For golf and spa breaks in Essex the variety is extensive or joyful. An easy escape from London, the region offers guests a wealth of different experiences from countryside to coast, city escape to rural retreat.
For example, few things beat a getaway with friends to the vast Five Lakes Resort in Colchester. With abundant activities available from tennis to golf and with 12 spa treatment rooms in the spa, there’s lots of space for quality time and entertainment with the people you care about. There are two 18-hole golf courses in the grounds of the resort, while the spa offers space to enjoy time with friends with features including a manicure/pedicure room catering for up to seven people at a time.
Then again, you should also try Stoke by Nayland, a stylish hotel that also has private lodges that you can stay in for extra privacy with family, friends or your partner. Here, the Peake Spa is all about indulgence, complete with a mud rasul chamber, muralled walls depicting Cypress trees for Mediterranean calm, and 12 treatment rooms. Meanwhile, it’s situated within 300 acres of rolling countryside in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and has an 18-hole golf course that has been described as the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of the family run resort.
