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new club and spa for chester re-opening of
The city of Chester will soon be home
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to a new £8m, 14 treatment room spa The Bath Priory’s Garden Spa will be
and gym, which is due to open on the .UK re-opening this September following a
outskirts of the city this November. complete refurbishment.
The Club and Spa at Hoole Hall will The spa will offer two reception
be built in the grounds of the former areas, four treatment rooms, an indoor
18th century Hoole Hall manor house, swimming pool, sauna, elliptical steam
which is now the Doubletree by Hilton pod and changing facilities.
Chester hotel and restaurant. There will also be a brand new gym,
Currently under construction,
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consisting of two rooms offering
facilities will include a spacious
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resistance and cardio equipment, as well
Technogym-equipped gym, including The £8m spa and gym is due to as Technogym’s Kinesis cable system.
Visio software, a high impact group open in Chester in November The Garden Spa, as the name
exercise studio and a yoga room. suggests, has been transformed to
Located within a 25,000sq m area in This is complemented by steamroom, showcase the hotel’s beautiful
the hotel’s walled garden, the spa will thermal rooms, sauna, spa pool. There is landscaped gardens, which can be
offer a couple’s suite, rasul chamber, also an indoor pool, a hydrotherapy pool viewed through the large windows by
teuco bath room, hammam, meditation and a Watsu part indoor part outdoor guests working out in the gym or
room, pedicure and manicure room and pool. Pevonia and Anne Semonin Paris relaxing in the pool.
relaxation lounge. A specially crafted will supply the products used in the spa. The spa will offer a full range of beauty
range of natural treatments will be The club and spa will be operated by and massage treatments, using Decléor,
available in the 14 treatment rooms. Sanguine Hospitality Ltd, as is the hotel. Li’Tya and Jessica Nails products.
fi tness fi rst and bannatyne’s launch non-invasive treatments
Health club operator Fitness First has extended its spa and
beauty offering through a new partnership with cosmetic
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procedure specialist Hylagen.
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The non-invasive treatments, offered via Hylagen
concessions in 17 clubs, will include teeth whitening, dermal
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fi llers and hyperhidrosis treatments (for excessive sweating).
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The services will be available to members and non-members.
The Bannatyne Group will also be introducing non-surgical
aesthetic treatments thanks to its new partnership with
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cosmetic giant Collagenics. The services – which will include
skincare procedures such as peels and injectable treatments
– will initially be available in nine of the group’s spas. Fitness First’s offer will include teeth whitening
bannatyne opens latest spa in edinburgh
The Bannatyne Group offi cially opened The Edinburgh spa is the 30th
its latest health and wellbeing spa in Bannatyne Spa to be opened in the UK
Edinburgh on 16 June. and is part of a £16m investment made
Based at Bannatyne’s Queen Street by the group in the last eight months.
health club, facilities at the £60,000 spa This has included a £2.5m hotel and
include two treatment rooms and a dual spa development in Hastings, and a
treatment room for couples or friends new £500,000 spa and extension to the
to enjoy a treatment simultaneously, a fl agship health club in Darlington.
spray tan room, pedicure and manicure Duncan Bannatyne says: “We’re
thrones, and a relaxation room with operating in a competitive marketplace,
heated tiled loungers. but health and wellbeing remain top of
Employing six therapists, the spa the agenda for many people and our spas
offers a range of treatments including and health clubs continue to trade well.
complementary therapies and specialist The recession will not be affecting our
Facilities at the new spa include a massage, plus beauty treatments such as ongoing investment plans, as we aim for
dual treatment room for couples waxing, nail care and make-up. further growth and expansion.”
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