The Best Spa Hotels in Philadelphia
The city of “brotherly love” means business for tourists and corporate travelers alike, with world-famous sights to tick off and conferences keeping the major hotels busy, busy, busy. If walking and talking has got you feeling as coiled as a nest of dried linguine, you’ll need a hotel with a super-spa to soften you up and have you ready to face the world again. Here are the best spa hotels in Philadelphia.
1. The Rittenhouse Hotel Spa & Club
Hotel
2. Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia
Luxury, Chain Hotel, Spa Hotel
Set in a former neoclassical bank, this spa hotel in Philadelphia itself is a feel-good experience, all lofty ceilings and swathes of marble. And the chakra-aligning Richel D’Ambra Spa & Salon here takes you higher. It specialises in centuries-old East Asian treatments. For a unique journey try the Tibetan-singing-bowls massage using body butter and aromatherapy oil: the bowls are placed on strategic parts of your body to release tension, and are a resounding triumph among guests.
3. The Bellevue
Luxury, Chain Hotel, Spa Hotel
Step into this Renaissance Revival building and breathe in the grandeur, from the Tiffany boutique to the chandeliered restaurant and spacious bedrooms. This luxury spa in Philadelpia is lovely to inhale, too, with its menu of fragrant massages. You’ll also have access to the premier Sporting Club; with steam rooms, saunas, an 82ft (25m) indoor pool, racquetball and squash courts, and much more.
4. The Logan Philadelphia
Chain Hotel
The Underground Spa & Wellness is very much at home in this welcoming hotel. Its team of fantastic, silky-fingered practitioners are renowned for signature soporific treatments such as a scalp massage with Moroccan oils. While you’re here, try a shea-butter wrap, which moisturises skin while sloughing off dead cells. Factor in a relaxing swim in the club’s indoor pool.
5. Valley Forge Casino Resort
Resort, Spa Hotel
20mi (31km) north-west of the city, the Valley Forge Casino Resort is a conference and banqueting hotspot. If one-to-one meetings, or too many celebrations, have left you limp and lacking in energy, the massage menu is your oyster. Hot stone, maternity, couples, therapeutic… Try them all over a weekend if you win first thing at the casino.
6. Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia
Chain Hotel, Spa Hotel, Luxury
Atop the Comcast Technology Center, Philadelphia’s tallest building, the Four Seasons is a stunner of a spa hotel in Philadelphia, looking down over other skyscrapers. The spa is right up there among the city’s best – be sure to Instagram those vertiginous views. With its smooth-edge good looks, it’s a temple to serenity, hugely popular for an aromatherapy full-body deep massage that will leave you feeling energetic and rejuvenated; you’ll be walking around Philadelphia on a cloud.
7. Radnor Hotel
Budget Hotel, Spa Hotel
On the historic Main Line, less than half-an-hour north-west of central Philadelphia, you’ll find The Radnor spa hotel, which does brisk business in weddings and private events. Hence the busy booking desk at the Essent Spa – popular with locals as well as guests. If you have always wanted laser body sculpting, you’ve come to the right place; say hello to a whole new you.
8. Loews Hotel Philadelphia
Luxury, Chain Hotel
A three-minute walk from Reading Terminal Market and its local produce, Loews Hotel is in an impressive central location, with the shops of the Fashion District shopping mall close by. Weary consumers, having struggled back with their bags, know just where to head: to the Joseph Anthony Retreat Spa and Salon, with its Turkish Bath treatment, in a tiled, heated space.
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