Top health spas you have to visit

A health spa is designed to take the wellbeing experience to new heights, offering a change to reset and recharge in mind and body. Incorporating a holistic experience from nutrition to spa treatments, dietitians to naturopaths, health spas they can also incorporate high-tech wellness to help you understand your state of wellness now and where you want to go. Not only do you leave feeling your best, but with the tools to continue the feel-good-factor at home. Here are some of our favourite health spa destinations to give you inspiration.

Champneys Tring, Hertfordshire

Champneys is a brand synonymous with health spas - arguably the original UK health retreat. Champneys Tring is their original destination, dating back to 1925 and located within 160 acres of manicured gardens and picturesque Hertfordshire countryside. Their goal is to make sure you leave feeling your best, through a series of carefully considered nutrition, treatments and experiences. The hotel and spa work alongside one another - you don't come here to experience them independently. Spend your time enjoying one of the 20 daily exercise classes, pools, hiking trails, tennis courts and bike hire, not to mention unique salt, oxygen, infrared and water experiences. Then head to one of 62 treatment rooms where they use their own product line and salt-water based treatments for optimal wellness. If you like Champneys Tring, you should also explore their other destinations including Champneys Springs, Champneys Henlow Grange and Champneys Forest Mere.

Chewton Glen, New Forest

Chewton Glen is well known for its luxury hotel and as a destination that welcomes everyone, whether it's a family retreat hunting for Easter eggs in spring, or a romantic getaway staying in one of their treehouse suites. Alongside the hotel, the spa is a world of its own, dedicated to both holistic lifestyle programmes and indulgent treatments. They use their indoor and outdoor spaces to encourage fitness and wellness, with classes ranging from Tai Chi to Physio-Flex. There's tennis and golf, jogging trails and facilities including a pool hall which contains a 17-metre lap pool, a hydrotherapy pool with 13 jet stations. There's also a steam room, an outdoor whirlpool and drench showers, and each changing room has a 10-seater sauna and an amethyst crystal steam room. There are 12 treatment rooms, and here therapists provide beautiful treatments from REN, Oskia and Natura Bisse.

AIRE Ancient Baths London, London

AIRE Ancient Baths is a day spa that offers wellness in the heart of the city. Again delivering luxury alongside wellness and showing that the two are not mutually exclusive, it draws inspiration from ancient spa rituals. Guests move through a series of authentic heat experiences including a tepidarium (36ºc), caldarium (40°c) and frigidarium (14ºC and 10ºC), a vaporium scented with eucalyptus, a balneum, thousand jet baths, and a flotarium. Then experience one of their signature rituals for holistic wellness.

The Spa at Carden Park, Chester

Set in a 1000 acre estate with its own vineyard, The Spa at Carden Park is an adult-only retreat that sits alongside a five-star hotel. The spa is a destination in its own right, offering state-of-the-art health and wellness alongside luxury and pampering. The vast indoor spas is two-storey building, accompanied by a 2,500 square metre spa garden that allows you to bask in outdoor wellness all year round. A partnership with Bollinger means there's also a Champagne bar and the spa has its own restaurant so you can spend all day in your robe and slippers. Treatments are a fusion of Elemental Herbology therapies and clay masks made with grape juice from their own vines. The spa also uses the Made for Life product line to offer beautiful treatments for anyone following a cancer diagnosis.

Ragdale Hall Spa, Melton Mowbray

Ragdale Hall is one of the best known health spa hotels in the UK. In tranquil surroundings in the Leicestershire countryside, it's an all-inclusive retreat, dedicated to ensuring guests feel rested and rejuvenated at the end of their stay. The spa is a feast of wellness facilities, the pinnacle of which is the ergonomic Thermal Spa, complete with a Candle Pool, Indoor/Outdoor Waterfall Pool, graphics enhanced Thought Zone, aromatherapy scented Colourflow Cave, Volcanic Salt Bath, Scented Room, Rose Sauna and a Cave Shower complete with its own thunderstorm and experience showers. The rooftop pool is also a favourite feature. After that, guests can enjoy treatments ranging from dry flotation therapy, to acupuncture and luxury facials and massages.

Fairmont Windsor Park, Windsor

A lavish hotel with a cutting edge spa, Fairmont Windsor Park is a purpose-built destination on the edge of Windsor Great Park itself. The spa has every possible facility you could ask for, as well as high standards of expertise within its ranks. Set in 40 acres of grounds, you can run along jogging tracks or use the outdoor gym, as well as spend time in the expansive 2,500m2 spa and wellbeing environment. Facilities range from a hammam, a 20-metre indoor pool, a courtyard hydrotherapy vitality pool, and a thermal suite to health assessments with a lifestyle review and 4D scanning, osteopathy, acupuncture and nutritional therapy and a cryotherapy chamber. The spa has 18 treatment rooms and therapists that tailor treatments to the individual. For example, they have won awards as a founding member of GenM, which is an organisation dedicated to supporting women through menopause. As a result, they offer dedicated spa treatments and nutrition advice to help women manage hormone change positively.

Barnsley House, Gloucestershire

In fairytale gardens in the Cotswolds, Barnsley House is a blissful retreat. Alongside a luxury, manor house hotel, the spa has been carefully curated to offer wellbeing and luxury. Its range of features include a heated outdoor hydrotherapy pool, a steam room, sauna, relaxation room and five treatment rooms. While biophilic design including wooden beams and plenty of plants provide a sense of natural wellbeing, treatments range from holistic massages to doctor-led, non-surgical cosmetic treatments.