Michelin Star dining, Hollywood fitness, wellbeing inspired by Chinese medicine and one of the most fashionable locations in London? Mandarin Oriental London is a hotel that represents the height of luxury spa breaks on any day of the week, but their new spa experiences take the concept to entirely new heights. So, what’s new?
These wellness retreat days are spa breaks like you’ve never seen them before. At more than £1,000 per person, each luxury spa break is jam packed with experiences that you won’t find anywhere else.
Alongside two hours using the spa facilities, this beautiful wellness experience includes a phenomenal 120 minutes of treatment time.
The spa’s treatment expertise is well known, with the menu featuring Swiss anti-aging leaders Nescens offering cosmeceutical and therapeutic face and body treatments and best of French beauty expertise from market leader Biologique Recherche offering personalised skin care. The extensive menu also combines Mandarin Oriental’s own signature therapies and the best of British natural treatments from OSKIA and Aromatherapy Associates.
In addition, there’s time for a full body array of health and fitness:
Start with breakfast, which includes choices of delicious smoothies - we’re partial to the ‘Gorgeous Green’ option including spinach, apple, broccoli, ginger, mint, parsley, spirulina, banana, wheatgrass, barley grass and chlorella. Their coconut and chia pudding is a treat, and the ‘Healthy Benedict’ will change your life. There’s also a mid-morning ‘Healthy Refuel’, a wellness lunch and a healthy dinner included. There’s no shortage of herbal teas and juices either.
Finally, before you leave, there’s the chance to meet the Spa & Wellness Director - which is a distinct privilege.
Much like the Move & Reset One Day Retreat, the Inner Strength Outer Strength One Day Retreat also includes two hours using the spa facilities, but your time is very much taken up with an extraordinarily decadent array of therapies.
Top of the list is their Mandarin Oriental Harmony a.k.a, a four-handed massage. This is where four hands work in perfect unison in a remarkable experience that inspires a harmony of the senses, two therapists work together in time and movement. First providing a warm scrub that soothes the skin and later a harmonious massage that balances the body.
Other spa experiences include a 45-minute VISIA skin consultation. This provides analysis of eight different skin conditions using multi-spectral lighting and a patented peer-group comparison algorithm. During the skin consultation the VISIA can determine the TruSkin Age™ compared to the real age of the skin. The consultation is followed by a 90-minute Biologique Recherche facial to suit your needs.
Then starting work from the inside out, you have a 90-minute Nutritionist Consultation, which teams well with your full day of food and drink, including:
The day is complete with a power walk or jog around Hyde Park with British Military Fitness to make sure you leave feeling a total sense of wellness - and get a little bit of London sightseeing in as well!
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