2026 Luxury Spas & Wellness Retreats Winners
Celebrating the sanctuaries and retreats that are redefining wellness and elevating the guest experience through transformational programs and exceptional care.
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Clinique La Prairie
📍 Montreux, Switzerland
Founded in 1931, the clinic pioneered the CLP Longevity Method™, a medically supervised protocol delivered by more than 50 specialists across nutrition, genetics, and regenerative medicine on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Lanserhof Lans
📍 Lans, Tyrol, Austria
Operating since 1984 as the original Lanserhof resort, the 67-room Tyrolean clinic delivers the LANSERHOF Concept, a Mayr-medicine protocol combining naturopathy, chronomedicine, and psychoneuroimmunology, reset through a €25 million expansion completed in 2017.
Lanserhof Tegernsee
📍 Marienstein, Bavaria, Germany
Opened in January 2014 across 21,000 m², designed by Christoph Ingenhoven and Enzo Enea, the 70-room Bavarian clinic earned Condé Nast Traveler’s “Most Effective Medi-Spa” award and houses a 5,000 m² treatment area built on the LANS Med Concept.
Lanserhof Sylt
📍 Sylt Island, Germany
Inaugurated in summer 2022 on a 12-acre former military site, the 70-room North Sea clinic sits beneath Europe’s largest thatched roof and specializes in cardiological rehabilitation alongside the classic FX Mayr regimen, with on-site MRI and CT diagnostics.
Chenot Palace Weggis
📍 Weggis, Switzerland
Opened in June 2020 as the global flagship of the Chenot Method®, a 50-year-old protocol that fuses traditional Chinese medicine with Western diagnostics, the 97-room Lake Lucerne property houses a 5,000 m² medical spa with a cryochamber, an altitude chamber, and a metabolic laboratory.
Mayrlife Altaussee
📍 Altaussee, Styria, Austria
Rebranded in July 2023 from VIVAMAYR Altaussee, the Lake Altaussee resort is the only health destination offering 100% personalized nutritional plans, anchored in Modern Mayr Medicine and named one of the world’s top 10 spas by Vogue.
Vivamayr Maria Wörth
📍 Maria Wörth, Carinthia, Austria
Founded in 2004 on Lake Wörthersee as the birthplace of Modern Mayr Medicine, the 46-room resort maintains a near-100-to-50 staff-to-guest ratio and was named the world’s Best Gut Health Retreat at the 2025 Luxury Spa Edit Awards.
Park Igls
📍 Igls, Innsbruck, Austria
Housed in a 1905 sanatorium perched 900 meters above Innsbruck, the Tyrolean clinic delivers Modern Mayr Medicine through a partnership with Innsbruck Medical University and was named “Best Medical Spa in the World” by Condé Nast Traveler.
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The Original FX Mayr
📍 Dellach am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria
Opened in 1976 by Dr. Erich Rauch, a direct student of Dr. Franz Xaver Mayr, the lakeside chalet is the global birthplace of the residential Mayr Cure, anchored by a 21-day protocol structured around five pillars: rest, cleansing, training, rhythm, and abstinence.
SHA Wellness Clinic Spain
📍 El Albir, Alicante, Spain
Founded in October 2008 by Alfredo Bataller Parietti, the 93-suite hilltop clinic pioneered the SHA Method — a ten-discipline integrative protocol spanning regenerative medicine, macrobiotic nutrition, and longevity diagnostics across 6,000 m² overlooking the Sierra Helada Natural Park.
SHA Wellness Clinic Mexico
📍 Costa Mujeres, Quintana Roo, México
Opened in January 2024 as the brand’s first international expansion after 15 years in Spain, the seven-hectare Caribbean clinic combines the SHA Integrative Method with pre-Hispanic Mayan therapies including Temazcal rituals and access to a natural cenote.
Palace Merano – Espace Henri Chenot
📍 Merano, South Tyrol, Italy
The 99-room South Tyrolean palace was Italy’s first medical detox spa, where Henri Chenot developed his Biontology concept and Revital® Method through more than two decades of practice before passing the protocol to Scientific Director Dr. Massimiliano Mayrhofer.
Palazzo Fiuggi
📍 Fiuggi, Lazio, Italy
Reopened in 2021 following a €30 million restoration of the 1913 Liberty-style palazzo, the 102-room hilltop spa pairs Heinz Beck’s three-Michelin-star wellness cuisine with a 6,000 m² medical facility built around Fiuggi’s centuries-old healing mineral waters.
Kamalaya Koh Samui
📍 Koh Samui, Thailand
Built around a cave once used by Buddhist monks for meditation retreats, the Gulf of Thailand sanctuary integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Naturopathy across signature programs addressing burnout, sleep, and resilience.
Chiva-Som
📍 Hua Hin, Thailand
Founded in April 1995 by former Thai Deputy Prime Minister Boonchu Rojanastien, Asia’s first comprehensive wellness retreat occupies a seven-hectare beachfront garden in the Gulf of Thailand and delivers over 200 personalized treatments through 16 dedicated retreat programs.
RAKxa Integrative Wellness
📍 Bang Krachao, Bangkok, Thailand
Launched in December 2020 as Thailand’s first fully integrative medical-wellness retreat, the 60-villa property sits on an 80-acre site in Bangkok’s “Green Lung” and operates through a partnership with Bumrungrad International Hospital’s VitalLife Scientific Wellness Clinic.
Ananda in the Himalayas
📍 Narendra Nagar, Uttarakhand, India
Opened in November 2000 as India’s first destination spa by Ashok Khanna, grandson of Oberoi Hotels founder M.S. Oberoi, the 100-acre Maharaja’s palace estate integrates Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedanta across a 25,000-square-foot spa overlooking the Ganges valley.
Joali Being
📍 Bodufushi Island, Raa Atoll, Maldives
Opened on November 15, 2021, as the Maldives’ first dedicated wellbeing island, the 68-villa retreat structures every program around four pillars: mind, skin, microbiome, and energy, across 39 treatment rooms designed using biophilic principles.