Wellness resorts & clinics
Wellness resorts worth the journey
From Ayurveda hospitals in Kerala to medical clinics in the Alps — compare each house by what kind of place it is, who it suits, how long people stay and where a quote starts.
34 houses
Ayurveda hospital
Kerala, India
Somatheeram Ayurveda Village
An Ayurveda hospital on a hillock at Chowara Beach. Its About page calls it the "World’s First Ayurveda Hospital with a Resort Ambiance" — its own claim, worded differently across its pages, one of which limits it to India.
FromUS$2,060per personViewAyurveda hospital
Kerala, India
Kalari Kovilakom
An Ayurveda hospital run by CGH Earth in what it describes as a 200-year-old palace near Kollengode, with 19 rooms, 12 treatment rooms and a 14-day minimum stay. The NABH certificate the site links ran until 28 January 2026.
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Kerala, India
Carnoustie Ayurveda & Wellness Resort
A villa resort with its own Ayurveda spa on the Arabian Sea shore at Marari, Alappuzha, set in what it describes as 25 acres of landscaped gardens.
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Rishikesh, India
Ananda in the Himalayas
A wellness retreat on the 100-acre former palace estate of the Maharaja of Tehri-Garhwal, overlooking Rishikesh and the Ganga valley. Its press kit says it opened in 2000 as India’s first luxury wellness retreat.
FromUS$3,440per personViewRetreat resort
Rishikesh, India
Six Senses Vana
Opened as Vana in January 2014 and part of Six Senses since 2023, it is a full-board retreat whose core offering, in its own words, is based on Ayurveda, yoga, Tibetan medicine and natural healing therapies.
FromUS$11,116per personViewAyurveda hospital
The Ayurveda coast, Sri Lanka
Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort
The Reef page carries the tagline 'The original home of authentic Ayurveda in Sri Lanka', and the introduction page calls Reef 'the founding Ayurveda resort in Sri Lanka', established in 1968.
FromUS$4,060per personViewRetreat resort
The Ayurveda coast, Sri Lanka
Santani Wellness Kandy
An Ayurveda-led wellness resort on the former Aratenna tea estate at 2,800 feet near Kandy, which describes itself as 'the first and only purpose-built wellness resort offering luxury escapes in Sri Lanka'.
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Bhutan
Amankora
Five lodges joined into a single circuit of Bhutan’s western and central valleys. Aman’s Reawakening page calls Amankora Paro 'the first international hotel to open in Bhutan'; The Story page dates Amankora’s arrival in Bhutan to 2004.
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Ubud, Indonesia
COMO Shambhala Estate
Described by the COMO Group as 'our resort wellness flagship' — a residential wellness resort on a 22-acre riverine forest estate near Ubud, selling six residential Wellness Paths and shorter Wellness Programmes.
FromUS$4,795per personViewRetreat resort
Ubud, Indonesia
Fivelements Retreat Bali
A riverside retreat that describes its approach as rooted in Balinese healing traditions, and packages Balinese water and fire blessing rituals into every retreat programme.
FromUS$1,200per personViewRetreat resort
Koh Samui, Thailand
Kamalaya
A programme-led wellness resort on Samui’s south-east coast, opened in 2005 around a cave the property says is centuries old and was once used by Buddhist monks for meditation retreat. Its menu lists 20 named programmes.
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Koh Samui, Thailand
Absolute Sanctuary
A 38-room detox, yoga and fitness resort on Koh Samui, with programmes from a one-day pass to a 60-day Lifestyle Change programme. Its about page says it is part of THE ABSOLUTE, a Thai health and lifestyle brand.
FromUS$2,890per personViewRetreat resort
Beppu, Japan
Suginoi Hotel
A hot-spring resort hotel in Kankaiji, Beppu, in the ORIX Hotels & Resorts group. Its April 2025 pamphlet calls it a large onsen resort. Its open-air bath, Tanayu, has five tiers laid out like rice terraces, facing Beppu Bay.
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Okinawa, Japan
HOSHINOYA Okinawa
Hoshino Resorts’ Hoshinoya property on the Yomitan coast — 100 rooms, Ryukyu karate, sanshin and dance lessons, and stone walls the property says were inspired by Ryukyu-era gusuku.
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Baden-Baden, Germany
Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa
A hotel on Baden-Baden’s Lichtentaler Allee, formerly Brenners Park-Hotel & Villa Stéphanie, that calls itself 'A legendary grand hotel'. Its spa is in the historic Villa Stéphanie, and private practices provide its medical programmes.
Price on requestViewThermal spa
Baden-Baden, Germany
Friedrichsbad
A Renaissance-style Roman-Irish bath house of 1877, with a seventeen-station sequence the bath recommends taking over about three hours — one station, the soap-brush massage, costs extra and runs at set times.
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Karlovy Vary, Czechia
Grandhotel Pupp
A grand hotel in Karlovy Vary that dates its story to 1701. By its own account it has been a venue for social and cultural gatherings for more than three centuries, and it says it is celebrating 325 years.
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Bad Gastein, Austria
Gasteiner Heilstollen
A tunnel driven into the Radhausberg in the 1940s to reach a gold vein, used since 1952 for courses of radon-heat therapy 2.5 km inside the mountain.
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Quiberon, France
Sofitel Quiberon Thalassa Sea & Spa
A thalassotherapy centre at Quiberon that, according to the property, the cyclist Louison Bobet founded in 1964. It trades as an Accor Sofitel and calls its Institut Thalassa sea & spa a pioneer of thalassotherapy in France.
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Montreux, Switzerland
Clinique La Prairie
A Swiss longevity clinic on Lake Geneva that says its history began in 1931 with cellular therapy. Its story page names Winston Churchill and Marlene Dietrich among the guests it drew from the 1950s onwards.
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Tyrol, Austria
Lanserhof Lans
The Lans page says the first Lanserhof opened here in 1984 and calls it "the origin of the Lanserhof Method". An interview on the group’s site says a hotel built in 1974 became a health hotel in 1984, starting with F.X. Mayr medicine.
FromUS$5,350per personViewMedical clinic
Tyrol, Austria
Park Igls
A Modern Mayr Medicine house above Innsbruck that calls itself a 'Medical Spa Resort' and says it is state-recognised as a certified medical services provider.
FromUS$6,750per personViewRetreat resort
The Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica
Harmony Hotel
A beach hotel at Playa Guiones that says it opened in 2005. Its Healing Centre offers yoga, bodywork, acupuncture, breathwork and a sauna with cold plunge pools, and the hotel says each guest gets one free yoga class a day.
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Kerala, India
Akanta Ayurveda & Yoga Cherai
An Ayurveda and yoga resort in Cherai that claims a physician lineage dating to 1952, publishing nine named programmes of 7 to 28 days and protocols for back pain, spine and neck, stroke, Parkinson’s and trigeminal neuralgia.
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Kerala, India
Kairali – The Ayurvedic Healing Village
It describes itself as an NABH-accredited Ayurvedic hospital, and its directions page says "It is not a spa." Its programme pages print per-night rates for four villa categories in rupees, dollars and euros.
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Kerala, India
Back to Roots Ayurveda
The site describes Back to Roots as an Ayurvedic hospital and retreat for in-patient treatment, with eight programmes of seven days or more and a founding physician whose clinic group is in the UAE.
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Kerala, India
Chamundi Hill Palace Ayurveda Treatment Centre
A hilltop Ayurvedic treatment centre that calls itself a 'Heritage Ayurveda Retreat'. It publishes a day of two prescribed therapy sessions and yoga morning and evening, and its headline programme is a 28-day Panchakarma.
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Rishikesh, India
Modi Yoga Retreat
A 29-room retreat (the FAQ’s count) in Rishikesh that describes itself as a holistic wellness retreat built on Ayurveda, naturopathy, yoga and meditation, and prints nightly rupee rates on its own site.
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Rishikesh, India
Nirvana Yoga School
A yoga teacher-training school in Tapovan that describes itself as a Yoga Alliance USA registered RYS 200, 300 and 500 school. It also sells 3-, 5- and 7-day retreats, each with published prices, dates and a timed daily schedule.
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Kerala, India
Mekosha Ayurveda Spasuites Retreat
An eleven-suite riverside retreat north of Trivandrum where every room is a "Spasuite" with its own treatment area. The site says most treatments are given in the suite, with a rooftop spa for heavy-oil ones.
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Rishikesh, India
Rishikesh Yogpeeth
A Hatha yoga teacher-training school that says it is registered with Yoga Alliance, selling 200-, 300- and 500-hour courses and 3- to 14-day yoga, Ayurveda and detox retreats; the site says its Abhayaranya ashram has no vehicle access.
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Rishikesh, India
Naturoville Wellness
An Ayurveda and naturopathy resort on the Haridwar–Dehradun road whose page titles say Rishikesh. It publishes three different lists of what a stay includes.
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Rishikesh, India
The Rudraksh Retreat
A family-run retreat in Selur, Tehri Garhwal, selling a three-, five- or seven-night Rudraksh Yogic Detox and a seven- or ten-night Ayurveda Panchakarma.
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Rishikesh, India
Veda5 Ayurveda & Yoga Retreat
An Ayurveda and yoga retreat on Neelkanth Road, Rishikesh, whose four main package pages give daily treatment minutes and a recommended stay.
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