Need to get away from it all? We know THAT feeling well, especially at this time of year! Our Luxury PR Team have picked their top 10 favourite luxury spa’s in easy reach of London and perfect for a weekend pamper break in the countryside (Well, some of us really do have to work on a Monday!).
The Vineyard, Berkshire
If you love wine, then The Vineyard Hotel is a good start. If you’re looking for a spa experience on top, then The Vineyard 5 Star Spa could be the perfect destination for a weekend away from the capital. Boasting over 30,000 bottles in their cellars and 100 wines to taste and enjoy by the glass, wind down after a day of pampering with a glass or two. Well, you are on holiday (kind of).
Time Travel To Paradise: 50 Minutes By Train From Paddington
The Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire
Choose from a fabulous array of handpicked spa packages already tailored for your needs. Personally, we love this. We’re exhausted and we don’t want to waste valuable brain power on working out budgets and options, so thank-you, Grove Hotel Spa for making it easy. A personal favourite amongst our luxury PR team!
Time Travel To Relaxation: 57 minutes from Euston
Eden Spa, Down Hall Country Hotel, Surrey
Set in acres of beautiful woodland, landscaped gardens and parkland, this gorgeous hotel is the perfect getaway to unwind and recharge. Their Eden Spa offers a range of indulgent treatments and a hydrotherapy pool and steam room.
Time Travel To Unwind; 45 minutes from Liverpool Street
Cliveden House Hotel, Berkshire
Looking for a relaxing break with the kids in tow? Clivedon House Hotel allow kids under the age of 12 to come along for free during school holidays. The Spa offer a range of amazing treatments including using their own collection of beauty products to send you blissfully into a relaxing state of mind while the kids discover the historic Cliveden Maze or their all natural woodland play trail.
Travel Time To Family Time: 40 mins from Paddington
Ockenden Manor, West Sussex
Whatever the time of year you decide to visit this historic Elizabethan Manor House, their Spa offers a gorgeous contemporary space to rest and recoup. We love the walk-through rainforest shower, fed by their very own natural underground spring.
Travel Time To Rest & Recoup: 55 Minutes From Victoria
Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa, Surrey
With award-winning facilities and indoor and outdoor pools, the Spa at Pennyhill Park Hotel has an array of sensory and thermal experiences for you to enjoy during your stay. From massage, wraps and body scrubs through to relaxing massages and manicures, you’ll be feeling (and looking) marvellous, from head to toe.
Time Travel To Feeling Fabulous: 1 hour & 20 minutes from Waterloo
Champneys Forest Mere, Hampshire
This secluded lakeside resort is the perfect get-away for burnt out city folk looking to zone out in a peaceful, idyllic space and enjoy a vast range of spa treatments. You can even escape for an evening spa experience at this Spa making it the ideal destination for that Friday night ‘indulge in me’ fix, ready to kick start your weekend on Saturday.
Time Travel To Peace & Pampering: 1 hour & 20 minutes from Waterloo
Alexander Hotel & Utopia Spa, West Sussex
Kick back and enjoy the award-winning Utopia Spa. With a range of fabulous treatments from Swedish massage through to face therapy treatments (hey, let’s not forget all that pollution and damaging free radicals our faces encounter day to day). Time to chill out with friends or your partner.
Time Travel To Award Winning Luxury: 55 minutes from Victoria
Dormy House, Cotswolds
The Dormy House Hotel & Spa is just the place to take time out to eat, sleep and spa in luxury. We love the lit candles that set the mood in the beautiful bathing room through to soaking in a lavender-infused sauna or basking in the juniper-laced dry heat of their Finnish cabin. And don’t even get us started on the charming farmhouse décor that makes you feel at home (well, the kind of home our luxury PR team would love to live in).
Time Travel To Charm: 2 hours & 40 minutes from Paddington
Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa, Cotswolds
Set in 12 acres of gardens, this hotel and Aquarias Spa is your retreat to heavenly treatments and a chance to unwind in beautiful surroundings. And if the grim of the city has left its mark, their Salt Scrub and Experience Showers offer an invigorating and cleansing experience.
Time Travel To Blissful Surroundings: 2 hours from Paddington