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.