Pack your chicest activewear for the spa launch of the year.
Melding “high-tech” with “high-touch”, the Six Senses Spa offers
tailored experiences based around you. Spanning some 1,200sq m, the
space includes a steam room, caldarium hot bath, hammam,
state-of-the-art fitness area, seafront yoga deck, outdoor boxing
ring, relaxation room and more. For those revellers taking five on
the White Isle, the After Party Detox package (great after a night
drinking at The Beach Caves) is a (heaven-sent) 90-minute
re-energiser. Beginning with a tangy citrus body scrub, a
stimulating full-body massage follows, “paying special attention to
tired dancing feet”. The treatment is rounded off with a soothing
facial massage.

Opened last year, One&Only Portonovi sits gracefully at the
entrance of the Bay of Kotor. While we could wax lyrical about the
hotel’s umpteen wowing elements, the pioneering wellness centre by
Chenot takes top prize, with 28 treatment rooms dedicated to
high-spec, high-tech wellbeing wizardry. A curated programme of
treatments includes everything from hydro-colon flushes and
cryotherapy to IV drips. Short on time? Sign up for a two-day
package; otherwise, the four-day De-stress and Recharge offering is
our programme of choice. Resort guests have complimentary access to
the indoor pool, steam room, sauna and relaxation pavilion, but
you’ll need to book any additional programmes.

The Yucatán is a mesmeric place. Naturally beautiful and with an
air of mysticism, it’s easy to feel connected here. Those looking
for a place to base themselves where good vibes are guaranteed
should look to Chablé Yucatán, a five-star property composed of 38
luxurious stand-alone pool casitas. A beautiful cenote lies at the
resort’s centre, with 12 wooden cabins (where spa treatments take
place) floating just above, reachable via a vegetation-laden
staircase. At the base is a wooden deck on which daily meditation
and yoga sessions are held. From hydrotherapy to wellness retreats,
or “journeys”, there’s a lot to occupy your time while here. The
Mayan Renewal Ceremony, where you “tune into the cosmic vibrations
of the inner self”, is a particularly powerful and healing
experience.

When this wave-splashed sanctuary on Portugal’s surfing coast
opened in July, we were first in line to experience its
nature-first proposal. Developed with the belief that wellness can
sit in everything, Immerso promises to be not so much a spa break
as a step-change in your lifestyle. Sure, there’s a spa – complete
with sauna, steam and sensory baths, hot-stone treatments and gym –
but staff will always be ushering you beyond the door to explore
the rugged surrounding landscape, on nature-based yoga sessions,
biking tours and surf sessions. The 37 airy, sea breeze-swirled
rooms are a tonic in themselves, dressed in raw wood, soft marine
hues and bleached-seashell-coloured walls.

This woodland compound in Austria marries salubrious practices
with medical prowess. “Naturopathy” and “modern medicine” are words
you’ll hear frequently, murmured down minimalist corridors. Here,
the emphasis is on intense detoxification (from colon cleansing to
lymphatic draining). Whether your ailments are desk-related or you
suffer from digestive issues, the medical consultation on day one
will get down to the nitty-gritty and set about resetting your mind
and body throughout a week or 10-day stay. As intense as the
programme reads (and it’s not to be entered lightly), it’s evened
out with plenty of spa time, while meal plans are toothsome (if
modest) and keep hungry tums content. Londoners can also access
Lanserhof’s cutting-edge medical health and wellness services at
Lanserhof at The Arts Club in W1S.

Luxury resort and spa Amanemu (one of our favourites in the
hotelier’s roster) is situated three hours by train from Kyoto.
Ryokan-inspired, the retreat is surrounded by Unesco-listed pilgrim
trails and sacred forests, making for an ultra-Zen wellness
experience. Built (and designed) around a vast hot spring, the spa
takes a holistic approach, with treatments spanning hot-stone
therapies to signature facials and reiki. While the outdoor
swimming pool is understandably alluring, the yoga studio and a
quartet of treatment suites fringed by forest will beckon any
bathing beauty out of the water. Meals spotlight the region’s
izakaya-style seafood offerings and, come lunchtime, bento boxes of
sashimi and tempura are coveted commodities.