Bristol Health club and spa | Bannatyne Spa Bristol Review

I recently treated my best friend and I to a day at a Bristol health club and spa, Bannatyne’s.

Like many people, I have learnt the value of a good spa and how needed a day relaxing does for both my body and mind. My usual spa of choice is the Nirvana Spa near Wokingham that I have visited a few times now.

My best friend recently had a significant birthday (one I’ll be having next year myself), and so I treated us both to a spa day at Bannatyne Spa Bristol.

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Treatments

As part of an offer on Groupon, I booked a full body massage for my friend and I, in addition to having full use of the pool, jacuzzi, sauna, gym and classes at this Bristol health club and spa.

If you take nothing else from the rest of this post, or even this blog, take this: full body massages are worth Every. Single. Penny! The massages we had at Bannatyne’s were incredible. Afterwards, both of us could hardly move for being so sleepy and relaxed, and our bodies were busy soaking up all of the oils that had been used.

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Body massage oils

Refreshments 

Massages are thirsty work so after our dreamy session, we needed some refreshments before hitting the pool. Inside Bannatyne Spa, there’s an area just beyond the entrance for people to sit, relax and order food and drink; providing you don’t come in dripping wet from the pool, you’re welcome to use this part of the facility dressed in your robes.

In an ideal world, rather than a smoothie I would have been able to have had a coffee or some hot chocolate, but unfortunately hot drinks could only be made via a Costa Coffee machine and non-dairy milk wasn’t on offer; for a health club I found this incredibly poor.

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Delicious healthy falafel wrap

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Bristol health club and spa: summary

I think for a spa, there’s not quite enough there for a full experience, but for a health club I think Bannatyne Spa Bristol is perfectly reasonable. Had our massages not been moved from 2pm to 11:15am, Kate and I would have done a class or two before getting changed to use the spa facilities. That being said, all the two of us really wanted to do was have uninterupted conversation while relaxing and to be fair, that’s exactly what we got.

What are your favourite ways to relax?

Until next time x

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