18 Best Spa Days in Cornwall for 2024
A day at the beach has a massive positive impact on our wellbeing, so where better to enjoy a spa day than a coastal retreat? And Cornwall day spas are some of the best…
Cornwall is known for its gorgeous beaches, and you’ll find some of them here: 4 Best Beaches in Cornwall. If you’re looking to properly relax while visiting the coast, here’s a rundown of Cornwall’s 18 best coastal spas to treat body, mind and soul, and what makes them unique.
18 of the Best Spa Days in Cornwall
Whether it’s a dip in a heated indoor pool, relaxing in the steam room, or enjoying a calming massage, these are some of the best spa days in Cornwall to help you unwind…
1. C Bay Spa, Carbis Bay
This hotel earned worldwide notoriety in 2021 when it welcomed world leaders for a G7 Summit. The politicians probably didn’t have time to check out its fabulous two-storey C Bay Spa which features a hydro-pool, a heated outdoor pool set into the cliff, a sauna pod and candlelit treatment rooms…
Unique feature: A walk on the privately owned Blue Flag Beach that sits beneath the hotel is one of the most relaxing treats on offer.
You can book your spa day here.
2. Watergate Bay Hotel, Newquay
The Swim Club is Watergate Bay’s unique take on the spa concept, with a sauna and hot tub on the cliff top and a 25-metre seaview pool. There’s a Finnish sauna and Canadian hot tub complementing face, body, hand and foot treatments, focusing on energising treatments using ethical, sustainable products, laced with hydrating samphire and spike moss.
Unique feature: The spa uses its own land&water bath and body products, creating the essence of where the land meets the sea.
You can book your spa day here.
3. The Headland Hotel, Newquay
The new(ish) £10 million Aqua Club boasts six pools, a Cornish salt steam room, a hydrotherapy spa pool, a Swedish sauna, hot tub and aromatherapy showers.
Complete with a treatment room, there are dedicated therapists and unique treatments, or choose from three different VIP packages for the ultimate pampering session.
Unique feature: The VIP suite for couples offers complete seclusion.
You can book your spa day here.
18 of the Best Spa Days in Cornwall
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4. Spa at St Enodoc, Rock
Open seven days a week, the Spa at St Enodoc is a hidden treasure offering an impressive range of treatments from hot stone massages, manicures and waxing to anti-aging facials and full body scrubs.
A wide range of beauty and wellbeing rituals are available at St Enodoc. There are beauty regime treatments like waxing, tinting, Elemis facials, manicures, pedicures and a range of signature regimens.
Unique feature: Deep tissue back or full-body massages plus the all-over, two-hour Paradise Escape that treats you from head to toe.
You can book your spa day here.
5. Crantock Bay Spa, Crantock
Overlooking Crantock Beach, Crantock Bay Spa offers ethical and award-winning Made for Life by Spiezia Organics products hand blended in Cornwall. There’s also a relaxation area and 12.5m indoor heated pool.
Unique feature: Try the Surfer’s Soother to restore sun and sea-stressed skin and Maternal Joy for cherishing mothers-to-be.
You can book your spa day here.
6. Bedruthan, Trenance
Part Nordic thermal therapy, part Cornish coastal wellbeing experience, the Bedruthan spa has a hydro pool with Atlantic views, steam room, sauna and caldarium plus a range of Ayurvedic style treatments including massages and facials using wild-crafted products, a hammam and guided meditation. The spa has its own Oula range of beauty products.
Unique feature: The sensory spa garden is filled with fragrant flowers and herbs, and seven wellness stations, outdoor showers, cedar hot tubs, fire pit and a Scandi-style sauna.
7. Fowey Hall Hotel, Fowey
Fowey Hall Hotel and Spa has more of a family focus than the average hotel providing Cornish spa breaks. There’s a creche and play areas among the facilities allowing parents to unwind while their kids are taken good care of.
Unique feature: Biotec facial, which uses micro-current to stimulate production of collagen and elastin.
You can book your visit here.
8. Scarlet Hotel, Mawgan Porth
Look up luxury spa in Cornwall and the Scarlet Hotel will probably top the list. Cliff-top outdoor wild pool, filtered by reeds, cliff-top cedar-clad hot tubs with views across the Atlantic beyond. There’s a hammam for steam baths and rhassoul for mud treatments. The relaxation room is cocoon-like pods that swing from the ceiling while you wait for your treatment.
Unique feature: Treatments draw inspiration from Ayurveda, the ancient Indian health system, including a doshic diagnosis to determine your constitution and your ideal therapeutic blend.
You can book your spa day here.
9. Fistral Beach Hotel, Newquay
Sitting beside one of the most famous surfing beaches in the UK, Fistral Beach Hotel’s spa treatments feature award-winning Gaia Skincare products. There is a serene indoor pool, a vitality pool and a sauna. This is an adults-only hotel, so you can expect the utmost peace and quiet.
Unique feature: As befitting a spa so close to the home of British surfing, you can book yourself a ‘QuickSilver Surfer Massage’ to treat those tired muscles.
You can book your spa day here.
10. The Carlyon Bay Hotel and Spa, St Austell
Carlyon Bay Hotel has an all-year-round heated outdoor pool, as well as an indoor pool with a bar, a spa bath, experience showers, a steam room and a sauna.
Unique feature: The hotel is home to its own links golf course.
You can book your visit here.
11. Hotel Meudon, Mawnan Smith
This spa hotel lies close to one of the county’s most peaceful beaches in a subtropical garden. Meudon’s philosophy is to nourish both body and mind. Activities like paddle boarding, yoga classes and wild swimming complement the list of spa treatments.
Unique feature: A subtropical garden in a hidden valley offers wellbeing from the start.
You can book your spa day here.
12. The Cornwall Hotel & Spa, Saint Austell
The Clearing Spa is at the centre of The Cornwall Hotel Spa and Hotel’s 43-acres. The spa is set within a walled garden and stars an infinity pool with floor-to-ceiling windows. There’s also a gym in the 18th-century former stable block, plus tennis, steam and sauna — and, a yoga and pilates studio hidden in the woods.
Unique feature: The spa uses Caudalie’s wine-based products, cabernet body scrubs and Premier Cru facials.
13. St Michael’s Resort, Falmouth
This state-of-the-art spa is home to the South West’s biggest hydrothermal pool. Plus, there are rituals designed for men and women. There’s a herbal Finnish sauna, an outdoor barrel sauna with views across Falmouth Bay and a Cornish sea salt steam room.
The ELEMIS Spa recommends body polishes and exfoliations using Cornish sea salt or harvested seaweed, to luxurious massages using aromatherapy oils, hot stones and body wraps. Also helps that it’s in one of the best seaside towns in Cornwall!
Unique feature: The hydrotherapy pool boasts 21 massage stations, targeting individual muscle groups. You’ll never want to leave.
14. The Pig, Harlyn Bay
The Potting Shed spa at The Pig sits in walled gardens designed to be part of your spa experience. Once you’ve enjoyed the peace of the gardens head into the shed for facials, massages and body wraps made with ingredients taken from the wild Atlantic below.
Unique feature: The products are made from hand-harvested seaweed.
You can book your visit here.
15. The Nare, Veryan-in-Roseland
A traditional spa, this is home to stress-busting massages, prescriptive facials and reflexology using up-to-date skincare.
Set in a 1920s classic Cornish country house hotel, there’s a choice of outdoor and indoor pools with a menu of massages, pedicures, manicures and facials.
Unique feature: Take time out for some fun on the croquet lawn overlooking Carne Beach.
You can book your visit here.
16. St Moritz, Trebetherick
This art deco white-washed hotel sits in what has been dubbed Cornwall’s Saint-Tropez, so it makes sense it would be home to the only Cowshed spa outside of the A-list Soho House properties.
The spa and hotel feature an indoor and outdoor pool, a newly renovated gym, a sauna and steam rooms. The range of treatments feature Cowshed, Jennifer Young, Raised Spirit CBD, Lava Shell, Guam and Medik8.
Unique feature: Choose one of six bespoke scents tailored specially for your treatment.
You can book your visit here.
17. Mullion Cove Hotel, Helston
A multi-million-pound renovation in 2019 included the addition of a new two-storey spa featuring a wall of windows that showcase views of the Lizard Peninsula, which forms part of the world-famous Jurassic Coast.
There is a gym, a hydrotherapy infinity pool, and indoor and outdoor showers as well as an alfresco wooden hot tub and deck.
Unique feature: Himalayan rock-salt laconium (dry sweat) treatments.
You can book a visit here.
18. Merchants Manor Spa, Falmouth
Falmouth’s ‘grown-up getaway’, hotel has undergone a complete refurbishment in the last decade. The spa offers an impressive array of treatments. and there’s a small subtropical garden to get lost in while you wait for your appointment.
Unique feature: Get away from it all in the timber-clad ‘suite retreats’ for maximum privacy.
You can book your spa day here.
Tempted by one of these 18 best spa days in Cornwall? We don’t blame you! If you have been to any of these coastal retreats, or plan to go soon, let us know how your experience was… enjoy!
Quick List: 18 of the Best Spa Days in Cornwall
- C Bay Spa, Carbis Bay, St Ives
- Watergate Bay Hotel, Newquay
- The Headland Hotel, Newquay
- Spa at St Enodoc, Rock
- Crantock Bay Spa, Crantock
- Bedruthan, Mawgan Porth
- Fowey Hall Hotel Spa, Fowey
- Scarlet Hotel, Mawgan Porth
- Fistral Beach Hotel, Newquay
- The Carlyon Bay Hotel and Spa, St Austell
- Hotel Meudon, Mawnan Smith
- The Cornwall Hotel & Spa, Saint Austell
- St Michael’s Resort, Falmouth
- The Pig, Harlyn Bay
- The Nare, Veryan-in-Roseland
- St Moritz, Trebetherick
- Mullion Cove Hotel, Helston
- Merchants Manor Spa, Falmouth
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