Spa / Wellness

Sweet as ... girls can do just about anything they desire or imagine in New Zealand.

Canterbury – New Zealand’s largest region – rises from the Pacific Ocean, sweeps across vast plains, through braided river valleys, and climbs into the magnificent Southern Alps that divide the length of the South Island.

Like all best kept secrets word eventually gets out, so it's no surprise - with luxury travel now one of the country's fastest growing tourism sectors - that the world is waking up to New Zealand's luxury travel possibilities.

What better way to slow down and get back to the nature that New Zealand's renowned for, than relaxing in an outdoor bath under the stars?

Hell's Gate and Wai Ora Spa, Tikitere is a unique place of extreme contrasts. Visitors walk past steaming fumeroles and pools of boiling mud so violent they are unnerving.

Inspiring Pacific and indigenous influences add originality to the New Zealand spa experience

Thermal springs, resulting from New Zealand's location on the Pacific Rim of Fire, are found the length of the country including Rotorua, Taupo Te Aroha and Hanmer.

Rotorua's QE Health offers highly-specialised medical spa treatments for arthritis, rheumatism and other disorders involving movement.

New Zealand, spa destination with a difference. While many spas worldwide are manufactured, New Zealand's approach has been to enhance the existing natural environment.

New Zealand spas and health retreats with accommodation, contacts listing. Luxury hotels and lodges excluded, listed separately.