The Reset
Escape • Unwind • Reset
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Water that was here first

The spring came first and the building arranged itself around it, sometimes centuries later. You feel the difference within ten minutes, and it has little to do with temperature. Mineral water holds you differently, and people who have grown up near it never quite settle for a heated pool again.

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The Alps
The Alps
Switzerland
Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland  ·  2 hr from Zurich

7132 Hotel

The most important building in the history of bathing, with twenty-two bedrooms attached and a strict no-camera rule.

1 saunas  ·  6 pools  ·  22 rooms
Included: Half board
Rate on request
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Iceland
Grindavík, Iceland  ·  20 min from Keflavík

The Retreat at Blue Lagoon

Sixty-two suites cut into a lava field, with the Blue Lagoon itself as an unlimited private spa garden.

2 saunas  ·  3 pools  ·  4,000 m² spa  ·  62 rooms
Included: Breakfast · Guided walks · Yoga, Pilates, meditation
From €782 pp / nightbreakfast · per-room rate halved for two sharingBilled as ISK 230,000 per suite/night, from, breakfast and spa included  ·  checked September 2026
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Portugal
Vidago, Portugal  ·  1 hr 30 from Porto

Vidago Palace

A Belle Époque palace where an Álvaro Siza thermal spa, not a treatment menu, is the reason to come.

1 saunas  ·  3 pools  ·  70 rooms
Included: Half board · Guided walks · Yoga, Pilates, meditation · Bikes included
Rate on request
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Greece
Loutra Aidipsou, Evia, Greece  ·  3 hr 30 from Athens 183 km,

Thermae Sylla Spa & Wellness Hotel

A nineteenth-century springs hotel on Evia where the springs are the point, and half board comes as standard.

1 saunas  ·  2 pools  ·  108 rooms
Included: Breakfast · Classes or gym · Estate, farm or cultural
Rate on request