How would you relax if you were a millionaire? With a diamond manicure? A 24 carat gold facial? Or maybe a treetop massage? These are just a few of the ultra-exclusive spa treatments available to the uber-wealthy across the UK.
While every spa claims to make you feel like a million bucks, an elite few places can truly stand by this claim. So whether you are a millionaire-in-training or an insatiable dreamer, here are a few of the best (and most expensive) spa experiences in the UK.
– Location: London
Sanderson hotel is a favourite of the rich and famous. Discreetly tucked away in London’s trendy Fitzrovia, it is immaculately decorated with no expense spared. The Agua Spa is no different.
Decorated entirely in white and kitted out with its own bar, it has everything you need for instant relaxation.
THE TREATMENT: Agua Spa offers an impressive range of facials and body treatments, but its most infamous offering is the Natura Bisse Diamond Experience, aka: the diamond facial.
This is a super-powerful treatment that uses miniscule diamond crystals, which exfoliate and smooth the skin and help the other high tech products to get to work in the deepest layers of the skin.
– Location: Perthshire
Gleneagles is best known for its world class golfing facilities, but it is also home to an award-winning spa (The Spa by ESPA), which combines European, Eastern and Ayurvedic philosophies.
But the real draw of this sprawling resort is its utter tranquility, which makes it the perfect place to escape from the paparazzi.
THE TREATMENT: Unsurprisingly, The Spa by ESPA looks to its local environment for inspiration, and signature treatment ‘The Source’ features a unique combination of ingredients and products that have been sourced from the local river and countryside, making this a truly exclusive experience.
– Location: Hampshire
Set between the New Forest National Park and the sandy Hampshire coast, Chewton Glen is already a nature-lovers paradise. But when you have a limitless budget, you can afford to get even closer to nature – all in the name of relaxation.
Guests can stay in one of the hotel’s luxury treehouses, which offer a bird’s eye view of the countryside as you chill out among the leaves.
THE TREATMENT: The Spa at Chewton Glen offers an award-winning suite of spa treatments, but two in particular stand out: New Forest Flow and Tree Top Tranquillity.
Featuring a blend of body brushing, massage and essential oil cocoons, these treatments take place in the serenity of the trees, where the air is cleaner and your stresses will float away in the breeze.
– Location: London
The Bulgari brand is synonymous with high end jewellery, luxury leather goods and watches, and the Bulgari Hotel stays true to this ethos.
Only the best will do for this super-luxe hotel and spa – it even boasts London’s largest underground pool, decorated with gold leaf tiles of course.
THE TREATMENT: The Private Onyx Spa Suite is exactly what you are imagining – a private yet spacious treatment room decorated with real onyx walls.
For just £900, you can rent it out for three hours for up to two people. The price includes a 2-hour treatment – why not up the glamour ante and try the spa’s signature 24ct gold facial?
– Location: Anywhere
What could be more luxurious than the spa that comes to you? The Cherish…Me team will travel anywhere in the country, or further afield if you send a private jet.
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THE TREATMENT: The Iced Manicure – just your average French manicure, but with diamonds glued to the tips. The price varies depending on the quantity and quality of the diamonds used.
Thrifty millionaires can opt to have the discarded diamonds made into a piece of bespoke jewellery…for an extra fee of course.
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