European Spa Gold List: Bamford Wellness Spa, UK

Best for: Understated elegance and excellence

The brainchild of entrepreneur and philanthropist Lady Carole Bamford, OBE, British wellness brand Bamford goes beyond spa to offer a curated collection of ‘conscious living’ products, including natural body and skincare, clothing and homeware.

It currently operates four luxury spas, two in the UK and two in the US, as well as five stores around the world. It’s refurbished flagship, the serene Bamford Wellness Spa, located at the famous Daylesford Farm in Gloucestershire – home to one of the UK’s leading organic farming brands, reported a record £43.1m (€50.4m) in sales during lockdown, was refurbished in 2021.

Elegantly refurbished and beautifully understated, Bamford Wellness Spa has been doubled in size, offering guests 1,550sqm of space in which to escape and relax. Housed in the farm’s original agricultural buildings, natural materials are paired with objets d’art to give the spa’s soft, white interiors a serene ambience, accented by the brand’s iconic green palette and its founder’s love of heart motifs.

The spa’s 12 treatment rooms are set across two floors along with several beautiful spaces for wellness classes. A Wellness café, The Orchard Bar, is a social hub and retail area and at the centre of the spa is a bijou wet spa zone, offering a herbal steam room, a crystal sauna and a wellness pool supplied by KLAFS.

As well as successfully reopening the flagship spa, behind the scenes the Bamford team broke ground this summer on a stand-alone state-of-the art wellness centre that is set to serve an exclusive membership looking for the very latest preventative health regimes and expertise.

SPA STATISTICS

Spa size: 1,550sqm Facilities: 12 treatment rooms; hydro pool, sauna and steam rooms; yoga and Pilates studios; Bamford Wellness Tipi, Crystal Healing Hut Product partners: Kure Bazaar, Dermalux Other suppliers: KLAFS, Gharieni

www.bamford.com/uk