The best wellness destinations in Knightsbridge

When it comes to wellness, there are few areas more prestigious to head for treatments, products and bucket-list daydreaming than the illustrious Knightsbridge, with its rich history of luxurious spas and clinics dedicated to total health and beauty excellence. Here, we share some of our most-loved places for a dose of indulgence you’ll want to enjoy on repeat. Prepare for some serious inner glow.

Wellness buffs with a penchant for regenerative, science-backed treatments will already be making a beeline for The HVN. The team here specialises in non-invasive treatments that combine clinical expertise (medical doctors are at the helm) with holistic therapies, functional health practices and aesthetic treatments. New to the team is Head of Functional Medicine, Alex Manos, one of the UK’s most highly trained health practitioners. A certified nutritional therapist, Manos helps clients identify the root cause of a range of chronic health conditions through advanced laboratory testing and reviews, including gut related disorders and chronic fatigue, and create personalised health strategies that improve their overall wellbeing.


Elsewhere, the Fotona 4D Lift is its signature treatment – a multi-layered treatment that tightens, firms and smooths skin using the Fotona 4D laser. Helping to bring about that coveted “lit-from-within” effect, the nifty laser stimulates collagen production and magics up a natural lift and tightening effect in just one 80-minute visit. Lightyears ahead of its competitors (expect to find other pioneering treatments like laser hair restoration, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and polynucleotide facials here too), this truly is no ordinary wellness destination.


57-63 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7BF

Originally serving as the site for St George’s Hospital, it’s fitting that The Lanesborough Hotel has established itself as one of London’s top health destinations. Its heavenly subterranean spa is equipped with an impressive sauna, steam room and hydrotherapy pool set-up, with a stellar treatment list to match. Its fitness offerings are equally impressive, blending state-of-the-art facilities with meticulously personalised services. Fitness classes here are intimate (with no more than four participants per class) and include disciplines such as yin yoga, reformer pilates, boxing and HIIT as well as its summer run club, exclusive to Club & Spa members or hotel guests. If an impressive 40 classes a week with gold-standard trainers in a Regency setting floats your boat, you know where to head…

2 Lanesborough Place SW 1, London SW1X 7TA

Led by Kani Haki, the KP Clinic is found at Knightsbridge Pharmacy, just a five-minute saunter from Harrods. Haki is a registered pharmacist as well as a sought-after skincare practitioner specialising in adult acne and her busy clinic says all you need to know about demand for her revered treatments. Offering everything from HydraFacials and chemical peels to microneedling, as well as injectables such as polynucleotides, skin boosters and anti-wrinkle concoctions, each of Haki’s bespoke treatments is skilfully tailored around the client’s individual requirements, rather than a conventional one-size-fits-all approach. From pimples, blackheads and melasma to rosacea, tightness and premature ageing, Haki is the sort of woman you’d trust to tackle it all (add her to your speed-dial immediately).

156 Brompton Road, London SW3 1HW

Known for its opulence (and impressive mosaic-lined 25m pool), The Bulgari Spa and accompanying 150-square-metre fitness suite and studio hosts everything from a Zerobody dry float experience and rejuvenating Recovery Suite (complete with ice bath) to sound-bath sessions, breathwork classes and functional mobility workshops. There’s even in-room training on offer for those days when leaving your room feels too much of a stretch. It’s the spa’s “star residencies” that have everyone talking though, with Hollywood facialist Adeela Crown taking the top spot (Cara Delevingne and Keira Knightley’s facialist, no less). Known as the “skin engineer”, Crown is the advanced aesthetician to book in with for a combination of invigorating facial massage techniques, impressive devices and powerful products, uniquely tailored to your needs. With upcoming visits to the Bulgari scheduled for May, September and November/December, book in quickly while you still can.

171 Knightsbridge, London SW7 1DW

Words: Sophie Goddard