Spa
London’s best spas and treatments, covering hotel day passes, private hire and mobile therapists who come to your room. Professional treatments only, with the hotel policy to check before you book.
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The policy is the point. A hotel spa will sometimes sell a day pass to non residents and sometimes will not, and the same building can do both depending on the day and on how full the hotel is. Where that rule is published, it is quoted here rather than paraphrased.
Spa days covers the passes, private spas the rooms you take over entirely, and mobile massage the therapists who travel, where the thing to check is your own hotel’s policy on visitors rather than the therapist’s.
The barbers sit here too, and they are the most clearly priced trade in London: twenty pounds buys fifteen minutes and two hundred and twenty five buys ninety, at shops that both print the minutes next to the money.
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Twenty pounds or two hundred and twenty five, both published, and the difference is mostly time. Three barbers checked at source, including the oldest barbering business in the world.
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Mobile Massage in London: A Therapist to Your Hotel Room
A qualified massage therapist will come to your London hotel room, often within the hour. How it works, what it costs, and the hotel policy to check first.
The Best Spa Days in London, and What They Actually Cost
London's best hotel spas sell day passes without a room booking. The Corinthia, Bulgari and The Ned compared, with prices, and the jet lag treatments now on offer.
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