In the News: New Luxury Spa in Bath

I have long had particular affection for the English city of Bath, with its Georgian crescents of golden Cotswold limestone. The Romans built a bathing complex over a thermal spring in the first century A.D. Early 2015 will see the opening of The Gainsborough Bath Spa, a 99-room hotel adjacent to the original Roman bath. This will contain a 14,000-square-foot spa complex where guests will be able to bathe in three therapeutic pools fed by the warm, mineral-rich waters of the spring. The spa will feature 11 treatment rooms, an ice chamber, a steam room and a fitness center. Perhaps next spring I will find time to take the waters and to report on their healing properties.

This article appeared in the October 2014 print edition of Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report under the headline “In the News: Luxury Spa in Bath."