Your Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa Review
An overnighter at a spa is one of the best ways to feel like you’ve had the rest of a beach holiday, without the expense, hassle or time of having to leave the UK.
Let me show you why in this Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa Review!
A few weeks ago I went to the Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa in Bagshot, Surrey, for a relaxing day and night, with an 8-course menu at their Latymer Restaurant for dinner. I was invited to come and experience the spa, in return for a review of on my blog.
Of course, the award-winning spa was amazing, more on that, but one of the best things about Pennyhill Park was that it was 45 minutes from Heathrow Airport. As in, from my room at the spa to the departure lounge at Heathrow took 45 minutes on an early Friday morning via Uber (and £25).
I was off to Hamburg for the MS Dockville Festival and I can wholeheartedly confirm, after years of early airport starts, Pennyhill Park is a much more relaxing alternative to the airport hotels.
So that’s the location, as for the experience…
My arrival at Pennyhill Park
After being greeted and shown up to my room we were met in the casual Themis restaurant with a bespoke smoothie each to complement the answers we’d given on a pre-visit questionnaire. Mine was green – I was nervous I wasn’t going to like it. That week of heaving at breakfast smoothies on my vegan week in Mexico flashed into my mind.
No need to worry though. I slurped the whole lot up like an oreo malt milkshake from Byron Burger. Delish.
Darren, the long time manager of the spa, explained how it all worked – a lively mixture of members and visitors – and that he’d carefully selected a treatment for us too, again, based on the questionnaire (make sure you think about what you want when you fill that in!).
For me he’d chosen a ‘Deeply Nourishing Gold Facial’:
“Let your skin be deeply nourished in a layer of gold. Allow your skin to soak up our luxurious products enriched with caviar and pearl. Enjoy a relaxing facial, scalp, hand and foot massage and then leave with truly exquisite skin.”
After a quick tour of the luxury 5-star country house, the treatment rooms, thermal experience area, the eight indoor and outdoor swimming pools, the relaxation area and the biggest changing rooms I’ve ever seen anywhere, it was time for the treatment.
The Gold Facial at Pennyhill Park Spa
My beauty therapist was lovely. It was only around 3pm-ish but I was so, so tired. I hadn’t slept well the night before and then was up early to get some work done before travelling up from Portsmouth. As soon as I entered the room though, I instantly relaxed. So relaxed, I felt the need to warn her that I was probably going to fall asleep. And I did.
I was lay on a waterbed, she was playing the soothing sounds of a spa, it was dark and she was gently massaging my face. I mean, how was I supposed to resist that sweet allure of sleep in those conditions?
In my waking moments I know that she had some sort of device that vibrated gentle electrical pulses into my face and that she put a face mask on, which peeled off in some sort of thickened up glory. I remember her asking if she could massage my feet – if course it was a yes – and I think that was the exact moment I dropped off.
She finished and I was so relaxed and not quite with it, she suggested I go and relax in the darkened chill out room next door with a glass of water. I was sad it was over.