As the UK country hotel scene innovates and evolves at high speed, spas are very much keeping the same pace. You can’t move these days for not just new spas opening but also, and perhaps more importantly, the classics giving themselves a little dust off and shake up. Out of a flurry of redecoration and reconsideration of their offerings (from product lines to sustainability efforts) comes an invigorated generation of places to escape to for rest, for relaxation, for rejuvenation.
Local ingredients (some plucked straight from the kitchen gardens) now headline the treatment menus as well as the restaurant menus. Therapists are highly trained but also listen and are not afraid to go off-piste anymore. Visiting practitioners drop in, retreats are a regular occurrence and collaborations are getting more and more interesting.
It is a holistic approach that makes these wellbeing addresses sing. Here is our fresh pick of the best spa hotels in the south of England . Every hotel in this curated list has been visited by one of our expert reviewers, who are usually hosted on a complimentary basis.
They stay for a minimum of one night, test at least one meal and trial other experiences that the hotel might have to offer. The best spa hotels in the north of England Britain's most romantic spa breaks The best spa hotels in Europe 50 of the world's most incredible spa breaks The world's best hotels for spa breaks The best spa hotels in London for a city break The best spa hotels in the Lake District The best spa hotels in the Cotswolds 10 brilliant spa hotels on the Cornish coast The best spa hotels in Ireland The best spa hotels in the New Forest The best spa hotels in Scotland The best spa hotels in and around Bath Contributions by Jade Conroy, Rachel Cranshaw, Kathryn Liston, Fiona Duncan, Harriet O'Brien, Natalie Paris, Emma Love, Fred Mawer & Harriet Jones.
