REACH FOR THE SPAS
The chlorine-free pool at One Aldwych
The need for a retreat has never been greater..
Queen of Retreats
There’s no better tried, tested and trusted selection than the collection on Queen of Retreats. Their new website has just launched with over 80 retreats encompassing healing, painting, re-energising, yoga, detoxing, pottery and so much more..
Founder of Queen of Retreats Caroline Sylger Jones has been writing about retreating as an independent journalist for over 30 years for titles including the Times, Telegraph, Independent, Condé Nast Traveller and Tatler. A published poet with a First Class BA and MA in English, Caroline especially adores retreats that pivot on creativity and finds succour in sunshine, swimming, white tea and walking by the sea. She’s a trained Iyengar yoga teacher with a daily practice, and lives in South Devon with a treasured husband, daughter and British Blue. Suffolk resident Victoria Fuller joined the Queen team as partner in the middle of lockdown 2020, after helping to build Europe’s leading PR & Marketing business for nearly 30 years and is the proud Chair of IndigoEight, the UK communications consultancy with wellbeing and sustainability at its heart. Victoria has a daily Vedic Meditation practice, which she swears has been the best thing she ever learnt, and her new favourite retreats are those that involve solo vigils in forests. She splits her time between London and Suffolk with her family and three spaniels.
One Aldwych
Whether you have just an hour, a day or an afternoon and are after some you time and pampering head over to the Health Club at One Aldwych. If you’re after a pool, gym, steam room and spa in the heart of London without being a member or a hotel guest then this is the perfect sanctuary. The spa has three treatment rooms and 18-metre indoor pool and if your treatment is an hour or more you can use all of the facilities for an hour before or after your treatment. The expert therapists will tailor a treatment for you using Spanish skincare specialists, Natura Bissé or British skincare brand, OSKIA.
Pop in for a pick-me-up facial, stop for an invigorating city stress antidote or stay for a signature body ritual and find wellbeing indulgence and utter calm in the centre of the city.
Rates from £480 per night
Devigarh
Possibly the most beautiful palace hotel in Rajasthan, certainly the most breathtaking. This is most definitely a destination spa with exceptional therapists and some amazing treatments, many of which you won’t have heard of before. The 90-minute Manipuri back treatment is sublime using warm oils and poultices. Treatment rooms twinkle in silver and the heated beds are covered in the softest, silkiest cotton you’ll ever feel. Book the Himalayan salt room for a private sauna, it’s a beautiful experience. After your treatment sip on your bespoke spa cocktail in the spa garden and contemplate life.
Spa news
Maison Talbooth the 12-room country house hotel in Essex is counting the days until their exciting new spa extension to The Treatment Rooms at the Pool House opens. Three more fabulous rooms, spa reception and chill out area ‘poolside’ will be added to the existing three rooms in the main house doubling the size of the spa which will re-open in spring 2022. The hotel has twelve individually designed bedrooms, each different in style, decor and character. All named after English poets from Shakespeare and Keats to Newbolt and Betjeman; and there’s a copy of each poets most famous poem framed in each room. The hotel lends itself to a short break for a night or two, in fact the Dedham Vale was recently mentioned in the Telegraph as one of the top places for a ‘cheeky weekend’.
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Vila Vita Parc
Vila Vita Parc Resort & Spa is an all-singing, all-dancing multi-award-winning luxury hotel just 30 minutes west of Faro airport. The team have been busy during the pandemic creating new shops including Etro, Heidi Klein and Ralph Lauren as well as launching the first Sisley Spa outside of France. At the 2021 World Spa Awards VILA VITA Spa by Sisley Paris received two accolades, one Best Signature Treatment in the World and the other Best Spa Resort in Portugal. The signature Golden Quartz Treatment has been a sell-out; it is 90 minutes long and involves warm healing quartz crystals and the healing sound of singing bowls. It’s worth noting that the therapists are just as exceptional as the Sisley products and it’s hard to beat the Manual Lymphatic Drainage massage if you’re looking for an effective immune-boosting treatment. The best spa in Portugal.
The Sisley Spa
The sensorial world of Sisley can be found at Vila Vita Parc. Housed in its own building the VILA VITA SPA is the only Sisley Spa outside Paris and offers guests a range of wellbeing therapies and beauty treatments. At the 2021 World Spa Awards VILA VITA Spa by Sisley Paris received two awards, one Best Signature Treatment in the World and the other Best Spa Resort in Portugal. The Golden Quartz Treatment, (the signature treatment) is 90 minutes long and involves warm healing quartz crystals and the healing sound of singing bowls. It’s worth noting that the therapists are just as exceptional as the Sisley products and it’s hard to beat the Manual Lymphatic Drainage massage if you’re looking for an effective immune-boosting treatment.
Room rates from EUR 215 per night including breakfast
Vila Vita Parc, Algarve
ILAPOTHECARY
Naturopathy, Homeopathy and Herbology are combined together to create the perfect synergy at Ilapothecary, a small but perfect urban oasis in London’s Kensington Church Street. Energy healing and traditional massage techniques are used in the bespoke therapies to renew and re-energise the body, mind and soul. The products are lovingly handmade in the UK.
Tel: 07342 168 395