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From the top of Malabar Hill on Lord Howe’s northern tip, a mere 208 metres high, I survey the landscape before me.

By Deborah Dickson-Smith
Categories Australia, Destinations, Great Escapes, New South Wales, Pacific, Spa breaks, Wildlife holidays

The Dusit Thani is Bangkok’s flagship hotel, designed with a traditional Thai influence with intricate carvings adorning the doors and turrets glittering here and there. A doorman in royal Thai costume (including pointed headgear) greets me as I enter the grand foyer and escorts me in.

By Deborah Dickson-Smith
Categories Destinations, Spa breaks, Thailand

But really – yoga on elephants? What on earth were they thinking?

By Julie Miller
Categories Health and fitness, Spa breaks, Thailand

At Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa in Tropical North Queensland, Kris McIntyre discovers a unique spa treatment and an authentic Aboriginal eco-tourism experience.

By Kris McIntyre
Categories Australia, Cultural, Pacific, Queensland, Spa breaks, Type of Travel

Hong Kong is a great city to have a spa-rty in. And it’s an amazing place in which to ignite all the senses if you have loads of money

By Sue Ostler
Categories China, Hong Kong, Spa breaks

Britain’s only natural thermal waters allows the opportunity to bathe as the Celts and Romans did over 2000 years ago

By Sue Ostler
Categories England, Spa breaks

if you are looking for a less traditional route to explore this vast continent, we’ve discovered our own ‘Big Five’ for the body and soul

By Kris McIntyre
Categories Africa, Destinations, Exotic Destinations, Great Escapes, South Africa, Spa breaks

Kris McIntyre road-tests an upmarket health and wellness retreat in Bali that is well and truly Goddess-ready. COMO Shambhala Estate is the flagship property of …

By Kris McIntyre
Categories Bali, Indonesia, Spa breaks

“India has a hair fetish” writes ABC broadcaster Sarah Macdonald in her subcontinent travelogue, Holy Cow (Broadway Books). “Every Sunday the parks are full of girls sitting in a circle massaging oil into each other’s scalps, and the salons buzz to the sound of hair dryers.” On the streets of Mumbai, India’s financial and glamour capital, there are makeshift barber shops on the footpath and girls in bright kurtas push past with liquorice locks.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories India, Mumbai, Spa breaks

Julie Moline tries tomato paste under the heat lamp – and a spritz of red wine. Bored with traditional Swedish massage? Tried the hot-rocks massage, …

By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Spa breaks, USA