Texas Spa Guide: The Best Spas in Austin
Austin, TX. [Photo credit: MJ Tangonan]
Austin, a city known for its live music and cultural diversity (and is the capital of Texas), boasts a thriving spa culture. We’ve identified a selection of day and resort spas, some of the best in the city where relaxation and rejuvenation rule the day. Many offer unique Austin-specific experiences, drawing upon ingredients indigenous to Texas and designing their spa to reflect the Texas Hills Country.
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From soothing treatments nestled in the heart of the city to serene retreats on the outskirts, Austin’s spa destinations promise a blend of tranquility and distinctive charm. Discover the best places to unwind and pamper yourself in this dynamic and wellness-focused city. Check out our Texas spa guide that highlights the best spas in Austin.
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Away Spa
200 Lavaca St., Austin, TX 78701; (512) 542-3626
Away Spa at the W Austin wants to help guests get their glow on. They want to be a place “where you come as you are, for whatever you need and leave recharged and ready for whatever lies ahead.” To help guests get there, they offer a variety of spa services, a fitness center, yoga studio, a wet deck, steam showers, and complimentary valet parking (for the first three hours at least).
Guests can choose from massage services to help with performance, de-stressing, resetting or detoxing. Additional options include the “walk on” Ashiatsu massage, cupping, couple’s massages, dry brushing, cold stone face massage, CBD oil, paraffin treatments, and hair glow.
Multiple body treatments meet varied needs and their “Over the Hills and Far Away VIP” treatment is what they call Zeppelin-inspired—a stairway to heaven with all the features of detox and their best add-on services including a foot scrub, mud back treatment, Swedish massage, and oil scalp massage.
Facial treatments are curated for those guests looking for such solutions as rejuvenation, daily recovery, rewind/restoration, detox and deep cleaning, reduction of aging signs, and brightening. Facials can be enhanced with peptide boosts, dermaflash vibrations, jade stone eye treatments, 24K gold collagen eye and lip masks, dermapore extractions and infusions, leg compression treatments, and peels.
The spa also offers hand and foot nail treatments, waxing, and brow and lash tinting.
Commodore Perry Estate
4100 Red River Street, Austin, TX 78751; (512) 817-5200
They may not have a spa in the traditional sense, but Commodore Perry Estate is committed to working wellness throughout its property with unique offerings that will keep people coming back year-round. “Inspired and energized by the whimsical soul of Austin,” as they say on their website, Commodore Perry Estate offers weekly fitness classes, farm-fresh cuisine, and transformative well-being experiences.
In 2024, they created a year-long series of adventures including such things as a weekend of movement and wellness that features local Austin experiences and communal immersions. Other experiences include Candlelight Consciousness, Brittsbarre, yoga, meditation, fitness in nature, golf, and meditation.
eleMINT Skin Health and Wellness Studio
1105 E. 6th St., Austin, TX 78702; (512) 518-0128
eleMint is a modern facial studio that celebrates each person’s unique skin and sets out to help them feel and look their best. Their three principles are: honest, personal, and connected. Honest involves using botanicals that are supported by science and products that are non-toxic. Personal is defined as helping each individual tap into their confidence through bespoke experiences that inspire each guest to be intentional about their skin care. Their magic potion, they say, is their connection to creating a community around skin care.
The estheticians at eleMINT custom blend each treatment to respond to each individual’s skin goals to bring out their natural glow. The services can include restorative facials of varying lengths and facial massages. The products used in the facials are from Botnia, a line that is created with botanicals grown, cold pressed, and distilled on their micro-farm in Sausalito, California.
Any tips given to estheticians are split between the service provider and local nonprofit organizations.
Fairmont Spa Austin
101 Red River St., Austin, TX 78701; (512) 524-4600
At the Fairmont Spa Austin, you can unwind for an entire day whenever you book an appointment. The spa facilities are open to guests and includes solariums with floor-to-ceiling views of the city. Each solarium has a saline soaking pool, eucalyptus steam grotto, and a European dry heat sauna.
Each spa visit begins under their signature chandelier, an invitation to experience the healing power of crystals. The spa has nine treatment rooms, including two couples’ suites, a nail salon, and relaxation rooms. There’s even a “Spa after Dark” option where couples can rent out the spa for twilight treatments.
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Personalized massages can be enhanced with such options as CBD pain crème, recovery crème, collagen gemstone face masks, back or leg scrubs, thermagun percussion therapy, cold therapy relief, and SPF 50 body applications.
Body treatments include two cryo treatments, a body scrub, and their signature body treatment, which includes an aromatic wrap, hydration balm, and face mask. Their two facial options include a personalized treatment and an oxygen facial. They also offer nail and CBD treatments.
Hiatus Spa + Retreat
1611 W. 35th Street, Austin, TX 78703; (512) 362-5777
Hiatus Spa + Retreat recognize the importance of regular revitalization. It’s why they were the first wellness spa in the U.S. to offer a monthly wellness program, the H-Circle. It’s a subscription program that provides their members the opportunity and reminder to regularly engage in self-care.
In addition to their Austin location, they have seven other retreats—in San Antonio, Plano, Frisco, two in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston. The Austin location has 18 treatment rooms, a nail therapy lounge with zero-gravity chairs, and a hydrotherapy room.
Service categories are body, massage, skin care, nail care, brow and waxing, acupuncture, and Medspa. They offer quarterly “epic body retreats” where the treatments change with each season providing spiced herbal poultices in the fall, tropical lotions in the summer, lavender awakening rituals in the spring, and a fire retreat in the winter that includes a Dead Sea mud wrap. Each retreat sends guests home with a themed gemstone.
Massages can be customized to meet each guest’s needs and some are followed up with a cocktail from the Hiatus bar. Add-ons include cupping, scalp massage, hot stones, hand treatments, reflexology, percussion therapy, and CBD oil. They offer a range of facials that are high-tech and holistic. Like body treatments, they have ones that are designed for each season. They also provide hydrafacials and peels.
The MedSpa offers injectables, skin rejuvenation, Upneeq prescription eye drops, and virtual consultations.
Lakehouse Spa at Lake Austin Spa Resort
1705 S. Quinlan Park Road, Austin, TX 78732; (512) 372-7300
With 30 indoor and outdoor treatment areas and a menu of more than 100 healing services, Lakehouse Spa is the sparkling diamond of the 40-room wellness retreat, Lake Austin Spa Resort. A spa that welcomes both day and resort guests, the spa experience includes a café, swimming pools, and such lake activities as wine cruises, boat rentals, and water sport outings. Their goal is to create a one-of-a-kind oasis that combines modern and ancient spa treatments.
Spa treatments start with such familiar services as massages, facials, body work, and foot therapy—and then extend into energy work, aquatic treatments and meditations in the pool, and The Lab and Face Space treatments. Massage services include hot stone, magnesium, prenatal, sports, couples, aromatherapy Swedish, deep tissue, a pro-sleep massage ritual, and Thai.
Facials are divided into “comfort zone,” “Tata Harper,” “Valmont Facials,” and “Lakehouse Spa Signature Facials” with such options as hydramemory, sculpting, Superkind with gua sha massage, oxygen, collagen boost, glycolic acid, peels, and men’s services. Two of their signature exclusive facials take at least three hours and combine multiple modalities to help transform the skin.
Face Space opened in 2024 and is an experiential skin and body sanctuary that includes a skincare bar, warm rain shower, and cold plunges. It is there they offer the Body Strategist Experience to address the health of muscles, skin, and circulation.
Lakeway Resort and Spa
101 Lakeway Drive, Lakeway, Texas 78734; (512) 261-6600
Located at an award-winning luxury resort, The Spa at Lakeway Resort provides an escape where the beauty of nature is reflected in all that they do. Located on Lake Travis, their terrace offers stunning views of the property while inside they offer relaxation lounges, dry saunas, a pool, and couples’ showers.
Treatments include massages, facials, and body treatments. Many services offer a selection of such aromas as eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, sage, and sweet orange with wildflowers making frequent appearances. Facials use Skinceuticals and Phytomer product lines and can include peels, collagen masks, Gua Sha massage, paraffin, and vitamin C boosts.
The spa has designed packages for teens and couples. They also have a half-day Lakeway Journey that includes the Ladybird Wildflower Wrap, a body scrub, massage, and facial.
Milk + Honey
100 Guadalupe, Austin, TX 78701; 844-645-5772
Milk+Honey is a collection of day spas that was founded by Alissa Bayer in Austin (where there are now four locations) and spread out to Houston, Fort Worth, Chicago, and two in Los Angeles. The spas are committed to healing, wellness, and relaxation. Each spa features organic ingredients, a relaxation lounge, well-appointed locker rooms, refreshments, and a rewards program. An award-winning spa, they incorporate music and art into their treatments for full sensory experiences.
Spa treatments include massages, facials, nail services, waxing and tinting, brows and lashes, and hair styling. There are packages available for children, teens, couples, and other adults. Medspa treatments include injectables, laser treatments, chemical peels, microneedling, and dermaplaning. Throughout the year they offer seasonal specials and all services are enhanced with such things as aromatherapy, steamed hot towels, warm neck rolls, and heated tables.
The therapists offer a wide range of massage modalities including Swedish, oncology, lymphatic drainage, Reiki, reflexology, craniosacral, acupressure, zero balancing, shiatsu, myofascial, gua sha/Graston, Lomi Lomi, trigger point, and cupping. Facials include traditional, hydrafacials, peels, and some body treatments such as back facials and décolleté.
Life in Balance Spa at Miraval Austin Resort & Spa
13500 FM-2769, Austin, TX 78726; (855) 690-8163
Miraval Austin welcomes guests to the Texas Hills where guests will experience the local uniqueness of Austin—all while achieving a “Miraval state of mind.” It is a resort where wellness is intentional and they offer several experiences and journeys to help guests achieve their goals. Journey intentions can include such things as mental well-being, reconnection with a loved one, relaxation, self-connection, spa experience, culinary, outdoor adventure, grief and loss, leadership fulfillment, couples retreat or fitness focus.
The Life in Balance Spa draws from the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve in which it is set. It draws upon the spiritual in a way that honors tradition and welcomes innovation. Design features include mandalas, healing crystals, and plenty of wood. The spa includes a quiet room, hot tub, steam room, sauna, serenity pool, and a retail boutique.
Treatments include body renewal rituals, Ayurveda, energy and Eastern treatments, massage, skin care and salon, and nail care. They also have a menu of pre-natal services. Their body treatments offer themed experiences with products evoking locations around the world whether Hawaiian, Japanese or Middle Eastern. Energy and Eastern work includes acupuncture, crystal energy work, Thai massage (including Sukha, a Thai-inspired aerial bodywork), aqua zen, chakra energy balancing, breathwork, Reiki, reflexology, and a couples service designed to restore harmony through ritual and a Tibetan bowl-ringing ceremony.
One of their massages includes an Austin Apothecary Massage that incorporates indigenous leaves, flowers, and herbs. One of their unique experiences is the Tidal Flow—a couples aquatic journey that includes massage and bodywork.
Mokara Spa at Omni Barton Creek
8212 Barton Club Drive, Austin, TX 78704; (512) 329-4000
Omni Hotels has set out to make each of their spas unique, drawing upon the culture of the region in which they are built. Mokara Spa in Austin in inspired by the nearby waterways, creeks, and springs; a 13,000-square-foot sanctuary where guests can embark on restorative personal journeys or sign up for Austin-inspired signature spa treatments.
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The spa is home to a private rooftop pool with a view of Texas Hill Country. Amenities include a relaxation lounge, steam room, sauna, indoor heated whirlpool, and a fitness center. There is also a Spa Creek Café with nutritious spa food offerings. In addition to signing up for treatments, guests can purchase a day pass and spend the day enjoying the spa’s amenities.
Spa treatments include facials, massages, body treatments, and hair and nail salon services. Facial options include HydraFacials, collagen infusion, and anti-aging using all-natural products. Massage treatments include Swedish, hot and cold stones, salt stones, couples, pre-natal and CBD. Body treatments offer options include scrubs and wraps to hydrate, revitalize, and exfoliate.
The NOW Austin
1500 S. Lamar Suite 140, Austin, TX 78704; (512) 535-6705
Part of a chain of spas that spread across the country, The NOW has landed in Austin with its next-level massages. A sanctuary from the hectic nature of daily city life, the spa incorporates such natural design elements as wood surfaces, exposed beams, sheep skins and rawhides, cactus galleries, and crystal grids.
With an eye to affordability, massages range from 25-minute express treatments to 80-minute you-time massages. The menu is designed to be customizable with such add-ons as deep tissue, calm balm, cupping, gua sha, eye masks, scalp renewal, and wildcrafted herbal heat therapy. There are three massages offered: the signature Swedish massage, a sports-inspired massage, and an energy-balancing massage.
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Spa La La
3425 Bee Caves Rd. B-2, West Lake Hills, TX 78746; (512) 953-3540
With everyone having vastly different needs and wellness goals, the therapists at Spa La La have made sure they can provide many different services and modalities to help each guest travel on their self-care journey. The day spa is committed to high-quality skincare and body work. They specialize in such services as HydraFacials, jet plasma, mesotherapy, BioRepeel TCA, Environ Lactic, mandelic and glycolic peels, and anti-aging and corrective skincare treatments.
In an effort to reach out to new customers and to take care of loyal clientele, they have a variety of packages and memberships. They offer specials for first-time Austin residents that include complimentary take-home kits and massage and facial combos. For regulars, they provide memberships with monthly discounts on services and products. Credits can roll over for six months.
Spa Sway
11011 Domain Drive, Suite 124, Austin, TX 78758; (512) 873-0999
At Spa Sway, they want your relaxation to last. In pursuit of that goal, they’ve created a serene sanctuary where guests can book innovative treatments in consultation with a concierge service that will help them find exactly what they need. A medically licensed day spa, it has won numerous awards from multiple Austin publications and organizations. Founded by Rei Leigh after a car accident that broke her hip in three places, she opened the spa seven years ago to help others benefit from the massage that helped her recover.
Spa Sway offers a unique, proprietary protocol that starts with each guest’s arrival. The spa experience begins with a choice of infused water, red or white wine and snacks in their relaxation room. Personalized treatments include hot towel therapy on the back and organic lavender essential oils in a temperature-controlled room infused with signature scents. Other elements of the protocol include hot towels on the feet, a soothing eye pillow, and a concluding eucalyptus spray.
Services include massage, facials, and body treatments with special services available for pregnant women, couples, and men. Body treatments include cupping, sculpting, abdominal massage, and a magnesium calm cocoon massage that reduces pain, relieves stress, and promotes good sleep.
Massage options include Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone, sports, CBD, Himalayan salt stone, lymphatic drainage, and pregnancy. All facials are custom tailored to meet individual goals. Add-ons to facial treatments include several types of peels, dermaplaning, diamond dermabrasion, LED light therapy, oxygen fusion, and lymphatic drainage.
Spa Sway is committed to community contributions and they offer discounts to military, EMS, fire, police, teachers, and workers in the mall where they are located. Past philanthropic efforts have included donating more than 2,500 meals and giving complimentary massages to first responders during storms.
Spavia
6701 Burnet Rd. b3, Austin, TX 78757; (512) 956-5005
In 2005, Allison and Marty Langenderfer created the Spavia brand, one that now has spas around the country. It is a place designed to provide guests with the perfect spa day experience, an experience that they’ll decide they can’t live without. They invite those who walk through their doors to join them on a journey to wellness.
Guests start their day by slipping into a spa robe and kicking back in the relaxation room where they will be given a warm aromatherapy neck pillow. Steps on the wellness journey can include such services as massages, body treatments, facials, and beauty treatments.
They welcome guests to book “spalebrations” for four or more guests at their facility with special packages created specially for bridal, bachelorette, birthdays, girls night out, baby showers, work retreats, and anniversaries. These celebrations have options for a menu or to rent out the entire retreat area for privacy.
They have a specific menu for men’s treatments that includes massages and facials. Four spa packages center on relax, recenter, renew, and rejuvenate.
The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Austin
98 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin TX 78701; (512) 685-8160
The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Austin understands that the needs of our bodies and minds change throughout the year, with changes dawning with every new season. It’s why their services change with seasonal treatments designed to meet guests where and when they are.
The spa is designed to help guests pursue good health and wellness starting with the Himalayan salt wall in the relaxation room and continuing throughout the spa with such amenities as a steam room, fitness center, and maps for local trail hikes or jogs. They also offer monthly wellness classes with such options as guided meditation or sound healing.
Signature treatments are designed to bring a taste of Texas into the rooms with locally-sourced Austin ingredients. These include a HydraFacial, a Four Seasons Sensory Experience (using Texas-grown sage, body brushing, acupressure, Chakra balancing, and a massage with local river stones, and an herbal apothecary allergy relief massage with botanicals indigenous to Texas.
Massage add-ons include crystal-infused oil, scalp treatments, cellulite serums, hand or foot scrubs, dry brushing, and body butter. Facial add-ons include gua sha, jade rollers, eye treatments with a pulse vibration machine, hand peels, skin boosters, waxing, and tinting.
Thompson Austin & tommie Austin
506 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, TX 78701; (737) 787-1234; (737) 205-1234
Located in the heart of the city, the Thompson Austin and tommie Austin hotels are joined by shared amenities and offer guests a range of unique wellness experiences to enjoy during their stay. While the hotels don’t have an official spa, they partner with local spas and services to ensure their guests have access to traditional spa services if requested.
They will bring in masseuses for their in-room treatments from AustinDEEP to ensure guests have access to wellness even while in an urban hotel. Other wellness experiences offered by both properties include:
“Facials in a Box” Mini Bar Add-On: The ATX Chill Skin Kit by Skin Authority not only includes Skin Authority products but a QR code to a pre-recorded video or personal one-on-one experience with a coach walking the guest step-by-step through a facial treatment.
Fitness Center: Spanning an entire floor, the 6,700-square-foot fitness center at the Thompson Austin invites guests to participate in the health benefits of traditional workouts, from state-of-the-art equipment, ranging from TechnoGym running machines to The Mirror and Peloton bikes and private yoga studios and fitness rooms.
In-House Studio Three Location: Chicago-based fitness expert Studio Three opened its first Texas location at Thompson Austin last year, offering strength interval, yoga, and cycling classes and a health-focused, grab-and-go cafe by beloved Austin restaurant the Well.
In-Suite Fitness Instructors + Peloton Rentals: For those staying in the Residences at Thompson Austin, a fully livable extended stay offering available at a nightly rate, the hotel allows for special inclusions and add-ons in each suite, including hirable in-room fitness instructors and rentable Pelotons for easy access in their own living room.
T Box Golf Simulator: A private virtual golf experience within the fitness center allows guests and locals to participate in healthy competition or practice on their own over the delicious menu from the property’s Wax Myrtle’s restaurant.
Verbena Spa at Austin Proper Hotel
600 W. 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701; (512) 648-1418
An award-winning wellness space, Verbena Spa is located in the Austin Proper Hotel. A place of calm, they offer detoxifying drinks in their relaxation lounge, steam showers, and wellness classes. The spa team will even deliver their services to guests in their hotel rooms.
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The spa features an exclusive facial treatment designed by supermodel Kate Moss and her beauty brand COSMOSS that includes a hot herbal poultice face massage. Other facials include a Saint Jane CBD facial, LED light therapy, gua sha and therabody thermaface pro facial.
Massage options include Swedish, deep tissue, sports, aromatherapy, prenatal, and a tequila massage which incorporates tequila, agave, and guided meditation. Wellness classes include HIIT, core mat Pilates, Barre Fusion, yoga, sound bath, guided runs, guided meditation, and Pilates reformer.
Viva Day Spa
1811 W. 35th St., Austin, TX 78703; (512) 270-7033
215 S Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78704; (512) 270-7033
11601 Rock Rose Ave., Austin, TX 78758; (512) 270-7033
Founded by three best friends in 2005, Viva Day Spa now has three Austin locations that offer bespoke massages and facials along with non-invasive medical spa services, which were added in 2016. Committed to science-based and organic skin care, they use SkinCeuticals and Eminence Organic Skin Care. Voted one of the best places to work, Viva has a philosophy of “Caring from the Inside Out” which involves nurturing their staff so the staff can heal their guests.
Spa treatments include massages, facials, HydraFacials, nail care, and waxing with special services designed for couples, pregnant women, and men. Their most popular treatments include the celebration spa package, the Viva signature massage, the Viva Diva Day Spa package, the custom designer facial, Mother Nurture Spa Package, the Deluxe Diva Manicure and Pedicure, the Viva Vital Ultimate Facial Package, and the Mandatory Spa Package for Men.
MedSpa treatments include Botox, injectables, and fillers; laser hair removal, skin rejuvenation, body contouring, and vaginal rejuvenation.
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Bridgette, who is a second-generation journalist, fell in love with spas and travel while working as a writer and editor for 16 years at the Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. As a freelancer for the International SPA Association, she co-wrote two textbooks, nine workbooks, and numerous case studies on spas. Her freelance career began in the 80s and she has written for publications in Michigan, Arizona, California, and Texas along with several regional and national publications. She is a committed storyteller who loves sharing narratives which improve people's quality of life and build community. Born and raised in Michigan, she currently lives in Lansing with her husband and son. See more of her writing at bridgetteredman.com.