The Gleneagles Hotel is an iconic country estate nestled in the hills of Perthshire, Scotland.

Located in the stunning hills of Perthshire, Scotland, Gleneagles Hotel is an iconic country estate with luxury accommodations that are inspired by the area’s mountains, meadows, rivers and lakes. With 10 restaurants and bars that include some of the top restaurants in Scotland, Gleneagles is also a renowned culinary destination.

In addition to being a golfer’s paradise with three of the country’s top courses, Gleneagles Hotel offers a vast selection of activities and experiences for guests to enjoy across more than 850 beautiful acres ranging from horseback riding and falconry to lawn games, among others.

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The Spa at Gleneagles is a soothing haven that offers various spaces for relaxation, restoration, and rejuvenation. Its seasoned team of therapists provide spa treatments and experiences that have been designed in collaboration with some of the world’s leading wellness brands including OTO, and many feature Gleneagles’ own oil blends that are made with natural botanicals from the local countryside.

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We chatted with Joanne Young, Gleneagles Spa Manager, who shared insider tips, recommended treatments to try, and more.

The Spa at Gleneagles is a soothing haven for relaxation, restoration, and rejuvenation.

Why You’ll Love It: When you step into The Spa at Gleneagles, the welcome is warm and the spirit is Scottish! Our wellness offerings are not seen as an indulgence, but a celebration of health, happiness, and life itself.

The Spa at Gleneagles embodies overall well-being by creating opportunities to find balance, de-stress, and take care of the mind and body. Set in glorious surroundings and drawing inspiration from both the natural botanicals of Perthshire and wellness traditions from around the world, our treatments offer relief, recovery, and renewal from the stresses of everyday life.

Our guests love that our team of spa therapists all truly care and use their skills and expertise to ensure everyone enjoys a personalized experience. Our menu supports bespoke treatments tailored to each guest, in terms of what you need, how you want to feel, and what will help you achieve greater wellness.

The spa’s retail area sells its own Gleneagles oil blends as well as various bath and body oils.

Key Features: Our Spa offers a range of treatments, all of which can be found here. We offer six incredible Gleneagles body treatments used with our own Gleneagles balms, oils, and scrubs derived from herbs and plants found on our estate and in the beautiful surrounding countryside, in addition to Tata Harper and Dr. Barbara Sturm facials.

Our treatments are a celebration of the diverse local landscape and have been created to boost well-being, energy, and vitality through the healing power of Scottish botanicals. You could say we’re bringing the outside in, capturing the beauty of the glorious natural landscape surrounding the hotel.

As far as spaces, we have 20 treatment rooms, a steam room, a hot sauna cabin, a warm dark vitality pool, and a range of beautiful relaxation areas—from our Spa Lounge and our Courtyard to our Spa Café. Our guests can move around and spend time in these areas as they please, whether to meditate, listen to music, read a book, have a nap, or enjoy a bite to eat with their friends. Here you’ll also find our Swim & Gym spaces and beauty lodge—home to a nail bar and hair salon.

In the Spa Café, guests can enjoy an assortment of natural herbal tea blends that target various wellness issues.

Bonus: In our Spa Café, we have partnered with Forager Herbs, who’ve developed natural herbal tea blends designed to target wellness issues such as stress, lethargy, sleeplessness, and digestion issues. Whatever treatment you choose—whether that’s a Gleneagles Signature Treatment, massage, a Dr. Barbara Sturm treatment, or a Tata Harper facial—we’ll offer you a tea to complement the treatment you’ve received.

Snacks Served: We have our very own wellness café as part of the spa at Gleneagles. Here our residents and day spa guests can enjoy a perfectly balanced two course lunch with herbal tea or juice—the perfect accompaniment to a day of rest and relaxation!

The Spa at Gleneagles features a stylish and fun interior design with unique artwork.

Insider’s Tip: We have made our own Gleneagles oil blends available for retail purposes, as well as two bath and body oils that have become part of the treatment journey. Sensory testing is done as part of a consultation before the treatment so you can choose your preferred oil based on how you’d like to feel and gain from your treatment. From there, you can then buy and take your oil blend home with you, decanted into a personalized bottle by our hosting team as you leave the spa.

Insider’s Favorite: Tata Harper facials are definitely one of my favorites, we worked closely alongside the Tata Harper team and created customized spa facial experiences for us that are designed to address each individual's skin concerns and overall well-being. No two treatments are alike as each guest requires their own fine-tuned journey to achieve total wellness.

Gleneagles are one of the few select partners to feature Tata Harper’s highly unique and exclusive Sensorial Reset experiences. Going far beyond the standard spa treatment, these wellness journeys are an interwoven, multi-sensorial return for the body and mind to encourage a complete reset. The customized, curated treatments elevate the traditional beauty experience and captivate all five senses.

The multisensorial journeys simultaneously elevate the skin condition, the bodily vibrations, and the state of mind. With these treatments, guests at Gleneagles can experience a complete recalibration of the skin, body, and mind in one transformative treatment.

The spa’s light-filled courtyard offers guests a space to relax before and after their treatments.

Splurge Treatment: Our ‘Long Exhale Day Spa’ is our signature treatment and definitely one to splurge on! Spend the morning or end the day enjoying a full 120 minutes of restoration and balance to your body and serenity for your mind.

Your therapist will discuss your areas of concern before commencing the treatment with a foot ritual. Using a mix of salt, heather, and honey all grown on the estate, your feet are scrubbed and massaged while you relax on the treatment bed with a warm hydra pillow placed under your head and shoulders; the warming floating sensation feels very soothing.

We then apply and massage with Gleneagles Uplifting, Balancing, and Restoring oil with flax seed, borage, and sea buckthorn oils infused with neroli, rose otto and Sandalwood balm before commencing full-body stretches using warm jade wave stones and Thai massage stretching techniques. The treatment is completed with a facial massage using a jade comb to release any lingering tension in the face and neck.

The spa’s treatments and experiences are designed in collaboration with some of the world’s leading wellness brands.

Unique Treatment: Our Personalized Wellness Treatments are very unique and performed with one of our skilled spa practitioners. During this treatment you receive an in-depth consultation and overview of your physical, mental, and emotional well-being after which your practitioner will prescribe a treatment for your needs. These treatments are a complete wellness experience that consists of advanced techniques and therapies such as acupuncture and cupping. These treatments are recommended for anyone suffering with stress, sleep disorders, and emotional overload.

The Spa at Gleneagles has partnered with luxury CBD wellness brand OTO to introduce several signature treatments.

Featured Products: From May until July 2023, we have partnered with OTO CBD to introduce signature massages, alongside a restorative facial and new ‘CBD Glow Therapy.' OTO immersive spa treatments harness the power of plant extracts and actives, designed to deliver the optimum dose of CBD both transdermally for rapid muscular relaxation and internally for optimum nervous system support.

As mentioned previously, we also offer Dr. Barbara Sturm’s skincare, whose philosophy is focused on combating inflammation and its consequences and healing the skin with advanced ingredient science derived from nature. In addition, Tata Harper, which is designed to address each individual's skin concerns and overall well-being.

Lastly, our Gleneagles oil blends are a celebration of that diverse local landscape and have been created to boost well-being, energy, and vitality through the healing power of Scottish botanicals.