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SPEND IT<br />

SPA TIME<br />

WHATLEY MANOR’S<br />

AQUARIAS SPAorget the large, more<br />

famous but terribly formulaic spas – Whatley Manor’s<br />

FAquarias is the one those in the know favour,<br />

for its relaxed luxurious intimacy, refreshing<br />

lack of noisy American spa junkies and<br />

hen parties, and wonderful treatments by<br />

therapists who are among the very best in the<br />

whole of the UK – including Ila Therapist of the<br />

Year award–winner Sarah Hickman.<br />

Located in a courtyard of this picture postcard pretty<br />

Cotswolds manor house, it features a hydrotherapy<br />

pool, tepidarium, a wave dream sensory room and all<br />

the usual thermal cabins you could desire, plus a gym<br />

with Power Plate and there are Yoga, Pilates, personal<br />

training and Tai Chi on offer too.<br />

There’s a wide range of treatments – including<br />

uber-luxurious La Prairie facials, Ila scrubs and wraps<br />

and signature Body Rituals which are absolutely worth<br />

treating yourself to, for a couple of hours of sensory<br />

bliss, while your chakras are worked on, body taken<br />

into a trance with deeply relaxing massage strokes and,<br />

depending on the Ritual chosen, invigorated with salt<br />

scrubs or wraps and finished off with Shirodhara, which<br />

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