This place is as comforting and life-enforcing as being enveloped in the warm embrace of a best friend who immediately knows exactly how to calm your screaming baby. Hope Street Hotel, located in the city’s Georgian Quarter, has been named the Best City Spa of 2023 by the Good Spa Guide Awards after receiving a staggering number of consumer votes crowing them with this year’s title. Following an extensive and thorough review by a mystery ‘Spa Spy’, the Good Spa Guide said that Rockliffe Hall demonstrated a“combination of luxury, good facilities and great treatments with a carefully designed spa journey and high standards of cleanliness.

Spanning 2,500sqm and spread across four floors, the Guerlain Spa was conceived by the interior design studio Goddard Littlefair. What a lovely way to spend a Monday afternoon celebrating the best in spa from across the UK fuelled with Champagne afternoon tea! I chose the buffalo mozzarella with pesto and cherry tomatoes along with the goats cheese flatbread as my main.A genuine and deeply authentic celebration of the West Country sits at the root of The Newt’s entire supersized operation – and the estate’s locavore, back-to-the-land ethos bounces off the walls of its pretty stone spa. We journeyed on to the experience showers, designed to use water, lights, different fragrances and temperatures to expand the senses. And the treatments deliver exactly what is needed: Germaine de Capuccini facials, vitamin C wraps, wildly invigorating exfoliations and the sedating Hebridean Sound treatment which includes a mass of powerful scalp work to slow down a racing mind.

The spa opened back in 2021 following extensive renovations and extensions made to the hotel and its grounds. Therapists create a blend of aromatherapy oils to your taste: muse over black pepper and mandarin, frangipani and ylang-ylang.Our specialised skills include subtle energy techniques, mindful touch, reflexology, acupressure and comfort massage. A calming and secluded space, it’s home to a 20-metre indoor pool, vitality pool, sauna, steam and experience showers. Floor-to-ceiling windows overlook an impeccably landscaped garden and 24 acres of countryside in the charming village of Melbourne. Until then, visitors made do with damp slate cottages and packed lunches because the whole point about the Lake District was that you came to scale its handsome fells and leap from rock to rock across its thundering waterfalls.

With our carefully choreographed thermal journey, the Destination Spa takes you through an Aromatherapy steam room, Himalayan salt sauna, a Tepidarium, an Outdoor Tyrolean Kilo Sauna, an Outdoor Hot Tub, Outdoor Heated Pool*, a Monsoon shower, Foot Spa and Ice Fountain followed by both a Relaxation Lounge and Tranquillity Lounge. Outside the gloss continues with some smartly converted stables, a collection of cottages (ideal for families), a rose garden, tennis courts and – star of the show – a fabulously sparky eco-spa.

By visiting the Ardencote Destination Spa, you will receive more than just an uninterrupted spa journey, you will have full access to healthy snacks in the relaxation lounge, hair straighteners and gentle shampoos, conditioners, cleansers and moisturisers all infused with the uplifting aromatics of thyme, basil and Neroli.

There’s showers with toiletries as well as GHD hair dryers and straighteners for freshening up after your visit. Wooden cabins and huts are proper Little House On The Prairie hideaways, built along the banks of a lake and ringed by pretty meadow flowers, with steel baths on the veranda, rocking chairs and a little kitchenette with jars of homemade biscuits and stacks of liquor. The Good Spa Guide brings spa lovers and spa brands together with a unique offering: in-depth, independent spa reviews for consumers plus a suite of marketing opportunities for spas.Ardencote Destination Spa offers treatments for those with cancer or with a history of cancer, making an incredible difference to their wellbeing. With an Olympic array of golf, leisure, family, sporting and wellness facilities, a membership at Foxhills offers a home from home with something for all the family. Dishes consist of light and refreshing meals including sun-dried tomato hummus with flatbread and penne Arrabbiata. Thank you to everyone at the Sanderson Hotel for such an amazing evening, the Mad Hatter-themed tea party was lovely.