Spa of the Month: Kaliyoga
Nowadays, any hotel with a pool, some fluffy towels and a manicurist claims to be…
Browsing: Spas
Spa of the Month: St Michael’s
With endless dark nights, miserable short days and awful weather…this isn’t the time for a big detox or a boot camp. What’s called for now is a nourishing break for body and soul. Anna Selby goes coastal…
New Year, New You
Travel writer and spa guru Anna Selby knows a thing or two about healthy living. In a new monthly column in the Arb she’ll be sampling the world’s finest, healthiest hotspots. What better way to bring in the new year…
Spain’s Secret Garden
“I’m face down on a low-slung wooden bed in white pyjamas, limbs being pulled in all directions like a marionette puppet.” Lucy visits the Asia Gardens, Alicante…
Guerlain Spa: Edinburgh
I arrive at the Guerlain Spa located in Edinburgh’s Waldorf Astoria Caledonian Hotel on a grey, grizzly weekday afternoon. Even the nearby castle looks sad…
India Special Part 2: Kumarakom Lake Resort
There are times in life when one finds oneself in the oddest of situations, unable to entirely process the experience and not knowing if it is a good thing or not…
A Food Writer Goes Cold Turkey
“December is something of a minefield for most Londoners, a month to traverse with care rather than stumble through blindly. I’m afraid to say my minefield was particularly well laid with drinks, parties and lengthy dinners.”
Diamonds and Detox: Bulgari Spa
“I considered the buying of fine jewellery something for the older me: wise enough to know what to invest in and solvent enough to swallow the minor mortgage required…”
Spa Le Bristol by La Prairie, Paris
“Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse,” the American writer Christopher Morley once said. Wise words Mr Morley, words I kept in mind when I booked a signature massage at the Spa Le Bristol…
J’adore! Dior Institut, Paris
“The Plaza Athénée, the Parisian palace par excellence. Pair it with one of the world’s most prestigious fashion and beauty houses and a girl’s dreams come true. Or at least mine did…”
Spa Struck: Villa Majestic in Paris
It was a beautiful warm and sunny day. I had just washed my hair and…
Heaven is a Place on Fifth Avenue
“There is perhaps nothing more ‘New York’ than to sit in a New York bar with two New York girls. But while the girls were loaded with energy and enthusiasm, I was drifting in and out of a relaxed coma…”