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To ask - what’s the best spa hotel you’ve ever been to?

79 replies

MyWaryLimePoster · 26/02/2025 21:21

I’m looking for a truly great spa experience, whether in the UK or abroad. I’d love to hear about places with amazing facilities, top-tier treatments, and a really relaxing atmosphere. Bonus points if it’s solo-traveller friendly!

Where would you recommend, and what made it stand out?

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WGACA · 26/02/2025 22:47

Ragdale

JingsMahBucket · 26/02/2025 22:52

IDontLikePinaColadas · 26/02/2025 22:02

Another no to Champneys from me - really unimpressed (although this was about 10 years ago tbf).

This is one I went to a few years ago and it was heavenly - https://www.thalasso-saintmalo.com/fr/ - took the ferry over to St Malo from Portsmouth.

This looks beautiful. Thanks for reminding that I’ve wanted to visit St. Malo. I’ll add it
to my list for next year.

whatnooow · 26/02/2025 22:54

Bananas85 · 26/02/2025 22:07

Woodland spa is amazing and it's just had an extension so has a hydrotherapy pool, a vitality pool, serenity pool, rooftop spa, 3 outdoor hot tubs, an outdoor swimming pool and then a number of saunas, steam rooms and an ice room. Even has a mezzanine with comfy beds where you can sleep.

The woodland is fantastic!

We tend to stay over night and have dinner in Wilfred's restaurant and it's the best food we've had. And the breakfast is amazing.

I'm off to book a spa break now.

Christmassy24 · 26/02/2025 22:56

Carden Park near Chester. They have expanded and built a huge new spa facility its lush.

Futb · 26/02/2025 22:58

Pyjamatimenow · 26/02/2025 22:24

Really? We went last summer and were underwhelmed. The view is nice but that’s were the positives ended. There wasn’t enough beds around the pool. There was one very young boy behind the bar and we spent most of our slot queuing for drinks. We ordered a charcuterie board and they brought it but they’d run out of crackers and hummus. We even stayed in their best suite above the spa as it was a big birthday and it was a boiling hot room with no air.

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Yeah really. I obviously can’t afford the more luxury ones mentioned on here 😂

PoppityBoo · 26/02/2025 23:00

Ragdale hall for me, although it’s completely spoiled me to go anywhere else now, and I can’t afford to go since the cost of living crisis!

Pyjamatimenow · 26/02/2025 23:05

@Futb Lodore is in a similar price bracket to those mentioned here. I’ve been to far cheaper and had a better experience.

Christmas12345 · 26/02/2025 23:07

Galgorm near Belfast

MerelyPlaying · 26/02/2025 23:08

Ragdale Hall - great facilities but it’s the service level that makes it so special. You really feel special.

flumposie · 26/02/2025 23:08

I live near Rudding Park, Harrogate and happily go on my own. Same for Centre Parcs at Sherwood.

timetodecide2345 · 26/02/2025 23:09

Estonia. If carlsberg made spas! Seriously on another level!

Wincher · 26/02/2025 23:12

Another vote for The Scarlet in Cornwall. But quite a couply (adult only) hotel so not sure how it would work for a solo traveller

EnoughNow2023 · 26/02/2025 23:14

Nirvana spa is the best spa I've been to. It's currently a day spa but they are opening a hotel in the spring

HhalloNine · 26/02/2025 23:15

Grantley Hall near Ripon, pure luxury.

Lewis Hamilton was there too!

Middleton Lodge is also lovely.

Not luxury, but function, cost and range, Therme 2000, near Maastricht. A selection of different saunas (central wood burner, menthol, rise based etc, in large cabins, in the grounds. Beds to lay outside (naked) in the rain, the most amazing experience ever.

imtiredandiwanttogotobed · 26/02/2025 23:16

Vickyvogue25 · 26/02/2025 22:39

This year I'm planning to try out the Crescent at Buxton but stay for a couple of nights rather than just a day.

A friend spent a few nights there recently and said it was amazing, she has been to Rudding Park and Hoar Cross with me but felt the Crescent was much more exclusive, without the commercial focus most others have.

I enjoyed Rudding Park, and have done Ragdale and Champneys in the past, still prefer Hoar Cross although I admit it isn’t as good as when I first started going 20+ yrs ago. The woodland spa is also on our agenda!

I have recently stayed at The Crescent and would second this, clean, immaculate and really beautiful.

augustusglupe · 26/02/2025 23:16

Another for Ragdale.

imtiredandiwanttogotobed · 26/02/2025 23:17

Langdale Hotel and spa near Ambleside is gorgeous

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 26/02/2025 23:20

Woodland Spa, Burnley. Fabulous.

Justsomethoughts23 · 26/02/2025 23:30

Gleneagles

Justsomethoughts23 · 26/02/2025 23:31

Schloss Roxburgh

Violetmarmalade · 27/02/2025 00:28

Roger Bad Blumau in Austria, designed by Hundertwasser, an amazing architect who designed quirky yet beautiful buildings all over the world (including some incredible public toilets in New Zealand). It’s not that easy to get to but worth a trip - the sauna and spa areas are open till late in the evening and you can’t beat floating in the thermal waters surrounded by stars and waterside braziers in their huge pools https://www.blumau.com/en.html

SALaw · 27/02/2025 00:38

Gleneagles

WillaDeWord · 27/02/2025 00:45

Das Tegernsee. Breakfast at the lakeside and gorgeous scenery - even from the sauna. I try to go at least once every 18 months.

BruisedNeckMeat · 27/02/2025 08:15

The spa hotel at the Blue Lagoon in Reykjavik.

WGACA · 27/02/2025 08:54

PoppityBoo · 26/02/2025 23:00

Ragdale hall for me, although it’s completely spoiled me to go anywhere else now, and I can’t afford to go since the cost of living crisis!

I know what you mean about not being able to go anywhere else once you've been there. We have a savings account and save all year round. It is eye wateringly expensive.