Welcome to Spa Holidays

Whether you would like a spa which uses your favourite range of products, a unique signature treatment to the local area or a particular therapy, we can take you there. In addition, we have introduced some pre-bookable packages offering excellent value for money to make your stay unforgettable.

One of the great changes to travel and holidays over the last ten years has been the rise of the Spa. Up until then the odd resort would offer a facial, manicure or pedicure in the attached hairdressing or beauty salon. The more daring offered a massage – either a sports one, or a Swedish job – both very similar, which always took place in a small dark room in the bowels of the hotel, and invariably somewhere near the swimming pool to ensure the scent of chlorine permeated the air.

How times have changed. These days resorts and hotels are proud of their spas and indeed they are one of the major attractions when any guest is booking a holiday. No longer in a dank room, these are opulent pleasure palaces, swathed in linens and muslins, decorated in silks and satins, with the sweet smell of frangipani and jasmine permeating the atmosphere. A whole new genre of music has grown up around them too from Tibetan chants, to the sound of crashing waves and from the wind whistling through trees to the haunting sounds of Aeolian harps. Indeed today’s traveller is a sophisticated animal who knows what he or she needs on a holiday – and that includes a full service spa, which offers therapies and treatments from all over the world. You may well be in Tenerife but that does not stop you from wanting many of the therapies of the east. Witness the newly refurbed Oriental Spa at the Hotel Botanico or the amazing thalassotherapy treatments on offer all along the French Atlantic coast through to Mardavall in Majorca and the Elounda Mare in Crete. These days the spa user knows the difference between a Swedish, a shiatsu and a lomi lomi massage – and demands the choice. (For those not that au fait with spaspeak, a Swedish is a deep tissue massage, a shiatsu is a Japanese type which works with the energy channels while a lomi lomi hails from Polynesia and includes a number of strokes using the elbows as well as the forearm). While she is also totally at home with the water based therapies of both the hydro spa and the thalasso spa (the former uses water, the latter sea-water).

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