The Best Spas in Europe

The Netherlands and Belgium

Six of the 15 are in the Netherlands and Belgium. They are sauna and wellness resorts for a whole day, with many saunas, pools and a garden. Sweet Lake Wellness in Zoetermeer is the highest placed, at number 4 on the list. Spa One in Oosterhout runs Aufguss sessions about every hour in saunas that look onto its garden. At Thermen Berendonck near Wijchen guests can swim in the lake next door.

Britain

The three British venues are built around heated outdoor pools. The Woodland Spa in Burnley added a rooftop infinity pool with fire pits. The Manor House Thermal Spa Gardens near Alsager are a garden of pools, saunas and steam rooms with swim-up bars. Nirvana Spa near Reading has a Dead Sea pool and a Roman pool.

Hotel spas

The Well, in the forest south of Oslo, spreads pools and saunas over three floors. Rogner Bad Blumau in Styria was built by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, with grass-covered roofs and warm mineral pools indoors and outdoors. Yasuragi outside Stockholm is a bath house in Japanese style.