Best Destination Spa

Rancho La Puerta is a renowned fitness retreat located in Tecate, Mexico. Established in 1940 by Edmond and Deborah Szekely, it remains one of North America’s longest-running wellness programs. The resort offers a holistic approach combining personalized exercise regimens with nutritious cuisine and...

The Golden Door is a renowned wellness retreat located in San Marcos, California. Established in 1958 by Deborah Szekely, it offers an exclusive experience inspired by Japanese ryokans. The spa accommodates limited groups each week, providing intensive programs focused on physical and mental rejuven...

Canyon Ranch Tucson is a renowned wellness retreat nestled in southern Arizona. Established in 1979, it pioneered the destination spa model, offering comprehensive health programs for individuals seeking to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. The resort provides personalized nutrition plans...

Ananda in the Himalayas is a luxury spa located in Uttarakhand, India. It offers immersive wellness experiences rooted in Ayurvedic principles, yoga practices, and Vedanta philosophy. The estate’s historic setting within the former Maharaja’s palace provides a unique environment for rejuvenation. It...

Kamalaya Koh Samui is a renowned wellness retreat located on Thailand’s Ko Samui island. Established in 2005, it utilizes a historic cave once occupied by Buddhist monks to provide residential programs focused on holistic health and wellbeing. The sanctuary offers detox experiences and various thera...

Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa offers a comprehensive wellness experience within the stunning Sonoran Desert near Tucson. Established in 1995, it’s recognized for its unique integration of mindfulness practices and equine-assisted therapies. The resort caters to individuals seeking personal transforma...

The COMO Shambhala Estate is a luxury wellness retreat nestled within Bali’s lush jungles near Ubud. It provides comprehensive wellbeing experiences combining yoga, Ayurvedic therapies, and personalized nutritional plans. Designed for individuals seeking intensive relaxation, rejuvenation, and holis...

A destination spa within Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona, opened in 2001, known for incorporating Native American healing traditions and its dramatic red rock canyon setting.

Lake Austin Spa Resort is a destination wellness resort located on the shore of Lake Austin in Texas. It combines overnight accommodation with spa treatments, fitness and movement classes, outdoor activities, cooking and nutrition programming, and access to the lake. Its relatively contained waterfr...

Schloss Elmau is a hotel, cultural retreat, and spa complex in the Bavarian Alps of Germany. It is known for hosting concerts, literary events, and discussions alongside wellness, yoga, and outdoor programs. The property served as the venue for Group of Seven summits in 2015 and 2022, placing its se...

Cal-a-Vie Health Spa is a residential destination spa near Vista in Southern California. The property is designed with architecture and landscaping influenced by rural Provence and combines lodging with scheduled exercise, spa treatments, nutrition, and mind-body activities. Its programs are intende...

Canyon Ranch Lenox is a destination wellness resort in Lenox, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire region. Opened in 1989 as the second Canyon Ranch property, it operates from the Bellefontaine estate, whose principal mansion was built during the Gilded Age. The property combines lodging with structured...

Sensei Porcupine Creek is a wellness resort in Rancho Mirage, California, situated on a former private estate associated with Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Operated by Sensei, it combines lodging, spa services, fitness activities, golf, and structured wellness programming within a landscaped dese...

Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som is a destination wellness resort on Qatar's northern coast, operated in association with the Thai wellness company Chiva-Som. Its programs combine accommodation with consultations, physical activity, nutrition, spa treatments, and approaches described as drawing on...

Fivelements Retreat Bali is a wellness retreat beside the Ayung River in Bali, Indonesia, near Ubud. Its programs draw on Balinese healing traditions and combine spa treatments, movement or meditation practices, and plant-based food in a destination-retreat setting. The property is designed for trav...

Gaia Retreat & Spa is a wellness retreat in the Byron Bay hinterland of New South Wales, Australia. Co-founded by singer and actor Olivia Newton-John, it combines accommodation with spa treatments, movement activities, nutrition, and other programs organized around rest and personal wellbeing. It is...

Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat is a health and wellness retreat in the Tallebudgera Valley hinterland of Queensland, Australia. Its residential programs combine accommodation, structured physical activity, spa treatments, nutrition, and educational sessions concerning stress and lifestyle habits. The r...

Sundara Inn & Spa is an adults-only destination spa in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, set within a wooded landscape rather than the city's water-park district. Its accommodations and wellness facilities support overnight retreats centered on spa treatments, relaxation, fitness, and guided activities. T...

The Farm at San Benito is a holistic medical-wellness retreat in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines, located on a tropical property developed around an organic farm. Its programs combine plant-based meals with medical consultations, spa treatments, movement, and complementary therapies. It serves guests pu...

Ragdale Hall Spa is a residential destination spa located near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. Operating from a country-house property, it combines overnight accommodation with fitness facilities, pools, thermal experiences, beauty services, massage, and structured wellness activities. Th...

A luxury wellness resort in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, offering immersive residential programs that combine Eastern healing traditions with Western therapeutic approaches.

Red Mountain Resort is a destination wellness resort in Ivins, Utah, set amid the red-rock landscape near Snow Canyon State Park and within traveling distance of Zion National Park. Its programming combines lodging and spa services with guided hiking, fitness classes, and other outdoor activities. T...

Hoar Cross Hall is a country-house hotel and spa at Hoar Cross in Staffordshire, England. The property occupies a large Victorian mansion built in the Jacobean Revival style and operates as a destination for overnight stays, spa treatments, fitness activities, and dining. Its facilities include indo...

Absolute Sanctuary is a destination wellness resort on Koh Samui, Thailand, housed in a Moroccan inspired complex. Its programs center on yoga, Pilates, fitness, detoxification, nutrition, stress management, and broader lifestyle goals, with spa treatments and health focused meals supporting structu...

Champneys Tring is a destination spa and health resort near Tring in Hertfordshire, England. Established in 1925, it became the original property associated with the Champneys name and forms part of the British tradition of residential health retreats. The resort is intended for overnight and day vi...

Champneys Forest Mere is a destination spa and residential health resort near Liphook in Hampshire, England. The property is arranged around Forest Mere lake and forms part of the Champneys group of British spa resorts. It provides accommodation alongside spa treatments, fitness activities, pools, a...

A Champneys health spa resort set in a Georgian country house in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England, offering residential and day spa packages.