Sometimes you just need to spend the weekend in a bucolic hotel where you will be cared for, top-to-toe. At these top UK spa hotels, magnesium-filled lazy lakes, highly relaxing ways to relieve muscle tension, all kinds of facials, inviting canopy beds and mouthwatering food are all on offer. This article contains affiliate links that can earn us revenue Estelle Manor There is a lot to get excited about with this hotel-cum-members club in Oxfordshire: 108 immaculately designed rooms, four restaurants (including a luxurious Chinese option, serving arguably the best roast duck outside of Soho), padel courts and an Instagram-worthy outdoor pool.
But it’s the spa, Eynsham Baths, that has really secured Estelle Manor’s spot as one of the must-visit hotels in the UK. A short walk from the main house, surrounded by towering trees, Estelle’s spa is modelled on Roman bathhouses both in its design and concept, encouraging communal bathing (but don’t panic: numbers are capped so things don’t get too cosy) within its grand marble walls. Once inside, your “thermal journey” is up to you, but discreet signs chiselled into the stone indicate circuits through the various pools and rooms including the tepidarium (a large, bath-temperature pool), cold plunge pools, spacious sauna and eucalyptus-scented steam room.
If you want guidance, your personally assigned spa butler will be within shouting distance to suggest your next move..