About Radar Wellness
Radar Wellness is an online directory that helps people across the United Kingdom find the right place to rest, recover and look after themselves. It lists day spas and hotel spas, wellness and holistic centres, saunas and bathhouses, and wellness retreats in13 cities, and lets you compare facilities, services, prices and credentials before contacting the one you choose directly.
Whether you want a spa day for a birthday, an hour in a sauna and cold plunge after work, a weekly yoga or Pilates class, a course of acupuncture, or a quiet weekend away, the directory is organised so you can get there in two clicks: by type of centre, by service, or by city and neighbourhood.
How it works
Every listing shows the services and facilities on offer, the area, the prices by length of visit, whether the centre also works off-site, the licences and qualifications it has declared, and a phone number that appears when you ask for it. You contact the centre yourself, agree a time, and pay them directly. We are not a booking platform and we take no commission.
Before a listing shows the verified badge we check who is behind it: the business and the people running it, the premises, any licence the local council requires, insurance, and the qualifications of the practitioners where they matter. You can read exactly what we check on theverification page.
What you will find
- Day spas and spa hotels — day spas and hotel spas are the largest group in the directory and the one most people mean when they say they are "going to a spa".
- Wellness and holistic centres — wellness and holistic centres bring several practitioners and disciplines under one roof: acupuncture, reflexology, reiki and massage in the treatment rooms, yoga, Pilates and meditation in the studio, and often workshops, sound baths and courses in the evenings.
- Saunas and bathhouses — saunas and bathhouses are the fastest-growing part of UK wellness.
- Wellness retreats — wellness retreats combine a place to stay with a programme: yoga and meditation, walking and swimming, nutrition, sleep or digital detox, or simply rest in a quiet setting.
Across those listings we cover 24 services, each with its own guide to what it involves, who it suits and what it usually costs in the UK. Start with theservices guideif you are not sure what to book.
Why we built it
Finding a good spa or wellness centre usually means trawling voucher sites, social media and booking apps that each show a slice of what is out there and take a cut of every visit. We wanted one place that lists the whole picture in a city — the community sauna on the harbour as well as the five-star hotel spa, the yoga studio above a shop as well as the country-house retreat — with the information that actually decides a booking, and no middleman between you and the centre.
For centres, that means a place to be found by people already looking for what they offer, a flat monthly fee instead of a commission, and a dashboard that shows what the listing is doing for them.
For spas and wellness centres
A basic listing is free. Paid plans add placement on the home page and at the top of search, badges, more photos and a link to your website, billed monthly and cancellable at any time. See theplans and how to get listed, or read thefrequently asked questions.