The Best Spas Wellness Retreats In Kolkata India

As energetic and charming as Kolkata is, the city’s chaotic rush can leave you seeking a break and some time to heal. Lucky for you, Culture Trip has rounded up a list of the top spas and wellness retreats in and around the city that will replenish and rejuvenate your mind and body.

1. Vedic Village Spa Resort

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Vedic Villaage Spa Resort overlooks a palm-tree-fringed lake from its floor-to-ceiling windows.

Located just a little outside the city limits, by the airport, Vedic Village is one of the area’s finest health and lifestyle retreats. Spanning over 150 acres (61 hectares) of lush greenery, sparkling lakes and scenic coconut groves, this boutique getaway is the calming and energizing break you need from the madness of Kolkata. The Village’s Sanjeeva Ayurveda Spa is every bit equipped to heal and reset your system. The spa offers a variety of medical treatments, a rejuvenating diet, yoga, ayurvedic therapies and more.

2. Sawasdee Namaste Spa

Massage Parlour, Spa

Combining the very best of eastern and western practices in massage and holistic therapy, this spa aims to help you achieve balance between body, mind and soul. With a specific focus on stress reduction and relaxation, Sawasdee Namaste Spa offers a range of services from hot stone therapy, to massages catering for athletes.

3. Oberoi Grand Spa

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Large outdoor pool area the Oberoi Grand, fringed with palm trees and overlooked by the hotels balconies.

Located in a separate wing of The Oberoi Grand in central Kolkata, this luxurious spa offers a range of massage treatments, full body therapies and more. With a stylish facility, lit by antique glass lamps and panelled with rich teak floors offering views of the outdoor pool and garden, this spa is one of the top spots to get pampered in the city of joy. To make your spa experience truly unforgettable, try one of their indigenous ritual packages—the Tamarind Tranquility, for example, involving two and a half hours of tamarind body exfoliation, steam bath, tamarind and bitter orange body wrap and a classic Oberoi massage.

5. Kaya Kalp Spa

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Twilight view of the outdoor pool area at Kaya Kalp Spa, surrounded by a colonnaded terrace with a row of white sun loungers underneath.

Offering a range of ayurvedic rituals, body treatments and relaxing massages, Kaya Kalp Spa at the ITC Sonar Hotel in Topsia is yet another one of the city’s top spots for luxurious pampering. Among the various luxurious treatments offered here, the most popular are the Exotic Pomegranate Spa Journey, the de-stressing therapeutic Hot Stone Massage, Tension Reliever Massage and the traditional Gemstones Massage.

6. Jiva Spa

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A woman at the Jiva Spa, Taj Bengal Hotel, plumps a cream pillow on a massage table in a comfortable, airy room furnished in white, with sleek wooden furnishings.

Jiva Spa at the luxurious Taj Bengal Hotel offers several signature treatment packages drawing from ancient knowledge on Ayurveda, yoga, meditation and more. Crafted to energize your body and mind, the treatments at Jiva Spa have a following that expands across the globe—making this one of the best places to head to in the city for when you’re craving some rejuvenation.

7. Aura Spa

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The outdoor pool area the Park Hotel, which is edged by several seating booths, each with their own comfy turquoise sofa.

This luxury spa at The Park seeks to help patrons attain bliss and harmony using the ancient Indian knowledge of Ayurveda combined with massage and therapy practices from around the world. Treatments include Thai massages, deep tissue massages and aromatherapy, exfoliating scrubs and more.

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