The UK’s first Guerlain Spa
Edinburgh’s Caledonian Waldorf Astoria Hotel has opened the UK’s first Guerlain branded spa – an elegant city retreat offering indulgent and cutting edge treatments using the famous perfume house’s luxury products. ‘Transforming’ half and full day spa experiences include signature and personalised facial and body therapies, makeup sessions, reflexology, Chinese massage and aesthetic drainage. Spa facilities include three treatment rooms, sauna, steam room, Jacuzzi, swimming pool and state-of-the art 24-hour gym. Gift packages include ‘Spa and Sparkle’ an indulgent spa and afternoon tea gift experience that includes full use of the exclusive spa and wellbeing facilities, an immaculate manicure by celebrity favourite Leighton Denny, and a Champagne afternoon tea in the hotel’s iconic Peacock Alley. The ‘Spa and Sparkle’ package costs £85 per person or £165.00 for two. Visit www.thecaledonian.waldorfastoria.com for further...
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Yoga meets Ayurveda in Sri Lanka
Want to experience vibrant, radiant health with long-lasting results? Join a yoga and Ayurveda retreat at the Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort in Sri Lanka on 21 April – 1 May 2013. The retreat held at this beautiful location beside the ocean, combines yoga and Ayurveda with clear air and fresh food to inspire vibrant health and wellness. You can practise yoga, enjoy Ayurvedic treatments, learn lifestyle skills, dietary tips and holistic practices to bring about long-lasting lifestyle improvements. Ayurveda is great for detoxification and rejuvenation; Vinyasa flow yoga, led by a renowned UK yoga teacher Mollie McClelland, is perfect for energising, purifying, and overall fitness. Experience the cleansing from within and your body vibrant and peaceful. For further details and to book:...
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Fly into the Maldives in style
Shangri-La Villingili Resort and Spa is the first luxury resort in the Maldives south of the equator and the only one to have a private executive airport terminal at Gan International Airport in Addu Atoll. Guests with a private jet can arrive and depart in effortless style from the airport, just five minutes away from the resort by private speedboat. The airport offers Shangri-La’s first-class service, a private jet lounge, on-site immigration, customs support and baggage screening. Guests travelling on commercial airlines into Male International Airport embark on a scenic 70-minute inter-island flight with ‘Maldivian’ to Gan International Airport, from where they are transferred to the resort by private speedboat. Surrounded by a coral reef, the boutique-style resort features 132 villas in seven styles from private water villas and tropical tree houses to pool villas and beachside residences. The...
Read MoreNovember
November is always a busy month and this year was no exception. November 1st saw the UK launch of Mary Kay’s new TimeWise Repair products at the Dorchester Spa on Park Lane. While I’ve been to the spa a number of times, I’d never experienced the Spatisserie –the spa’s light and elegant dining area. We were offered delicious and healthy bite-sized portions of fresh fruit, savoury canapés and yogurt, all beautifully presented – so it was rather a faux pas that in such elegant surroundings, my companion’s tea was served with hot milk! Until the launch, I knew little about Mary Kay. The brand was founded in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash in Dallas, Texas, using using her life savings of $5,000. Today, Mary Kay is one of the largest direct sellers of skin care and cosmetics in the...
Read MoreUrban Healing
A gloriously sunny day borrowed from summer and I’m back in London for the first time since our extended stay in Spain. I’m in town for the launch of Healing Hotels of the World’s new brand – Urban Healing Hotels, which is being held at the Metropolitan on Park Lane. German entrepreneurs Anne Biging and Elisabeth Ixmeier founded online tour operator Healing Hotels of the World in 2006, and have grown the business into a global brand of 80 carefully selected luxurious hotels and resorts which focus on holistic health and wellbeing. The Metropolitan is the first of six hotels already signed up to the new urban programme, which will have just one hotel in any city and a strict membership criteria that includes availability of holistic therapies, healthy dining options and a high level of sleep comfort. Over...
Read MoreTaking the worry out of frown lines
In London again to try The Frown Treatment, an Environ facial, designed to soften facial frown lines without the use of toxin injections. At Peach on the Hill, a small beauty salon in Notting Hill, therapist Gosha shows me down to a cosy treatment room. Her radiant complexion says much for the efficacy of the Environ products. She explains that my facial will use low frequency sound waves and a pulsed galvanic current to help the active ingredients in the products penetrate into my skin. I relax on a heated treatment bed as my skin is thoroughly cleansed and toned before the Focus Frown Serum and another serum with vitamins A and C is applied. Gosha then presses a small probe around my eye and frown areas for about ten minutes. This emits a low-frequency sound wave and feels...
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