Antidotes to our world
Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman offers 3, 5 and 7 night wellbeing breaks dedicated to adventure, fitness, detoxing or slow living. You can book one or ask Six Senses a direct question using the form at the end of this post. To help you decide if you want to attend, The Queen of Retreats is [...]
Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman offers 3, 5 and 7 night wellbeing breaks dedicated to adventure, fitness, detoxing or slow living. You can book one or ask Six Senses a direct question using the form at the end of this post. To help you decide if you want to attend, The Queen of Retreats is [...]
Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman offers 3, 5 and 7 night wellbeing breaks dedicated to adventure, fitness, detoxing or slow living. You can book one or ask Six Senses a direct question using the form at the end of this post. To help you decide if you want to attend, The Queen of Retreats [...]
‘I awake about 10 am Zighy Bay time (5am UK time) to a slant of sun coming onto my huge bed and the delicious feeling that I don’t have to get up for work, my baby or anything else. The resort sets its clocks an hour ahead of everyone else in the United Arab Emirates [...]
Are luxury spas worth saving for? To help you decide the Queen of Retreats shares her diary of her stay at Six Senses Zighy Bay. ‘We touch down at 8 am UAE time, six hours ahead of UK time. My 5 night Sense of Adventure deal includes a private transfer, so after enduring a six-hour [...]
I’ve always been rather partial to the Six Senses spa resorts – their trademark ‘barefoot luxury’ is very appealing. They choose rather remote locations and build little eco villages from scratch on them, all so that you can walk around barefoot without the risk of stepping on anything you wouldn’t want to. I got engaged [...]
In short: For romantics and comfort lovers, this 17th century Cotswold stone house is set in the quiet village of Barnsley, and is the former home of garden designer Rosemary Verey . It’s surrounded by her serene and pretty gardens, and has a thoroughly modern and beautifully quiet spa in the grounds with an outdoor hydrotherapy pool. [...]
Yes please, book me onto one of these. Talented and personable style and image consultant Maggie Macmillan will run pampering makeover weekends this April and September at Grayshott Spa in Surrey. Find out what clothes are right for your body shape, learn how to detox your wardrobe, create a capsule and holiday wardrobe and adapt [...]
In short: Tilton House is a large and lovely white-painted Georgian house set at the foot of the South Downs National Park. It offers a range of creative and holistic breaks during the weekends, and relaxing B&B and self catering during the week. It’s the former home of economist John Maynard Keynes and his Russian ballerina wife, [...]
In short: The Scarlet is a refreshingly different, rather fun and totally unpretentious place to relax that offers dedicated 3 night, 4 day wellbeing escapes throughout the year as well as gorgeously indulgent stays. It was built by three sisters as an adults-only retreat where, as one of them told me, ‘we could take our husbands to [...]
