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The Daily Telegraph
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02 January 2010
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Six Senses Destination Spa, Phuket, Thailand
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This delightful resort could be the template for the feel-good holiday destination of the future. It combines the opportunity to live really healthily, with access to a phalanx of visiting alternative practitioners, while staying in luxury accommodation in a sprawling villa compound overlooking the beach. In your private garden an assortment of daybeds flank an infinity pool which laps just feet from your mosquito-netted bed.
You pad through a central courtyard to a wonderful bathroom with sauna and an open-air bath - blissful in the early morning sunshine. At the centre of the resort lie gardens where organic herbs and vegetables are grown, as well as an open-air restaurant, pool, library, and excellent Kinesis-equipped gym (there's also a very good jungle gym).
The large spa village with stream, shady trees, flowering bushes and a meditation garden, has four sections, devoted to Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indian, Thai and Indonesian-themed treatments. Presiding over it all is a first-class Australian naturopath, nutritionist and iridologist. The Greek god-type in charge of the fitness programme once ran across the Gobi Desert (so no excuses for you, then) and the chef produces sensational, mostly vegetarian, food. A butler will check to make sure you don't eat anything that's not on your diet sheet.
Seven nights full board with two daily spa treatments and daily activities costs from GBP2,450 through Cleveland Collection (0845 450 5732; www.clevelandcollection.co.uk)
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