All you need for the perfect break
Facilities
With the Menzies Welcombe Hotel Spa and Golf Club on the doorstep your holiday apartment is a new haven in old England.
The apartment has everything you need to make use of local produce to prepare and serve your own delicious menus. And, when you want to enjoy a well earned break from eating in, why not dine in the ornate a la carte, award winning Trevelyan restaurant offering a seasonal changing menu of English and European dishes complemented by outstanding views over the beautiful Italian gardens and water features. Alternatively for a more informal environment, relax in the conservatory lounge and enjoy casual dining and light refreshments.
Literally paces away from the apartment is the luxurious Menzies Welcombe Spa. An exclusive ambience, a blissful environment and first-class facilities designed to stimulate every one of your senses. You can luxuriate or work out in the level deck swimming pool with underwater music, or ease out aching muscles with a hydra massage in the external vitality pool, rejuvenate in the thermal experience rooms, or tone up in the state-of-the art gymnaium and aerobics studio. The Spa's facilities also include heated loungers and foot spas, ice fountain and tropical and polar storm showers. Children are welcome to use the swimming pool between 10am-12pm and 3pm-5pm. As a guest in our apartment you have free access to all these wonderful facilities (based on a party of 4 occupying the apartment).
Or you could treat yourself to a rejuvenating facial or a relaxing massage in the Clarins treatment suites. Simply choose from the stunning range of Spa treatments and leave the worries of the outside world far behind. (Extra to cost of apartment and payable directly to hotel)
Free Golf - round off your special stay
During your stay in our apartment you can enjoy free golf (one 2 ball per day per apartment).
Tee times can be booked two weeks in advance and are subject to availability.
The par 70, 18-hole championship golf course, with its lakes and rolling countryside, is challenging for the expert and exhilarating for the novice. The course is an absolute gem, occupying 157 acres in the shadows of the Welcombe Hills and the golf hotel. From the back tees the course measures a deceptively long 6,288 yards. In 1998 the course was home to the European Seniors Tour Ryder Event.
New for 2009 – Yoga retreats
Stay as a guest in our fabulous 2 bedroom apartment and enjoy a two hours daily yoga
plus all the facilities of the 4* Menzies Welcombe Hotel Spa and Golf Club. You may
also upgrade your holiday to include a one hour treatment of your choice at the Welcombe
Spa, and a Superseat (stall or circle) for the Winter Season at The Royal Shakespeare Courtyard Theatre.
Open for just 4 weeks in January and February, with classes limited to 8 students, we are able to place great importance on individual development, and ensure that your yoga is practiced safely, effectively and relative to your individual needs.
Daily Yoga Classes
These classes will help you improve your flexibility & strengthen your body. Yoga can also be very
helpful for calming yourself in times of stress.
Our teacher, Alan Bradbury, resident teacher at the Welcombe, has been teaching Hatha and Iyengar yoga for nearly ten years and he holds a teaching diploma with the British Wheel of Yoga. He has been particularly influenced by the teachings of Godfrey Devereux and studied Iyengar yoga with Kristal Clark in Leeds, and at the Iyengar Yoga Centre in South London. His classes are suitable for beginners & intermediates.
Alan firmly believes that the benefits of Yoga are more profound than the merely physical and maintains that Yoga has the unique ability to recognise and seek out the best in everyone. Breathing and relaxation form an integral part of his teaching sessions and there is always a space for philosophical and spiritual exploration and discussion.
To compliment your daily yoga you may also choose from a timetable of 18 classes held in the fully sprung, mirrored aerobics studio. All studio classes are included as part of your holiday and may be prebooked at the Spa reception. Bookings are taken for a maximum of 3 days in advance.
Choose from:
Accommodation on your yoga holiday
You will be accommodated in a luxury, fully equipped two bedroom, two bathroom
apartment. If you are booking with a partner/friend, you will enjoy sharing one of our double or twin-bedded
rooms, or alternatively you will share with another person on the yoga retreat (same sex).
You may, at a supplement, book the double room for single occupancy.