Best Picks for Spa Resorts and Villages in France

If you’re planning a ski and spa break in France this winter, this article will guide you through a number of spas in France and Alps region, including high end spa resort hotels to charming small spa villages that have been offering great relaxing holidays to the visitors since the Roman Age. Below are some of the best spas or “bains”in French to choose for a super relaxing vacation. You can sail with Dover ferries and reach your favourite destination for a wonderful experience of spa holidays.

Top Spas and spa villages in France:

Les Sources Des Caudalie:

This is a four star hotel situated at a little distance from Bourdeaux that also offers a luxurious spa for the visitors and if you choose this place to stay on your vacation, they will offer you a unique combination of spa treatment and wine. Here, you’ll enjoy a special treatment called “vinotherapie” where the visitors are offered Merlot wraps, crushed Cabernet scrub, red wine baths, barrel baths, or Sauvignon massage. The resort also has two restaurants, a bar and a beautiful cigar lounge.

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This was the first spa village in France that maintains its significance as an epicentre of relaxation even today. Thousands of visitors every year dip in the waters here and it’s located in the vast Landes forest, near the Pyrenees and the Atlantic coast. Visiting the place on a weekend break during August to enjoy events like “La Feria,” or the bullfights will be a great experience.

AIX-LES-BAINS

Known as the second busiest spa town in France, the city has many thermal spa resorts offering spectacular view of the Alpine Mont Blanc. There you’ll get health treatment packages like quit smoking, lose weight or simply go for relaxing treatments.

EVIAN-LES-BAINS

This is probably one of the best cities to go for a spa break. Here, the thermal spas offer several treatment packages, including some great mother-and-child and father-and-child deals. Enjoying the energising treatments like “re-birth day” package etc. will be a great experience.

Ski and Thermal Spa Resorts in the French Alps:

Long before the city and village spa resorts in France came to offer beauty treatments, the French Alps were the only place to go for spa treatments because of the mineral quality in their natural thermal waters.

Here we will discuss some of the premium resorts with both wonderful spa environment and best ski slopes where you can enjoy a combined spa and ski break on your next vacation.

BRIDES-LES-BAINS

The Village:

You can avail a high speed gondola from this historic spa town and reach Méribel, in the centre of the massive Trois-Vallées ski area. Or if you’re not interested in skiing, still you can enjoy a very special mountain experience in Brides-les-Bains. Alternatively, you can opt for a spa treatment and pamper yourself with a relaxing massage therapy, paying the same value as a day’s ski pass whilst enjoying superb mountain views.

The spa treatments:

This place is also famous for its thermal spa treatments with anti-cellulite and circulation-boosting properties.

SAINT GERVAIS-LES-BAINS

The village:

This will give you the impression of an upmarket winter sports town.

This is a busy Alpine town of St. Gervais that famous for its hot springs and spa treatments. The place offers 500 kms of slopes and access to Les Houches in the Chamonix valley. Even the non-skiers will find this place absolutely fantastic as they can use either the tramway or cable-car and access miles of excellent snow-shoe walks, apart from enjoying relaxed lunches in a hill-top restaurant.

Some other attractions are Chamonix’s fantastic shops and entertainment. It will take just 20 minutes by car, or a short train journey from the spa resort.

The Thermal Spa:

The water of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is specially beneficial for medical treatments, particularly for dermatology, plus also cures respiratory diseases and rheumatism. The spa has created treatment formulas using this thermal water that will easily fit into your budget.

After getting the therapies applied on your body, relax on the lounges, enjoy a herbal tea and feel the benefits of the thermal waters on your body. Or, you can go for Here, you sauna bath or a short hydrating cream facial.

Board a cheap flight or ferries to France from the UK to cross the English Channel and head towards the spa resorts and villages in France and its surrounding areas.