bracelets crafted in the Shamballa Bracelet class can boost peace, tranquility, and happiness when worn. All classes include materials. Click here for an in-depth description of classes and a schedule of available sessions.

A Bead of Roses

The experienced jewelry smiths who oversee the family-owned A Bead of Roses studio perpetuate the art of handmade, artisan jewelry during small-group classes. No prior experience is necessary to drop in on classes such as Beading 101 or Introduction to Precious Metal Clay Workshop, where the studio's staff teaches students to shape and fire pendants from malleable gold- and silver-particle clay. In metal-smithing classes, students learn to wield a torch or a sneezy dragon's snout to forcefully solder elegant necklaces. Classes take walk-in students or can be arranged for larger group events. A wide-ranging inventory of high-quality items-from feather hair extensions to hemp cord-keeps rivers of creativity from ever being dammed.

Treating cellulite can cause dimples to vanish, much like telling Shirley Temple she isn't real. Smooth things over with this Groupon.

$79 for Four Cellulite-Reduction Treatments (a $180 value)

Targeting either the upper arms, buttocks, hips, or thighs, the body wrap opens pores to allow the specialized gel to penetrate and break down cellulite. Treatments may be used on one area or split up between areas, though four targeted treatments are recommended for optimal results.

Open Door Salon and Day Spa

The beauty curators at Open Door Salon and Day Spa rejuvenate bodies with a host of salon and massage services. Staffers update tresses with haircuts, slather digits with Opi color, and whittle figures into svelte figurines with a selection of body wraps. Aiming to turn each customer into a long-term client, the staff customizes each service to meet individual needs and yodeling preferences.

"Get in shape" hovers near the top of many New Year's resolution lists, right next to "deal with raccoon infestation" and "figure out how raccoons get trapped in the TV." Stop watching so many TV shows starring raccoons with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

• $30 for $60 worth of vitamins and supplements
• $50 for $100 worth of vitamins and supplements

The Complete Nutrition inventory includes Complete Man and Complete Woman multivitamins ($29.99), preworkout Blitzz supplements ($63.99), and CTS Max fat-burning supplements ($59.99).

Complete Nutrition

At Complete Nutrition, certified personal trainers, strength coaches, and other fitness professionals steer customers toward leaner pastures with proper supplements and vitamins such as Rebuild, CTS360, and Complete Woman. Rather than simply handing off bottles of pills, staff members help customers understand what makes a regimen effective as well as what types of meals and supplements pair well with their plan. Complete Nutrition also works with health-care providers, nutritionists, and chemists to develop its own exclusive line of formulas and supplements.

Although the best mattresses feel as soft as clouds, the worst mattresses are clouds that send sleepers plummeting back to Earth. Rest on firmer billows with today's Groupon to Mattress Mart, valid at seven area locations. Choose between the following options:

• For $50, you get $200 toward mattress sets (valid for sets priced $399+).
• For $99, you get $400 toward mattress sets (valid for sets priced $999+).

A Consumers' Choice Award-winning business for eight consecutive years, Mattress Mart's slumber experts stock their stores with locally made and major-brand sleep surfaces-such as Tempur-Pedic, Serta, and Englander-in twin, full, queen, and king sizes. Customers can bring their own tray of french toast and test-drive eating breakfast in bed on the supportive picnicking grounds of a Posture Quilt twin set ($399), or support larger-scale lumbar regions with a soft, flippable Crazy Quilt king-size set ($999). The Mattress Mart's factory in Plain City also assembles and lovingly stitches lullabies into the Pure Rest line, which boasts a stamp of approval from the Ohio State Chiropractic Association for its top-notch support and superior spine coddling. Aside from setting down a firm, yet snuggly foundation for sounder sleep, Mattress Mart also provides a reassuring Rest Easy consumer-protection plan to help ensure bed buyers enjoy a pleasant purchasing experience and a future of happy REM cycles.

Though they guzzled their share of ambrosia, the Greek gods stayed trim by commuting up and down the formidable Mount Olympus. Add some zip to your fitness trips -- and get healthy -- with today's deal from Olympus Personal Training & Weight Management, situated off of Mill Plain Road in Danbury. Drop $60 for a weight-loss program, which includes a 30-minute initial consultation and four one-on-one sessions over the course of one month (a $199 value). You'll receive a personalized workbook with exercises and eating guidelines, plus unlimited e-mail and phone support. Founded by Stavros Mastrogiannis, a certified personal trainer and author, Olympus has helped clients shed pounds for more than 15 years -- so you'll earn the bod of the Greek god, without any of the mountaineering.

Kids these days are super sharp; that's why when they approach us for help with homework, we end up learning from them. With today's deal from the widely revered Huntington Learning Center, pay $49 for an academic evaluation and three hours of tutoring sessions to help your child stay competitive over the summer and prepare for the upcoming school year (a $345 value). The center's expertly trained tutors work with kids ages 5 to 17, and will school them in math, science, reading, writing, general study skills, and test prep, including SAT/PSAT, state tests, and Regents Exams. The one-on-one attention helps students achieve goals -- whether they want to ace eighth grade or graduate as valedictorian. Score this deal, and your child will step up study skills for sure -- while you look like a whiz kid saving 86%.

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Although receiving one's just deserts can be unpleasant, eating a meal of just desserts is the only way to consume the FDA's recommended daily allowance of frosting. Meet your mouthwatering nutritional needs with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

• $15 for one dozen specialty cupcakes (a $36 value)
• $25 for three dozen specialty cupcakes (a $72 value)

Customers call up the bakery two days in advance to place their order for cupcakes in whatever flavor combinations they can dream up. Examples of cupcake flavor options include Strawberry Supreme with strawberry cake and buttercream, Orange Creamsicle with coordinating orange cake and orange buttercream, and Chocolate Indulgence, which teams rich chocolate cake with chocolate-infused buttercream.

Cake Decor LLC

Cake Decor LLC is a one-stop destination for cake lovers, providing supplies, classes, and its own custom-decorated cakes. A team of Wilton-certified chefs creates imaginative designs to fit special occasions of all kinds, and shares their confectionary-crafting skills during hands-on cake-decorating classes. Amid a storefront stocked with an array of baking equipment, molds, party and wedding-specific supplies, and fondant tools, Cake Decor's chefs demonstrate how to build custom desserts that are a step above traditional cakes or melted Jolly Ranchers molded into a bust of Cookie Monster.

Without hair to protect them, scalps burn in the summer, freeze in the winter, and bear little to no fruit in the spring. Grow a bumper crop of hair with this Groupon.

Choose from Three Options

• $99 for two months of laser hair-regrowth therapy, for 16 total sessions (a $400 value)
• $179 for four months of laser hair-regrowth therapy, for 32 total sessions (an $800 value)
• $279 for six months of laser hair-regrowth therapy, for 48 total sessions (a $1,200 value)

Each 20- to 30-minute treatment uses nonthermal, red-laser-light energy to reinvigorate follicles and stimulate hair regrowth for men or women. The technicians typically advise patients to schedule one or two treatments a week for 6-12 months in order to generate optimal results.

Headlines

Although the stylists at Headlines are whiz kids when it comes to traditional salon services and product lines by Goldwell, Wella, and Schwarzkopf, they do more than just manipulate existing hairdos-they also help clients regrow thinning strands with their signature laser hair-therapy sessions. The sessions use low-level-laser energy to noninvasively energize strands, which causes them to sprout like sunflowers in a tanning bed full of Miracle-Gro. After 6-12 months of weekly treatments, men and women can sport a fuller-looking head of hair.

Much like mountain ranges, fat deposits take years to form and can stand between you and the coast. Tighten your body's topography with this Groupon.

Choose From Three Options

• $1,499 for a liposuction treatment of the chin (a $6,000 value)
• $1,499 for a liposuction treatment of the arms (a $6,000 value)
• $1,499 for a liposuction treatment of the love handles (a $6,000 value)

This minimally invasive technique requires local anesthesia, making it safer than full-scale surgery or the sedation-heavy career of a human cannonball.

Maison De Leumas Cosmetic Surgery Center

Dr. Milroy J. Samuel, founder of Maison De Leumas Cosmetic Surgery Center, combines his expertise in cosmetic surgery and women's health care as he lifts, sculpts, and beautifies bodies. He is joined by Dr. Yaniris R. Avellanet, a kindred professional in body cosmetic procedures. The two experts send patients' confidence soaring as high as a coffee-swigging eagle with treatments in fat removal and relocation and gynecological cosmetic procedures.

A trip to the paintball field is the only way to treat an itchy trigger finger, outside of expensive rash creams or firing a water gun carved from a cactus. Scratch the itch for vengeance with this Groupon.

$29 for a paintball package for two (a $60 total value)

• Field admission with Tippmann markers and Pure Energy HPA tanks, masks, goggles, and 200 Wrek paintballs (a $25 value/person)
• Harnesses (a $5 value/person)
• Hot-dog lunch with chips and drink, included with admission

SplatterPark

Your hands wrap around the grip of a Tippmann marker. Multicolored spheres fly past you, spattering the trees and cutting air inches from your mask. Through the foliage, you can see half a plane buried nose-first in a clearing, one of many obstacles concealing potential foes. At SplatterPark, this good-natured combat sprawls across the adrenaline-soaked turf of 12 outdoor fields and 40 wooded and open acres adjacent to a lake. Warriors battle through capture-the-flag, base-defense, and other scenarios in themed arenas with adventurous names including Fort Buckeye, Snake Pit, and Dark Forest. Each field is suited to at least three types of play, but only the regular type of physics, and shouts of camaraderie echo off paint-flecked cover such as a broken-down school bus and a wooden-slat fort. In preparing for battle, combatants strap on rental or purchased gear under covered staging shelters, happy in the knowledge that their biodegradable paint ammunition will be harmlessly washed away by the elements or bears doing community service.

The arena's surreal terrain was featured in the intense combat of Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball, a video game from Activision, but the real park caters to players of all abilities and ages. At an onsite cafe, hot dogs and burgers refuel warriors and allow them to tell if their nemeses are actually target dummies with no appetite, and the pro shop's staff bustles among markers, accessories, and spare parts.

Mounted police opt for equine transportation so that they don't have to deal with the squad car's wailing thirst for gas and justice. Harness real horsepower with this Groupon.

Choose from Three Options

• $69 for a three-hour horseback-riding adventure day camp for one (a $145 value)
• $139 for the above for two (a $290 value)
• $249 for the above for four (a $580 value)

To begin the three-hour adventure camp, riders of all skill levels and ages run through a quick 30- to 45-minute lesson on equestrian essentials, such as leading, grooming, and hoof care. The lesson also delves into a bit of horse psychology to bolster riders' understanding of how the animals see, ways in which they communicate, and whether they think My Little Pony has had a damaging effect on the self-image of equestrian youths. Next, horses and riders saunter over to the arena for a one-on-one 60-minute riding lesson to practice giving commands, navigating obstacles, and controlling the horse at different gaits. A 30- to 45-minute ride over and through the surrounding meadows and woods allows riders to demonstrate their newfound knowledge, before they trot back to the barn to indulge their new four-legged friends with a soothing grooming and bathing.

Equestrian Ridge Farm

The staff at Equestrian Ridge Farm has been tending to steeds and riders on its 200-acre estate for more than 10 years. During riding lessons in a medley of styles-including dressage, single driving, and trail riding-trainers educate equestrians of all levels at the facility's two large, indoor arenas. The barn houses between 15-20 horses at any given time, a handful of which are reserved for lessons or reenactments of chase scenes from The Lone Ranger. Equestrian Ridge also offers under-saddle training for horses by an experienced instructor who tailors each session to the steed's temperament and riding style.

Dumbbells aren't necessary to forge ripped biceps, as evidenced by the muscles Sylvester Stallone formed while throwing refrigerators at his stove. Flex your might with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

• $29 for 10 boot-camp classes (a $100 value)
• $49 for 20 boot-camp classes (a $200 value)

Boot camps are held for adults, teenage girls, and seniors in separate sessions of high-energy cardio and work with free weights or resistance bands.

Fitness by Char

Fitness by Char founder Charlotte Young has come to dedicate every day of her to life to helping adults, teens, and seniors improve their health and self-esteem. Each of her workouts blends high-intensity cardio with free weights for toning the muscles. Boot camps for teenage girls help them improve their appearance, self-confidence, and ability to crumple up cardboard cutouts of newly engaged pop stars with great ease. Senior programs, meanwhile, blend low-impact aerobics with joint-friendly resistance-band work. Most programs last 45 minutes, but Char also offers time-saving 30-minute express workouts that focus on the midsection.

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