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The Best Spots to Beat the Heat during a New Orleans Summer

07:00 August 17, 2023
By: Kaitlin Lowe
This year's summer heat has been brutal in New Orleans with high heat indexes daily! Although it seems we've exhausted every option to stay cool, we must find creative ways to beat the heat and leave no stone unturned!


While some may make the trip to their favorite beach, there are plenty of ways to escape the 90+ weather. Air conditioning, fantastic sno-balls, and frozen cocktails are most of the city's go-to options for a much needed cooldown, but sometimes even that's not enough! Luckily, we're in the fabulous city of New Orleans where we've cracked the code for fun and relaxation in any fare.

The Best Spots to Beat the Heat during a New Orleans Summer

IV Lounge New Orleans

519 Wilkinsons St., 504-302-1056, ivloungenola.com

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The IV Lounge offers a variety of boutique health treatments that will cure even the worst hangovers. Hydration is transformed into luxury at the IV Lounge. Services include IV therapies, weight loss, massages, facials, and waxing in the heart of the French Quarter. You can relax with your friends and hangout in their private lounge. When in dire need, the IV lounge can even come to you.

The IV Lounge offers plenty of different types of IV. Different formulas include different boosters, such as hydration, anti-inflammatory, anti nausea, energy boost, mood boost, fat burning, and more. Get ready to relax and rejuvenate at the IV lounge.

Vive Hydration

Multiple Locations, 504-619-8483, viveiv.com

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Need to stop the hangover? Vive has the power to revive you even on your worst day. Their many locations offer services such as the recovery infusion, which incorporates perscription medication to relieve all your hangover symptoms. Other treatments include vitamin infusions, beauty and wellness, energy and wellness infusion, and much more.

Vive also offers different options for memberships and events. For weddings, they offer special deals for large parties that offer treatments at no cost for the bride and groom while making them feel fantastic on their big day.

Covery Wellness Spa

4712 Magazine St., 504-522-6300, thecovery.com

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The Covery Wellness Spa is your dream destination for comprehensive, immersive wellness. This is the center for evolved self care and hydration to the fullest extent. They offer endless therapy techniques to allow you to reach your best self such as IV therapy, heat therapy, salt therapy, EMS, guided meditation, facials, body sculpting, and so much more.

The Covery has the goal of helping the community achieve their mid and body wellness goals with the level of service and affordability to fit any lifestyle. If you're unsure which one of their endless amounts of treatments is right for you, just give The Covery team a call.

Natural Elements IV Spa

1029 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, 504-321-4625, naturalelements.no.com

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Having a hangover or a migraine can be the worst thing, especially when you have a big day ahead of you. Natural Elements IV Spa has the cure you need, as their treatments can rid your hangover, migraine, and more in under an hour. Other treatments they over include wellness and performance therapy. At Natural Elements, they believe that this technique is the fastest way to deliver fluid replacement for dehydration and alter your body's mineral imbalances with medicine and vitamins. Other services that Natural Elements offers include massages, nutritional consultations, and hormone replacement therapy.

The Remedy Room

200 Metairie Rd, 504-386-3851, theremedyroom.com

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The Remedy Room is an innovative wellness clinic that focuses in on preventative wellness and optimal nutrition. Here, you can feel better faster, for whatever reason that may be. They have a long list of available services, including IV therapies, injections, sexual wellness treatments, biohacking, medical marijuana, high dose vitamin C treatment, and plenty more.

The Remedy Room also can help treat you pre and post surgery. You also have the option to have the remedy room come to your home, as they offer house calls. The Remedy Room offers over 70 cumulative years of medical experience with IV therapy and integrative medicine.

NOLA Chill

6045 Magazine St., 504-381-4207, nolachill.com

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NOLA Chill is one of the best spot around the city to chill out, as they specialize in cryotherapy and wellness. Relax, recover, and rejuvenate with special treatments. Indulge in all the best massages, sauna treatments, facials, and more.

Their top-notch technology provides top-notch recovery. Treatments such as cyrofacials, cyroslim and focuse cyrotherapy are specialized treatments that focus on your areas that need improvement and treat effectively. Try other treatments such as compressions and "NuCalm" which features on sleep improvements.

Hydreight NOLA

Multiple Locations, 504-407-5191, hydreight.com.business.site

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Hydreight NOLA is a mobile health and wellness consultant that can assist with your health needs almost instantly. You can book an appointment through their app for a house call, or call for a consultation for them to concoct a perfect IV fluid concoction that will best fit your needs.

With Hydreight NOLA, you can reap the benefits of better absorption, detoxification, immune system boost, cancer treatment support, collagen production, and more. All of their practitioners are experienced, licensed, and are ready to cater to your wellness needs.

Fleur de Lis Aesthetics & Concierge

1615 Poydras St. Suite 1255, fdlaesthetics.com

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Beating the heat at its best includes a high dose of relaxation. FDL Aesthetics offers medical aesthetic services in the heart of New Orleans. They offer consultations to identify which treatments will best suit you. Everything they offer is tailored to your specialized needs. At FDL Aesthetics, they know skin, which is why specialized skincare treatments are the perfect way to keep your skin feeling fresh during this hot summer months. Their non-surgical body sculpting can assist in various areas, such as with core strength, wrinkles, weight loss, and more. Notably, they also offer payment plans and product for purchase.

Total Body Energy

3801 Houma Blvd, 504-455-1363, totalboyenergy.com

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Total Body Energy focuses on its' three core values: health, hydration, and happiness. Experience all the ways that hydration and IV therapy can assist with your dehydration, jet lag and travel fatigue, illness or flu recovery, athletic performance, hangovers, weight-management, stress-management, and more.

Your worst worries will be gone in a blink, as your relaxing infusion won't take as long as 45 minutes. First time client will sit down for a 30 minute consultation where their needs will be assessed.

More Summer Fun in New Orleans

While luxurious treatments and hydration may be the bet way to beat the heat for some, we understand that others may want to enjoy some summer fun. For instance, there are plenty of pools you can take a dip in throughout the city. Staying cool is a challenge us New Orleanians have to face every year, but with so many options for activities throughout our beloved city, we can still enjoy our Summer to the fullest extent. Remember to relax, hydrate, and enjoy yourself this August.

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