74 Long recovery spas

Long recovery spas

These revitalizing resorts mean it when they invite guests to “stay a while.”

Spas and wellness resorts are promoting new treatments for long COVID, extending the stay of their guests to allow full recovery.

At RAKxa medical spa outside Bangkok, a new COVID-19 health rejuvenation program is growing in popularity. The group offers a three-day holistic operation to restore lung capacity using hyperbaric chambers of concentrated oxygen, blood ozone infusions and chest-muscle strengthening exercises in an Olympicgrade gym. Services are tailored to each guest’s needs.

The SHA Wellness Clinic on the coast of Spain started offering a seven-day post-COVID program in May 2021. Guests are tested upon arrival and then given a course of treatments based on the results. The assessment includes a stress test, carotid ultrasound and bloodwork, the results of which could lead to treatments ranging from reflexology to Watsu therapy to “brain photobiomodulation” that stimulates and regenerates brain cells.

The Lanserhof resort in the Austrian Alps offers a two-week retreat claiming to cure the effects of long COVID. Traditionally an upscale, expensive destination

for detoxifying body treatments, it has devised this new offering to include personalized energy cuisine, a chewing trainer, healing massage, breathing therapy, urinalysis to identify infections or kidney problems, and personal training sessions, depending on the patient’s symptoms.

Why it’s interesting After a period of pause in travel and hospitality, resorts are reframing their offerings to a new wave of consumer wellness needs. Extended stays for medical wellness and rejuvenation are breaking the mold in hospitality.