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Dedicated spas & wellness retreats that live up to their hype
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: This is a privately-owned, peaceful and civilized health spa an hour’s drive from London with an unpretentious, holistic approach to health. It’s set in 47 pretty acres, and adjoins 700 acres of National Trust land. Your base is a gorgeous manor house which the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson rented in the 1860s, and a less attractive [...]
In short: I think Kamalaya is one of the world’s best destination spas if you’re looking for genuinely holistic programmes that take into account your whole being. It’s set beside a private lagoon at the quiet end of Koh Samui, in a fairy tale ravine strewn with granite boulders and tropical plants. Villas and thatched public spaces are [...]
