Well-being
Mountain spas: 15 spas to discover!
Holidays are a time for yourself. A time to rest, recharge your batteries and clear your head. But a healthy mind needs a healthy body. There’s nothing like a trip to a mountain spa to finally take care of your body. A space entirely dedicated to your pleasure, which is becoming increasingly common in the mountains. Selection of 15 mountain spas in all the massifs!
Saint-Gervais
#1 – Les Bains du Mont-Blanc
Completely refurbished, the Mont-Blanc Baths offer you a unique sensory experience. Experience the story of water’s journey from the peaks of the Mont-Blanc massif to the bowels of the Earth, which is reflected in the Thermes de Saint-Gervais.
New pools and additional relaxation areas have been created, while preserving the historic heritage of this spectacular 10-hectare establishment. Benefiting from thermal water renowned for its benefits since 1807, the centre also offers relaxation areas alongside its treatments. Massages, scrubs, modelling, everything is dedicated to well-being and zen.
All the treatments are based on the Saint-Gervais range and its restorative thermal spring water. So it’s a real ‘made in Mont Blanc’ fitness experience that the Spa offers you.
La Clusaz
#2 – Cristal Spa
Spanning over 450m², the Cristal Spa’s Wellbeing area invites you to experience the ultimate in relaxation.
In the heart of a wood and stone décor, the heated swimming pool guarantees gentle moments of bubbling and dreaming with its massaging and de-stressing jets. The more active guests will be seduced by the counter-current swimming option and the gym with bike and treadmill.
Last but not least, the hammam is nestled in a rock crystal grotto – a real wonder!
Val Thorens
#3 – The Koh-I Nor
To enter the spa is to live a unique experience, 800 m² dedicated to a new art of living.
A haven of peace dedicated to gentleness, relaxation and absolute serenity, the Koh-I Nor Spa boasts two swimming pools, a fitness room, a sauna, a hammam, a jacuzzi, experience showers, a salt wall, an ice fountain, a relaxation area and a solarium.
In terms of treatments, Valmont, the Swiss anti-ageing specialist, and Cinq Mondes will be putting their expertise to good use in the massage treatments.
Val d’Isère
#4 – Centre Aquasportif Oxygen
A cocoon of well-being welcomes lovers of calm and relaxation to the heart of the Centre Aquasportif Oxygen.
Saunas, hammam, jacuzzi, scented pool… The Wellness Area is dedicated to 250 m² of rejuvenation.
Wooden decking, soft shapes and picture windows create an exclusive atmosphere tinged with intimacy and full of oxygen. The Espace Bien-Être offers a range of massages and body treatments for total relaxation.
Les Arcs 1950
#5 – Les Sources de Marie
Covering an area of almost 1000m², the Deep Nature spa at the Résidence Les Sources de Marie (Pierre et Vacances) boasts spectacular architecture.
Discover and experience well-being in a mineral universe, a labyrinth of intimate caves where pools and treatment rooms have been installed. A delightful moment, facing the mountains, where you can relax and let go.
Saint Martin de Belleville
#6 – La Bèla Vya
Set in a mountain pasture, La Bouitte, which means “little house” in Savoyard dialect, has become a firm favourite with gourmets. It’s also an intimate mountain spa, a place to relax with a tempting programme of baths, massages, sauna and open-air jacuzzi.
In the moonlight, with a breathtaking view of the cirque of illuminated mountains, a unique sense of well-being. As for skincare, the ‘Meilleure Nature’ range, developed by Valérie Mallens, the artisan perfumer from Asinerie des Alpes, features a composition based on fireweed, a plant with matifying, lifting and firming properties.
Bagnères de Bigorre
#7 – Aquensis Spa Thermal
Near Grand Tourmalet, the Aquensis centre is a relaxation area built around a 300 m² pool, supplied with thermal water and enlivened by misting, jets, counter-currents, etc. The relaxation pool, equipped with hydro-massages and Aqua musique (diffusion of relaxing music underwater), offers total rejuvenation. The relaxation pool is equipped with hydro-massages and Aqua musique (underwater diffusion of relaxing music) for total rejuvenation. The large terrace houses two traditional Finnish saunas, a large central shower and jacuzzis with panoramic views over the spa town.
Corrençon en Vercors
#8 – The Clarines Spa
The first Spa hotel in the Vercors has no reason to be ashamed of its illustrious predecessors.
A natural, refined decor with qualified staff and equipment. Sauna, hammam, whirlpool bath, a wide range of Cinq Monde treatments and massages for your pleasure.
Gérardmer
#9 – Les Jardins de Sophie
In Gérardmer, one of the biggest resorts in the Vosges, Les Jardins de Sophie, a hotel and gourmet restaurant, offers a mountain spa ideal for relaxing after skiing. You’ll find a wellness area with heated indoor pool, steam room, sauna, relaxation room, chromotherapy and fitness room. By appointment, you can also enjoy treatments and massages in partnership with the Cinq Mondes brand.
Ax les Thermes
#10 – Les Bains du Couloubret
The Wellness area is a calm and welcoming space in this famous spa in the Pyrenees, entirely dedicated to your well-being and beauty. Modelage, effleurement, kneading, scrubbing… A world of relaxation where you can abandon yourself to expert hands.
Le Sauze 1400
#11 – Montana Spa by Montana Chalet Hôtel****
In a cocooning and relaxing atmosphere, this 500 m² sensory spa is located within the 4**** Montana Chalet Hôtel.
It includes a sensory pool, a counter-current swimming pool, a hammam with starry sky, a sauna, sensory showers and a snow cabin (the only one of its kind in France). The water area is complemented by cabins offering face and body treatments by Pure Altitude.
Brides les Bains
#12 – The Grand Spa Thermal
With its 600m² Aquatics Area, the Grand Spa Thermal de Brides-les-Bains is turning a page in its history to become the largest thermal spa in the Alps, and one of the largest thermal spas in France thanks to its vast spaces, its renowned thermal expertise and now its new equipment.
This thermal spa is based on the renowned expertise of the Thermes de Brides-les-Bains and combines slimming and rejuvenation.
Monetier
#13 – The Grands Bains
The Grands Bains in Le Monêtier got a makeover in 2016. Its huge outdoor pool of over 300 m², accessible all year round, offers an extraordinary view of the mountains of the Southern Alps. Inside, the pool is also over 300 m², fed by natural hot water and featuring a jacuzzi, an underwater massage circuit, bubble beds, underwater column showers, micro-bubble and swan neck zones… Not forgetting the Roman trilogy (frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium), hammam, musical grotto and misting.
Courchevel
#14 – Aquamotion
Moments of emotion, sensations and relaxation await you at Courchevel’s Aquamotion. A place of well-being for young and old alike, with a host of areas dedicated to relaxation.
The indoor/outdoor pool, permanently heated to 32°C, features aerobaths, a central geyser and swan-neck showers. Extend this moment by immersing yourself in the sea grotto, where the intimate atmosphere invites you to meditate, the ideal place to restore the body’s biological balance.
Continue your relaxation session in the sauna, hammam or caldarium.
Les Arcs
#15 – Nama Springs
Take the time to enter this new wellness area just created in the 5* Edenarc residence. By developing a bathhouse concept in the tradition of Japanese onsens, Nama Springs invites you to experience a whole range of water-based rituals: a sensory isolation pool, an Aufguss Theater sauna in which the sauna master’s performance radically changes the experience, a salt crystal sauna, a Finnish-style infrared sauna, an Indian hammam, a forest sauna, a corridor of sensory showers, etc.
After skiing, immerse yourself in the benevolence of this new aquatic universe.