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Hotly-debated, and regularly updated, here's our current Top 5 places to go for the day.
KuBu Spa, Henley on Thames
This beautifully calm, cool treatment-room spa in Henley on Thames is a Balinese temple to spa-ing, and takes a whole lifestyle approach to beauty and wellbeing. They use 100% organic massage oils made specially for them in Bali, and the organic Lavera product range, so it's a perfect place for anyone looking for safe, natural treatments.
Faultlessly clean, spacious, luxurious and welcoming, their attention to detail is what really makes your experience extra special - from the perfect rose petals strewn in your footbath to the handmade chocolates and delicious, natural herbal tea.
We recommend their signature treatments: three hours of really indulgence and expertly delivered full-body massage, scrub and bath, with lots of different phases that make three hours feel like a whole day.
Read our full review of KuBu Spa
Body Experience, Richmond
This new spa in Surrey comes up flawless time after time. Themed throughout in a cool purple, and offering an interesting and broad range of branded therapies, these treatment rooms specialise in some unusual Australian treatments including a Kiradjee massage and a signature treatment based on Aboriginal Dreamtime. They also offer some great packages.
Read our full review of Body Experience
Elemis, Mayfair
This "sensory heaven" lies right in the heart of London and offers an exotic sanctum that just oozes pamper. Treatments and decor are themed on different countries of the world, from Bali to Morocco. Smooth lighting, attention to detail as well as professional therapists and delicious products make this a dependably gorgeous, dreamy treat.
Read our full review of Elemis
Forum Spa, Celtic Manor, Wales
Take a full suite of pools and steam rooms, all lit to soothe and sparkle; add professional, customer-focused therapists, imaginative, body-nurturing treatments and even child-care facilities and you really have a perfect day out.
Read our full review of Celtic Manor
One Spa, Edinburgh
Oh, this place is transcendental in its pleasure fields. First you float around the amazing suite of heat treatment rooms, pools and relaxation areas, then recline on the steel beds in the heated rooftop hydrotherapy pool.
Then the best part: the spa. In the relaxation room, no-one will speak to you in anything other than a whisper, and you will be guided to and from your treatments as though you are ancient royalty. And the therapists and the treatments are extraordinary. Glide out in the evening to beautiful Edinburgh, and the "mmmm" of your day will last for weeks.
Read our full review of One Spa
Pennyhill Park, Surrey
The spa facilities here are extraordinary and only matched by the surroundings and accommodation you'll find here. Pennyhill is just the perfect place to go to very deeply and completely relax: from the glassy ballroom pool to the lush gardens to your unique Aboriginal treatments, you float around in a place so graceful that you feel graceful too just by being there.
Huge range of treatments, excellent customer care... why did we leave?
Read our full review of Pennyhill Park
Bovey Castle, Dartmoor
Easy glamour, decadence, beauty and activities await at this extraordinary mansion-house hotel.
Nestled among tiny verdant country lanes, scented with flowers and buzzing with dragonflies, you feel nostalgic about your visit even as you're having it. Spend a few days being treated as though you're a very respected old friend of the family.
Everything, and we mean everything, from falconry to paragliding via golf, croquet and cider-making, is available, plus a great kids' club, so they have somewhere to go whilst you are spa-ed by highly professional, friendly staff.
Read our full review of Bovey Castle.
Mandarin Oriental, London
The Mandarin Oriental Hotels across the world are used to soothing the cosmopolitan wealthy of all nationalities, so you can arrive confident that they will know how to really treat you. Elegant, stylish and unpretentious, everything is perfect.
The spa facilities are secluded, luxurious and cool. The therapists are so gentle that you hardly even notice they're there, even as you're receiving your treatment... we want to live there.
Read our full review of the Mandarin Oriental
Ragdale Hall Health Hydro, Leicestershire
One of the original spa retreats is still undeniably the best. Spend days in your robe, drifting from one spacious, airy, perfectly maintained, country-house style room to the next.
With a huge array of treatments and professionalism you can count on, this place is hard to beat. The perfect place for anyone who wants to know "what this spa-thing is all about" and for the person who's been researching it for years.
Read our full review of Ragdale
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