British Virgin Islands / Special Interests / Spas & Wellbeing

Across the islands of the BVIs you’ll find spas and wellness centres that are both stand-alone day centres or lavish spas ensconced in upmarket hotels like Peter Island and Biras Creek. Many use natural resources such as salt scrubs, mud and bush baths. Visitors can also find traditional healing practices, extensive cosmetic care, healthy lifestyle programmes, vegetarian and organic foods.

Despite this being a major sailing centre, as yet there are no yachts with on-board spas but therapists are more than willing to come aboard to give treatments.

Biras Creek, Virgin Gorda - The spa at Biras Creek has three treatment rooms with views out to the Atlantic, a relaxation area and a yoga platform. They offer massages, wraps, personal yoga sessions and certain beauty treatments such as facials. It is reserved for hotel guests. There is also a massage hut on their other swimming beach.

Little Dix Bay, Virgin Gorda - Sense, A Rosewood Spa® has a beautiful setting on a ridge overlooking Sir Francis Drake Channel from above the hotel itself. There are eight treatment rooms, all linked by walkways through the rocks and greenery. Two rooms are wet rooms and three are on the cliff-edge. There is also a double room for couples. Treatments include massage with hot and cold stones, reflexology and aromatherapy, body wraps and cleansers. There are of course many beauty treatments such as facials and manicures, including day packages. It is possible to visit the spa if you are staying outside the hotel, but book in advance because guests take precedence. Open daily 8am-8pm, by appointment only.

The Spa at Leverick Bay, Virgin Gorda - Specialities include Indian and holistic treatments including traditional Indian hatha yoga, reiki and acupuncture (they are the only place in the BVI that does this). They can arrange private yoga sessions if you wish.

Peter Island Resort, Peter Island - The spa at Peter Island, set in its own attractive building of natural wood, sits above its own beach, Reef Bay, beyond Deadman’s Bay on the eastern side of the island. There are ten treatments rooms, including wet rooms, regular massage rooms and two rooms set separately right above the sea. Treatments include a salt scrub using salt from Salt Island just a few miles away, body wraps and different sorts of massage including a ‘sand bundle’ massage using local sand. There is a beauty salon for manicures, pedicures and hair and beauty treatments. There is also a dining room and a relaxation area. Visitors can also come into the spa for the day, by appointment.

Tranquility Spa, Tortola - There is a small spa at the Long Bay Beach Resort at the West End of Tortola (on the north side), which offers body wraps and body scrubs as well as massage and some beauty treatments. There are sauna and steam rooms. Also personal fitness training. Open daily 10am-6pm (Sundays from 11am).

For independent massage therapists we suggest the following :

Bless Hands Health Spa, Tortola - A day spa in Road Town behind Tico Liquor store, offering massages, reflexology, body wraps and scrubs and some beauty treatments

Elizabeth MacLean - She will come to villas anywhere in Tortola