Best New Year wellness breaks for 2012
Checkout the best New Year wellness breaks for 2012 – from fit camps at Champneys to weight busting in Cyprus, or refresh your energy with tailored health retreats and boot camps. The SPA Traveller reveals the best in Wellness Breaks to get you started…
The SPA Traveller has been in search of the best New Year deals to ease you into 2012.
UK Spa Hotels and Resorts
1. New tailored health retreats at Grayshott Spa
Grayshott Spa in Surrey has announced a new health division which will run alongside their successful spa.
Grayshott health will offer specialist programmes that provide long term solutions to specific health problems whereas the spa division will continue to offer spa stays and days, with a new range of treatments.
These tailored retreats, which run from four to six days, will be closely supervised by Grayshott's highly experienced in-house health consultants including nutritionists, nurses, hypnotherapists and treatment therapists as well as a substantial menu of evidence based therapies/treatments.
Programmes available in 2012 will include: weight management, deep sleep, burnout recovery, recuperation, menopause and new body.
To compliment these specialist health programmes, the spa division will offer improved detox, de-stress, and top to toe breaks using Grayshott’s own newly developed range of pure oils called "Puressence".
www.grayshottspa.com
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2. Beaut camp break at Ragdale Hall
Ragdale Hall Health and Hydro Spa will be holding a luxury fitness boot camp from January 19-22, 2012.
If you're looking to kick start your weight loss or boost your energy levels, this is the perfect break for you. The three-day spa retreat will be packed with both indoor and outdoor classes together with mini seminars to educate and inspire you.
Package includes:
• Fitness assessment - to analyse strengths and weaknesses, so enabling goals to be set.
• Group exercise sessions both indoor and outdoor - exclusive to Beaut Camp guests using the latest scientific research to reduce fat, sculpt muscles and improve mobility.
• Mini seminars and talks - covering topics such as exercise for weight loss, healthy cooking, fitness myths, eating yourself healthy and exercise for life.
• Beaut Camp Pack - your own self-help manual that will support each of the sessions and seminars to ensure you continue the good work back home.
• Breakfast served in your room, three course buffet lunch and three course dinner.
• 40 minute Dead Sea Mud Envelopment
• 40 minute Fresh Legs Treatment (for men a Refreshing Foot Therapy)
• Three-month follow up from a dedicated instructor
Cost: Prices start at £408 in an economy room with a person sharing.
www.ragdalehall.co.uk
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3. Fit camps at Champneys
If your looking to kick-start your wellness routine, then why not book into one of the Champneys Fit Camps where you will enjoy a mix of group activities and exercise, healthy cuisine and, of course, a little pampering.
With an average weight loss of 6.3 lbs and an average inch loss of 4.5 inches, these Fit Camps are a great way to get fit, have fun and see great results.
The new itineraries will include fitness regimes for four to six hours a day and it is hoped guests will leave Champneys feeling energised and motivated to continue with their new level of fitness.
During the Fit Camps you will receive one-to-one advice with the resident nutritionists and a food plan to follow when back at home.
With invigorating activities and great camaraderie, there’s also time for important rest and relaxation in the spa where guests can indulge in the latest spa therapies, take a dip in the pool or relax in the warm, bubbling Thalassotherapy pool – ideal for soothing tired and aching limbs.
The Champneys Fit Camps are for a minimum of eight people and the first one starts on January 14, 2012 and are available from £995 per person for Henlow and Springs and £1,195 per person for Forest Mere and Tring. The two-night Fit Camps are £349.95 per person and the four-night Fit Camps are £599.95 per person.
www.champneys.com
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International Spa Hotels, Resorts and Wellness Retreats
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1. Lose weight on Italy’s Lake Garda
Lefay Resort & Spa, overlooking Lake Garda in Italy, has designed a wellbeing body programme, which takes a holistic approach to weight loss.
The spa is set in 27 acres of woodland and olive groves in the Alto Garda National Park. There are five different types of sauna; a salt water lake for flotation therapies; a state-of-the-art gym and outdoor and indoor swimming pools.
Lefay's Scientific Committee have established two broad categories of people with excess weight - Yin and Yang; those who over eat in social situations and those who have cravings and water retention.
Although the groups overlap, they allow Lefay's doctors to identify behaviour that causes excess weight and tailor a long-term programme to tackle it.
The programme starts with a personal consultation to establish the guest's body and behaviour type. This is followed by a series of massages. Energetic Plantar Reflexology is used to stimulate the body and release energy. Tailor-made treatments make up the rest of the programme.
A detoxifying diet complements the programme. It is designed not to restrict calories, but to change dietary behaviour and patterns.
The weight loss programme costs from £1,280 (Euros 1,490) including three nights at Lefay Resort & Spa on a full board basis.
www.lefayresorts.com
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2. Weight buster package in Cyprus
If you’re looking to completely relax after the festive season a stay in one of the royal spa rooms at Le Meridien Limassol Spa & Resort in Cyprus could be just the tonic.
The Jewel in the resort's crown is the 3,000-square metre Le Spa with its seven mosaic indoor-outdoor seawater pools, each with its own temperature and salinity and 34 treatment rooms.
You can book onto the exclusive six-day Equilibrium and Purity Package or the Weight Buster Package which will include bespoke treatments and cuisine specially prepared for you by the spas experts.
This will also give you the chance to take part in the spa’s unique Thalassotherapy Programme which offers the curative effects of mineral enriched seawater.
A spa to splash out on! »
lemeridien-cyprus.com
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3. No spa like a snow spa
All too often, people seem to think they have to make a decision between a ski and a spa break, when in reality they can enjoy the best of both worlds in one fell swoop.
At the Grand Hotel Kronenhof, Pontresina guests can enjoy the 350km of the Engadin-St Moritz ski area, at altitudes of between 1,800m and 3,300m guaranteeing snow, before retreating to all 2,000 square metres of The Kronenhof Spa to enjoy some peace and quiet in the swimming-pool, hydrotherapy pool, saunas, steam, flotation room or Kneipp baths.
Grand Hotel Kronenhof is introducing some new treatments and packages for the winter 2011/12 season. For example, the Spa’s Mud Therapy programme includes a Full Body Massage with Mud & Marmot Massage Milk (50 minutes, CHF130/approx £90) that improves blood circulation and has anti-inflammatory effects – perfect after a first day on the slopes, when muscles are used that haven’t been used since the previous season!
From January 9-19, 2012, Grand Hotel Kronenhof is offering a “Winter Special“ package that is valid for between two and five nights, which includes a delicious buffet breakfast and a set menu dinner daily, as well as a 30 per cent discount on a ski pass for the relevant number of days. As an added bonus, guests receive unlimited access to The Kronenhof Spa and a 10 per cent discount on all treatments. A two-day package starts from CHF535 (approx £380) per person sharing a double room.
www.kronenhof.com
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