Relax in your own luxury cottage for the day when you book a spa package at Poppinghole Farm Spa and countryside retreat in the beautiful Sussex Weald. Use it as a cosy base for refreshments, light lunch and lounging between spa treatments alongside dips in the pool.

The award-winning spa (whose most recent trophies include a Muddy Award for best day spa and best boutique spa at the BABTAC) uses highend skincare brands Elemis, Natura Bisse and Germaine de capuccini and is housed in an oak-framed complex and on warm days the pool doors open onto a patio with sun-loungers. You’ll also find a waterfall, plunge pool and hot tub to help soak your cares away and new for this year is a treatment room in the form of a shepherds hut.

Treatments include a vitamin-packed superfood pro-radiance facial, a frangipani body wrap and a fragrant Garden of England Rose Restore massage. There’s also a dedicated menu of more technical BIOTEC treatments plus men’s treatments and a range of Jessica and OPI manicures and pedicures.

Gift vouchers for treatments are also available – ideal for birthdays or Christmas. Getting married? A Wedding Perfect prep is among packages. Fancy a longer stay? Book one of the cottages for one or two nights.

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