Spa Profile: Saltgrass Spa at Hotel Bardo Savannah
Hotel Bardo Savannah is an urban luxury resort located directly across from Forsyth Park in Savannah, GA. [Photo by Phillip Pond]
An urban luxury resort tucked within a beautiful historic mansion directly across from Forsyth Park, a majestic 30-acre park in Savannah, GA, Hotel Bardo Savannah offers impeccable service, thoughtful amenities, chic guest rooms and suites, and several upscale food and beverage venues.
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More than just a place to stay, the hotel is also a neighborhood clubhouse with an array of events and activities for guests to enjoy during their visit. Club Bardo is a social club inspired by the grand tradition of the early 20th-century salons that gives its members use of a private clubhouse, pool, and fitness facilities as well as special perks including complimentary valet and priority dining reservations.
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Hotel Bardo Savannah is also home to Saltgrass Spa, a stylish and tranquil wellness oasis focused on balancing physical and energetic vitality. The treatment menu features a wide variety of facials, body and massage treatments, in addition to personal training and group classes at the transformative indoor fitness facility, across the resort grounds, and Forsyth Park.
We chatted with Julia Timms Robertson, Wellness Advisor, Saltgrass Spa at Hotel Bardo Savannah, to learn more about treatments to try, insider tips, and more.
The hotel is located within a beautiful historic mansion. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Why You’ll Love It: With the evolution of Saltgrass Spa at Hotel Bardo, we flipped the concept traditional spa on its head by integrating layered experiences into our treatment menu. We blend botany and apothecarian-style skincare lines with modern therapies, ancient healing techniques with progressive rituals new to the industry.
The experience can be as deep, familiar, and restorative or as far out, modernized, and experimental as desired. Though we operate with a humble five treatment rooms, we weave opportunities for the wellness-curious into each experience. IV hydration and aromatic scalp massages meet botanical body balms and B12 shots for elevated energy levels.
The resort’s amenities include an outdoor Mediterranean-inspired pool oasis. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Key Features: Take the elevator down to the lower level of Hotel Bardo and you’re immediately encompassed in blooms. From artist Vanessa Platacis’s hand-painted petals, followed by the rare flowering branches in our retail space and the installation of botanicals in our social lounge, we find that plants and flowers offer an opportunity to pause, be present, and appreciate the sensory experience of nature as it lends itself to well-being overall.
Beyond our traditional spaces, we offer a layered experience in our deep-rest lounge. A curtained, lowly lit landing pad for post-treatment bliss sessions. We love to add a half-hour in an infrared sauna blanket with a silk chamomile eye pillow for the ultimate cocooning experience post-massage.
Our dressing areas are equipped with Corpus Naturals skin and body care products and steam showers. We incorporate the steam showers into The Herbalist Massage, a deeply nutritive treatment that ends with an enveloping application of our most healing botanical emulsions followed by a steam shower session to transform and nurture the skin.
Some of the hotel’s suites feature private gardens and gates that open onto the extensive pool deck. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Snacks Served: We offer citrus and mint teas, a selection of beautiful wines and champagnes from Saint Bibiana, freshly squeezed green juice from Bar Bibi for post-treatment pick-me-ups, and even bourbon for those seeking something stronger. For bites, we offer crudite, bone broth, seasonal fruits, and smoothies.
The entrance to Saltgrass Spa. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Insider’s Tip: I am a holistic nurse with a background in wellness. I love to stack services and optimize the benefits for an extension of any beauty or wellness treatment that will echo into my overall well-being practices. For example, our massage and bodywork treatments pair perfectly with the infrared sauna blanket and PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field) mats. These treatments combined lend themselves to melted muscles and restorative relaxation for stress relief and healthy sleep patterns. To optimize the benefits, I book these services in the late afternoon so I can slip into the sheets after service and drift off.
The spa’s reception and retail area. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Splurge Treatment: Without a doubt, The Alchemist Facial is a treatment I recommend leaning into. This experience incorporates Swiss-made skincare line Margy’s Monte Carlo and LYMA laser therapy. With the LYMA laser, we bring in the science-based technology of cellular regeneration through to further illuminate the skin with the LYMA laser.
Developed by geneticists and longevity scientists, this pain-free, FDA-cleared laser treatment is 100 times more powerful than the current LED facial light devices on the market, it has incredible all around anti-aging benefits, produces collagen and elastin, and tames redness, harnessing the natural cycles of the skin into a regenerative state with no downtime.
After one use, our guests are seeing an immediate effect of skin firmness, lift, and radiance. With continued use, the benefits only get better. This facial is highly effective and the perfect pre-event treatment.
The spa has a private relaxation lounge for guests to enjoy. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Favorite Treatment: It’s a close tie between the Signature Facial with CODAGE Paris skincare or The Herbalist Massage followed by a hydrating IV infusion.
The spa’s menu features a variety of facials, body and massage treatments, in addition to personal training and group classes. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Unique Treatment: The Herbalist and The Botanist’s Remedy Massages are both unique in that they employ specific ancient techniques combined with lymphatic drainage and herbal remedies for a true harmony of healing modalities.
Saltgrass Spa is a stylish and tranquil wellness oasis focused on balancing physical and energetic vitality. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
Featured Products: We were very selective in our curation of skincare lines and chose to partner with brands that have a renowned following for efficacy, ethos, and experience. We offer a selection of products from Corpus Naturals, CODAGE Paris, Margy’s Monte Carlo, Seed to Skin Tuscany, and LESSE.
Beyond lotions and potions, we have a trousseau of one-of-a-kind athleisure wear pieces from Live the Process, Artemis Diciero, and Reigning Champ.
The full-service spa combines historic elegance with contemporary amenities. [Photo by Andrew Frazier]
For more information on Hotel Bardo Savannah, visit their website and follow on Instagram: @staybardo @atsaltgrass. For special deals on your next stay, click here.
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Hotel Bardo Savannah
700 Drayton Street
Savannah, GA 31401
(912) 238-5158