Spa Retreats

Recover your energy, focus and sense of wellbeing at some of the best spa hotels & retreats in Africa

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Overview

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A spa retreat originally meant a place of mineral springs used for relaxing and healing the body. Recently there's been a return to this focus on healing the body.

So often our modern lives seem fragmented almost beyond repair. We manfully struggle to fulfil various roles simultaneously in competing areas: professional, social, spiritual and parental. Rarely do we have the time to focus on ourselves. A good spa retreat takes a holistic approach to calming both body and mind.

South Africa, alongside Mauritius and the Seychelles, has some of the finest Spa Retreats in the southern hemisphere. They combine exquisite spa design and therapies, alongside luxurious accommodation and enchanting locations.

Spa Resorts in South Africa

How best to enjoy luxury spa holidays in Africa? Some people set aside some spa time for a few days. However most of our clients simply choose a hotel or lodge with superb spa facilities.

Spa retreats in Afrixa - Four Seasons Seychelles Resort

Many spa resorts have developed their own African style. Not only in spa design, but in spa treatments and products used. Many offer spa treatments incorporating local herbs and plants, alongside more internationally recognised brands. For example some spa hotels in the Cape Winelands offer vinotherapy treatments, using the essence of wine grapes to assist with detox and rejuvenation.

Note: Though we only show one sample tour under this category, many of our sample itineraries can and DO include a hotel or resort which has an excellent spa.

We recommend that you check out some of our suggested hotels below and request them.

We have tried to show the hotels with good spa facilities on the African mainland first. As nearly all the large Indian Ocean resorts in Mauritius, the Seychelles and on the Mozambiquan islands have good spa facilities. So you can almost take that as given,..

What do WE mean by Spa in South Africa?

Yoga on safariHowever South African hotels tend to play fairly fast and loose with the words ‘Spa’ and ‘Wellness’. Sometimes a hotel will say it has a Spa when in reality, it only has some health and beauty facilities such as one massage room. Here we have only listed a hotel or safari lodge below if it has a dedicated Spa facility with a range of treatment rooms and therapies.

But many, many hotels have the facility to offer a massage or beauty treatments. But they may not have all the various extras that we associate with full-on spas such as indoor spa pools, sauna, steam room, gym, brine pool, water treatments and so forth….

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