May Fair Spa

The subterranean spa within the luxury May Fair Hotel offers a compact gym, herbal sauna and a good size aromatic steam room as well as treatment rooms with soothing day spa packages called things like the Jasmine Ritual of Relaxation, and the Frangipani and Lotus Flower Ceremony. Sensibly, the sauna and steam room are on a separate corridor away from the treatment rooms which keeps the noise down while you're drifting off to la-la land. Make the most of the spa facilities - and maximise relaxation time - by arriving an hour before your treatment to steam, sweat, pad around in a towelling robe and chill out in the dimly lit relaxation room with its six heated ceramic loungers. If you're a hotel guest, and you're having a treatment at the spa these facilities are included in the treatment price (otherwise you have to pay extra to use the sauna, steam room, and relaxation room but you get free use of the 24-hour gym). If you've got time, opt for a day spa package - the Jetlag Reviver is ideal for time zone travellers - or check out the spa treatment menu for shorter specialist treatments. Facials, for example, range from relaxing Pevonia treatments to the more invasive micro-dermabrasion, oxygen therapy, and the CACI "non surgical face lift". The May Fair Spa also offers a good range of treatments for men as well as some more unusual options like the Moroccan Steam Cleansing Ritual - enjoy alone or with a friend - when you'll be guided to the Rassul chamber, or hammam room, to apply your own scrub, clay, shea butter and organic oil.