While the Algarve on Portugal's Atlantic coast is renowned for its golf courses, the holiday playground's superlative spas are now vying for attention. In recent years an unprecedented number of outstanding spas have opened within luxury five star hotels and resorts. Most welcome day guests, so even if you're not staying at the resort you [...]
The Gastein area of Austria is blessed with stunning alpine scenery, thermal springs and one of the world’s most unusual natural “cures,” says Contributing Editor Catherine Beattie. Arriving in early summer, we found the mountains still sprinkled with snow and the weather unseasonably chilly. We were booked in at the family-run Hoteldorf Grüner Baum, set [...]
Live the Robinson Crusoe fantasy on Velassaru, a sun-drenched small island in the Maldives with soft white beaches, a warm turquoise lagoon, luxury accommodation and an over-water spa Scattered across the Indian Ocean like a necklace of precious gems, the Maldives islands are one of the world's most romantic destinations. Nowhere else epitomizes paradise on [...]
