Guerlain Institute at the
Hotel Crillon, 10 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris
T: +33 1 44 71 15 00; www.crillon.com
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Four Seasons Hotel George V – Paris
31 Avenue George V, Paris
T: +33 149 52 72 10; www.fourseasons.com
This five-star hotel near the Champs Elysée has chandeliers, mirrors, lots of flowers and is very luxurious. There is a swimming pool, a gym, male and female saunas and hot tubs. This hotel is owned by HRH Prince Al Waleed BinTalal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudia Arabia.
The spa is a retreat in the vibrant heart of the city and offers a comprehensive menu of skin and body treatments and therapies. There are also saunas, whirlpools, and a pool surrounded by trompe l’oeil gardens. The spa also has private treatment rooms: a private VIP room with a whirlpool, sauna, steam bath and two massage beds, and a relaxation room with three lounge chairs and private music stations.
La Ferme de Beaute – Megeve
Les fermes de Marie, Chemin de Riante Colline, 74120 Megeve
T: +33 4 50 93 03 10 www.c-h-m.com
In the neart of the French alps, near Mont Blanc there is skiing in winter and walking in summer. The spa skin-care ranges contain extracts of Edelweiss which is reputed to have rejuvenation properties. Other therapies include hydrotherapy, whirlpools, massages, stone therapy and reflexology.
Royal Parc Better Living Institute – Evian-les-Bains
Royal Parc Better Living Institute at the Hôtel Royal
Royal Parc Evian
South Bank of Lake Geneva BP8, 74501 Evian-les-Bains Cedex
T: + 33 4 50 26 85 00; www.royalparcevian.com
In a private park of 42 acres with two hotel – the Hotel Royal and the Hotel Ermitage, are on the southern shore of Lake Geneva. Activities nearby include riding, climbing, golf and archery with skiing in winter. There are eight restaurants in the park. The Better Living Institute nearby has a range of therapies supported by doctors and dieticians. There are 13 treatment and 12 hydrotherapy rooms.
La Ferme Thermale d’Eugenie
Les Pres d’Eugenie, 40320 Eugenie-les-Bains, Landes
T: +33 5 58 05 06 07; www.michelguerard.com
In one complex there are four hotels, three restaurants and a spa, all owned by French chef Michael Guerard and situated in a pine forest outside Bordeaux in woodlands. The special house treatment is a kaolin bath which is reputed to help rheumatism, digestive problems and stress.
Hotel Martinez & Givenchy Spa – Cannes
T:+33 4 92 98 7300; www.hotel-martinez.com
An established hotel on the croisette with a spa offering facials, body wraps, hydrotherapy, reflexology and massage – all using Givenchy products.
Les Sources de Caudalie – Bordeaux
33650 Martillac
T:+33 5 57 83 82 82: www.caudalie.com
In the Bordeaux countryside this “grape” spa has a gourmet restaurant in which you are actively encouraged to drink one to two glasses of red wine daily. There are also calorie controlled menus. The Vinotherapie Spa offers a number of treatments using grape extracts including the cabernet body scrub, the sauvignon massage and a wine barrel bath.
Sofitel Thalassa Miramar
T: + 33 5 59 41 30 00; www. sofitel.com
The hotel and the fully-refurbished Thalassotherapy centre are located on the beach. There are 109 rooms, 17 suites and two non-smoking floors. The two restaurants serve gourmet and low calorie and there is a bar. There is a heated outdoor swimming pool, Thalasso therapy centre directly next to the fitness centre, sauna, hammam, beauty salon, hairdresser, healthy cooking lessons. Golf and tennis are nearby.
Thalassotherapy Institute – Biarritz
Atlanthal Hotel, 153 Boulevard des Plages, 64600 Anglet, Biarritz
T:+33 5 59 52 75 75; www.atlanthal.com
This hotel is close to the beach and the Chiberta golf course. There is a gym, outdoor pool as well as hydrotheraphy pools. Activities include watersports, tennis, horseriding, biking and hiking. Treatments available include massage, shiatsu, acupuncture, mud wraps, hydrotherapy, slimming and firming rubs, and treatments for the back. The restaurant serves special menus as well as French food.
Le Meridien Limassol Spa
PO Box 56560, CY 3308 Limassol, Cyprus
Tel: +357 25 862 000 www.lemeridien-cyprus.com
Le Meridien, set beside a 300-metre beach, has an extensive range of thalassotherapy treatments with four outdoor and three indoor seawater pools with different degrees of salinity for various health conditions. There is also an algaeotherapy centre, Turkish bath, saunas, whirlpools and two plunge pools. As well as fitness, stress management and weight control There is a jogging route, tennis courts and gym. Treatments include massage, facials, anti-cellulite, and wraps.
Just 15 kilometres from the centre of Limassol and 55 kilometres from both Larnaca and Paphos International Airports that serve Limassol the resort is close to both sleepy villages and the cosmopolitan town of Limassol, the hotel offers a complimentary shuttle bus service to and from Limassol at regular intervals.
There are 329 spacious hotel rooms, garden villas and suites. The hotel guest rooms in the main resort building are the largest in Limassol and are fully furnished in high fashion with Kenzo fabrics and wooden parquet floor and equipped with every modern hotel amenity. There are eight dining options serving both local and international cuisine.
The indoor / outdoor thalassotherapy spa, the only one of its kind in the eastern Mediterranean, features four outdoor seawater pools, each with a different salinity content and temperature, along with a hammam and two saunas as well as a heated indoor seawater pool with a negative flow section and two heated thalasso indoor pools plus an algae therapy centre with its 32 treatment rooms and four relaxing areas. Specialist consultants are available to advise guests on what treatments they should take, and special health menus are also available. The whole spa is surrounded by another free-form freshwater pool featuring waterfalls and grottoes and the largest seawater pool on the island plus an inland lagoon with a Japanese restaurant. It is an oasis for total relaxation, the ultimate in pampering and the best in therapeutic treatments.
Thalassa & Beauty Centre – Knokke-Heist
Thalassa & Beauty Centre at La Reserve
Elizabetiaan 158-169, B-8300 Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Tel:+32 50 61 06 06
La Reserve is by the sea, near the beach and on the ege of a lake. It has an indoor seawater pool, covered tennis and squash courts plus bowling golf, bicycling, horse-riding and fencing, sailing, windsurfing, volley-ball. Nearby is the Het Zwin nature reserve for birdwatching. The nearby old town of Knokke-Heist has museums, Norman churches and shops and Bruges is nearby. Treatments include thalassotherapy and fango therapies. Sauna, Turkish bath, hydrojet tub and Ayurvedic treatments.
Domaine des Haute Fagnes – Ovifat-Waimes
Rue des Charmilles 67,B-4950 Ovifat-Waimes, Belgium
Tel: +32 80 44 69 87
www.hotel2.be
The spa is situated between the Ardennes and Rhine Valley in parkland where there are many outside activities such as nature walks, tennis, volley ball, basketball, badsminton, boules, sauna, aqua gym and pool and gymnastics.
The “Thalgo” beauty centre provides face care, massages, sea weed body wraps and contour mask, physical fitness, manicure, pedicure and hair dressing. The Thalgo Club has a swimming pool, sauna, hammam (Turkish bath), gym, relaxation area and solarium. There is aquagym or “thalgoceane” hydromassage with 128 spray jets.There is a gourmet restaurant.
Mandarin Oriental, Elbow Beach
The resort is set in 50 acres which drop down to a beautiful pink sand beach on the south coast. The main building with bedrooms, restaurants and the bar is 90 years old and surrounded by pastel-coloured colonial style cottages around the grounds.
The main restaurant, The Seahorse Grill, serves fresh local fish such as lobster, favourites such as shrimp linguine. Altogether there are five restaurants.
The spa has several Ayurbevic treatments with massages, wraps and chakra balancing using ESPA products.
While you are waiting for your treatment you can lounge on the daybed on the private balcony looking out to sea and listening to the sound of birdsong.
Activities outside the hotel include scuba diving and golf.
Aman Spa – Bali
Aman Spa at the Amndari Hotel
Kedewatan, Ubud, Bali
Tel: +62 361 97 5333
www.amanresorts.com
The hotel has been built in the style of a Balinese village and sits on the edge of the Ayung River. A variety of treatments are available inlcuding massage and body treatments using local ingredients.
Rogner-Bad Blumau Hotel and Spa
Rogner-Bad Blumau Hotel & Spa
Designed by renowned architect and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, this modern hotel has a unique and unusual art-deco fascade. It is aimed at health conscious adults and has its own hot spring and a myriad of treatments from the conventional to the unconventional: water cures to massages and sound therapy.
One of the more unusual offerings is the Cleopatra Bath – a bath filled with mare’s milk. There are nine restaurants and bars The spa facilities include: indoor and outdoor thermal pools, freshwater wave pool, cold-water pools, whirlpools, indoor and outdoor saunas, sanarium with colour-light stimulation, Roman and Turkish baths, aromatherapy chamber and nudist island. There are also beauty and holistic treatments, a gym with personal and cardiovascular trainers, aerobics and spinning classes, tennis, biking, horseriding, acqua-jogging and Masai walking, using special trainers.
Contact:
A8283 Bad Blumau 100,
Austria
T: +43 3383 5100 9449 www.blumau.com
The Golf Hotel – Karnten
Situated in meadows and woodland on the shores of Lake Worth in Southern Austria. This is a serious detoxing and weight-loss clinic. The spa offers Decleor-branded beauty and detox. The medical treatments include diet detox and exercise as well as alternative therapies such as reflexology and sound and light therapies. All treatments are tailor made. A two to three week stay is recommended. It is set in the midst of the Alps with 70 bedrooms.
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Mayr Clinic
Golfstrasse 2, 9082 Maria Worth Dellach
Karnten
T. +43 4273 25110 www.golfhotel.at
Marbert Beauty Farm – Weilburgstrasse
Set in a beautiful park in heart of the Austrian city of Baden, this spa has its own spring which is used in the various sulphur bath-based treatments. There is a large indoor swimming pool, sauna, solarium, fitness room and tennis courts, bicycles, and several nearby golf courses. The city has Roman-style public thermal baths.
The treatments include facials, oil and salt wraps, massage, anti-cellulite, hand and feet treatments and waxing. There is healthy food menu in the spa, while the hotel has a gourmet restaurant.
There are fitness trainers who while create personalised programmes in the gym, while the Beauty Farm aims at weight loss, skin rejuvenation and other aesthetics. Outdoor activities nearby include hiking, horseback riding, casino gambling, tennis, and golf.
Contact
Marbert Beauty Farm at the
Grand Hotel Sauerhof, A-2500 Baden, Weilburgstrasse, Austria
Tel: +43 2252 412 510 www.sauerhof.at
The Residence
A santuary of absolute luxury in a colonial-style hotel. At the Residence you have your own private butler and you don’t even have to unpack your bags. The Residence your own private butler is at your beck and call.
Designed as a 20th century plantation house it has spectacular views of lush tropical gardens and a beautiful white sandy beach.
As far as diet concerned you can indulge or not! Afternoon tea or local fresh fruit and seafood. And a fully equipped gyme to work it all off.
As well as an opulent Santuary spa with all the facilities you would expect there are plent of activities such as water-skiing to volleyball, kayaking to tennis and scuba diving to horse riding. The fishing trips are good, too. Or, alternatively you could always lay by the pool with a long drink.
Spa treatments include massages, facials, wraps and custom-made programmes. But you really know you’re experiencing the ultimate in luxury with the La Prairie treatments.
Sofitel Imperial
T: + 230 453 8700; www.sofitel.com
Buildt like a Thai temple this large oriental hotel is set in gardens with a spa on a white sandy beach on the west coast of the island dominated by a backdrop of lofty mountain peaks. Since it is French-speaking island there is a large French clientele. The spa offers a wide range of treatments including massage and body wraps. It also claims one of Mauritius largest swimming pools! The hotel is about 50 minutes from the airport, just 30 minutes from Port Louis, and a few minutes from Flic en Flac village.
Accommodation is in 137 spacious and renovated sea-facing (ground floor) Superior and (upper floor) Deluxe rooms (50m sq), five Luxury Suites (100m sq) and a Presidential suite (with large living-room). All can accommodate three beds, and offer private bath, separate shower and wc, air-conditioning, phone, safe deposit box, radio, minibar, television/video, and hairdryer. Superior rooms have private terrace and Deluxe an extensive furnished balcony. Guests in Deluxe rooms enjoy benefits that include tea/coffee-maker, fruit on arrival, flowers in room, bathrobe, slippers and 5pm check-out.
There are four restaurants serving Creole, Mauritian, International, Indian, Chinese and Japanese cuisines, as well as buffets and seafood grills (reservation advised), Beachside grill for lunches, Piano bar by pool, Beach bar for drinks and afternoon buffet/snacks, Band for dancing, Nightly live entertainment, Evening shuttle to nearby casino, 6 shops and 24-hour room service.
There is a large swimming pool, three tennis courts (floodlit), 9-hole Pitch & Putt, Fitness centre, sauna, Sailing centre offering pedalos, kayaks, windsurfers, snorkelling, sailing, waterskiing, Archery and Table tennis.
Le Saint Géran, Belle Mare
T: +230 401 1688; www.saintgeran.com
This six star hotel is named after a nearby shipwreck and set beside a beautiful beach on a 60 acre private peninsula.The Givenchy Spa has eight treatment rooms and a wide range of facial and body treatments, including massages. There is also a hairdressing salon. The gym offers a variety of fitness programmes
Mision del Sol
Tel: +52 777 321 0999; www.misiondelsol.com
The spa is on a lowland south of Mexico City where the weather is warm year round. The spa’s signature treatment is the temazcal, a sweat bath which is said to purify body, mind and soul. Outdoors there are lots of activities to distract – kayaking, diving, cycling and hiking.
Las Ventanas al Paraiso
T: +52 624 144 0300
Las Ventanas al Paraiso combines an international menu of sophisticated spa services with a distinctly holistic approach. Indigenous treatments developed by the spa incorporate local botanicals. The highly trained therapists create a personalised spa experience for each guest. One signature treatment is the Tepezcohuite Healing wrap. The eponymous tree is indigenous to Chiapas in Mexico and is highly acclaimed for its healing powers. It is excellent for treating sunburn and dehydrated skin because it is attributed with cellular regeneration properties. The treatment involves being cocooned in a rose water and cream mixture and then being sprayed with rose mist. The ancient Ayurvedic Shirodhara treatment induces calm as warm oil is continuously poured over the forehead. This is followed by a scalp massage, a mini facial and a light massage using herbal-infused oils.
Hotel Port Palace and Wellness Centre
www.portpalace.com
T: +377 97 97 90 00
This hotel overlooks the marine and has breathtaking views. The rooms and bathrooms are enormous. The spa is known for its Cle de Peau facials and it has a high tech gym. Discreet, efficient and high quality.
Sainte Anne Resort and Spa
PO Box 388, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles.
T: 00248 292000.
The hotel consists of pavilions with Balinese-style roofs set on its own island in the middle of a national marine park. Accommodation is in lsingle-storey villas in lush, tropical gardens overlooking the Indian Ocean. All villas have DVDs, dressing rooms, outdoor showers and luxurious bathrooms. In your room there is a fold-down ironing board and iron and daily plates of fresh fruit delivered to your room.
Delicious gourmet food is available in two restaurants, with plenty of fresh fish, tropical produce and good, friendly service. The Mont Fleuris restaurant is perched on its own tiny cove, where you can watch miniature crabs running across the white powder sand.
The Clarins spa has three treatment rooms overlooking tropical gardens. It has two large, marbled steam rooms and saunas (separate for men and women) and a fan-shaped pool with decked area and lounges, bordered by tropical plants.
The signature treatment is the Clarins Top-To-Toe (one-and-a-quarter hours) is a hydrating facial followed by a fabulously relaxing one-hour body massage to combat stress, cellulite and water retention.
Termas Marinas Castelar – Cantabria
Hotel Castelar, Castelar 25, 39004 Santander, Cantabria
T: +34 942 225 2000; www.grupocastelar.com