Best 2025 destinations for luxury wellness and spa retreats

Luxury wellness holidays are a transformative way to nurture your mind, body and soul while exploring the wonders of the world.

Realign your priorities, focus on self-care, experience the most luxurious and rejuvenating wellness holidays around the world and return home rested and empowered. The choices are endless, from spiritual retreats, through to tropical escapes or Nordic lodges, that all restore and inspire.

The Escapes by BFP team has collated some of the best-in-class options for luxury wellness holidays to inspire and de-stress you in 2025.

Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape, Bali

Experience a place where time flows differently, where guests engage with nature and disconnect with the outside world.

This beautiful jungle site in northern Bali, Buahan has no doors and no enclosing walls to create a genuine connection with nature, culture and the self. It is the perfect place to switch off, be free, awaken your senses and grow.

Relax in the serene spas and harmonise with wellbeing, savour culinary moments amid nature and rethink how you nourish your body. Enjoy days filed with self-discovery and personal growth via Vinyasa yoga, ice baths, forest treks, healing fire rituals and massages.

Home during your Banyan Tree Escape will be one of 16 private villas, boasting private pools and wonderful views of Bali’s seven peaks.

Daios Cove, Crete

Nestled in the privacy of a scheduled cove in Vathi, Daios Cove Luxury Resort and Villas in Crete is an ultra-modern holistic health destination.

The five-star resort’s stunning architecture seamlessly blends into its rugged surroundings to create a natural home of beauty and serenity for guests to relax and nurture their health.

Its wellness team will provide you with a full body reset that begins with a diagnostic consultation. Personal-training sessions and group courses are available in both indoor and outdoor gyms.

Try the cryotherapy chamber to enjoy a post-workout energy boost, or a calming oxygen chamber. There are extensive yoga classes, spa facial treatment, wellness therapies and luxurious swimming pools.

The accommodation is simply exquisite with luxurious suites complete with sea views and individual pools. The resort has multiple fine restaurants that create nutritious contemporary menus using local, seasonal ingredients.

Six Senses Ibiza

When you arrive at Six Senses on the northern tip of Ibiza you are immediately struck by a sense of calm.

This 137-guest retreat comprises of luxurious residences, mansions, poll suites and beachfront caves, is a haven for deep spiritual experiences. Six Senses perfectly combines ancient traditions with modern science to provide a holistic approach to wellness.

Unwind, slow down and realign your body at this magical luxury retreat where longevity is at the core of its health and wellness programmes. Experience hyperbaric chambers, electromagnetic thrones, cryotherapy and DNA testing alongside healthy eating, energy treatments and yoga at sunrise.

This secluded resort is just a 35-minute drive from Ibiza’s international airport and a stay here will leave you restored, regenerated and transformed.

Eleven Deplar Farm, Iceland

Eleven has been created with deep seated belief that you should not have to sacrifice the comforts of home to experience some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes and remarkable adventures.

Its team scours the globe for relatively unknown destinations and create high-end properties where its guests can enjoy incredible off-grid locations in stunning luxury hideouts.

And you can’t get much more off-the -gird than Eleven Deplar Farm in Fljót Valley on the mountainous Troll Peninsula in northern Iceland. Named one of 2023’s ‘Best Hotels in the World’ on Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List, it should be on any discerning luxury adventure travellers bucket list.

This remote area is a gateway for Nordic adventures that captivate the senses, ranging from skiing to sea kayaking and the perfect location for viewing the Aurora Borealis due to its notable lack of artificial light.

The retreat is focused around four pillars of health: movement, breath, nourishment and connection. Located on a former sheep farm, Deplar has been transformed into an oasis of complete luxury. The 13 bedrooms are cosy and elegant and offer glorious views.

Enjoy the sauna, steam-room, hot tubs, flotation tanks and treatment rooms and the geothermally heated indoor and outdoor pool complete with a swim-up bar.

Sitting in the pool, as steam swirls around you while watching the Northern Lights shimmer above will simply leave you full of joy and wonder.

Chenot Palace, Weggis, Switzerland

Located on the wondrous shores of Lake Lucerne, adjacent to the awe-inspiring Mount Rigi and Mount Pilatus, the opulent Chenot Palace Weggis is a luxurious health and wellness destination.

Palace guests enjoy bespoke seven-day transformational wellness programmes in this breathtaking lakeside setting. The programmes optimise physical and metal performance based on the latest advancements in Western medicine and diagnostics and Chinese and alternative medicine.

The transformative programmes include advanced detox, prevention and ageing and recover and energise that nurture your physical, mental and emotional health.

Each room in the Palace has been designed in accordance with the Chenot philosophy to promote deep relaxation and regeneration. It is simply the perfect place to start your wellness journey.

RAKxa Wellness Retreat, Thailand

Enveloped in serenity and calm, RAKxa Wellness Retreat sit by the splendid Chao Phraya River, near Bangkok.

This luxurious wellness retreat is a sanctuary that blends into the jungle providing a peaceful oasis to restore. It blends advanced medical therapies with traditional Thia healing and programmes include meditation and hydrotherapy.

Stay in one of the luxury villas or expansive residencies, designed to invoke deep sleep, with private terraces overlooking the lush jungle.

January is the perfect time to visit for a medical spa holiday, to enjoy some winter sun and set the tone for a health-conscious year.

If you’re looking to go on a luxury health and wellness holiday this year, speak to one of our experienced advisors to help tailor the perfect trip for you.