“At half past three everything stops for tea,” the old song goes and quite right too. It’s a lovely, comforting ritual easily included in your London spa break, first introduced by the Duchess of Bedford in the early 1800s. Here are our top 10 spa breaks for afternoon tea… The Marylebone Hotel, Marylebone Maybe, just […]

Do you know your rocket from your radicchio? Is over cooked meat anathema? For those of us who seek new culinary experiences as part of our spa break, here are 10 spas and spa hotels for foodies.

1.     Sun While the sunshine is great for our tans, it also has health benefits. The sun provides us with vitamin D, and this sunshine vitamin helps us to absorb calcium, keeping our bones healthy.  So a winter sun spa break is the perfect excuse to top up your tan and your vitamin D… it […]

Don’t be fooled into thinking you have to travel to the other side of the world for a little winter sun! With spectacular holiday locations in Sicily, Malta, Morocco and Madeira, here are six of our top winter sun spa destinations in Europe.

Zanzibar always seems like something out of a storybook - a magical island of white beaches and five star hotels. Well, you don’t need to believe in fairytales to enjoy that kind of fantasy. Here’s where to spa in Zanzibar…

At this year’s Oscars of the spa world, aka the Irish Tatler Spa awards, Slieve Donard Resort and Spa’s Shona Fitzsimmons won Therapist of the Year. We caught up with her to find out what makes an award-winning therapist… How long have you been at Slieve Donard? I joined the spa when it first opened […]

There’s never a bad time to indulge in a little luxury, so we’ve put together our top 10 luxury spas for September spa break…

Martel Maxwell talks about landing her dream presenting role with BBC1’s Homes Under The Hammer and her body confidence during a period of four action-packed years of three pregnancies

Tension taming and deeply nurturing, Druids Glen Hotel and Golf Resort talks about their Elemis Poultice Powered Muscle Release - an award-winning spa treatment that made waves at this year’s Irish Tatler Awards using an amber and quartz poultice to dissolve knots.

The word on every spa goers lips is ‘Ireland’ this year, with award winning variety and excellent standards in beautiful locations, and a wealth of new options joining Spabreaks.com. Here are 10 of our new spas in Ireland you have to visit…