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Montreval Verane
A thermal bath cut into the hillside, and a cold pool fed straight from the lake.
Sérène Verane is built into the hillside behind the farmhouse, which means three of its four walls are limestone and it holds temperature without much help. The main bath is thirty-six degrees, fed from a spring the farm has used since the 1890s, and it is deep enough to stand in up to the collarbone.
Outside, a cold pool sits open to the lake and takes the lake's temperature: twenty-one degrees in August, four in February. There is no chiller and no heater. What the valley provides is what you get, and the February version is the one guests remember.
The spa is open to house guests only and never charges for use of the baths, sauna or steam room. Treatments are charged. The quiet room holds eleven people and there is no music in it, which is deliberate and occasionally requires explaining.
What is here
Open
07:00 – 21:00 daily. Treatments from 09:00.
Use of the baths, saunas and pools is included in every stay. Treatments are charged.
Treatments
Four rather than nineteen. A long menu is usually a way of avoiding the harder work of knowing what to recommend.
2 h/€210
A guided sequence through the thermal bath, sauna and cold pool with a therapist setting the intervals. The most-booked thing we do.
1 h 30/€245
A firm full-body treatment using larch resin oil pressed in the valley, finished under warmed wool rather than towels.
1 h/€165
For guests who have walked further than they meant to. Legs and feet only, cold then warm, in that order.
2 h/No charge
Not a treatment. A therapist reserves the quiet room and the bath for you and no one asks you anything for two hours. No charge, by arrangement at the desk.
Elsewhere
Below the escarpment, the Sabaia Sands
A hammam under canvas, and a cold room at eleven degrees when the desert is at thirty.
08:00 – 20:00 daily. Hammam heated from 14:00.
Motu Rea, Tamerin Atoll
Two treatment rooms over the shallows, with the floor open to the water.
09:00 – 19:00 daily.
Northern shore, Lindhavn Fjord
Two saunas, a steam room, and a hole in the deck into four hundred metres of fjord.
06:00 – 24:00 daily. Treatments 09:00 – 20:00.
Reservations
Our own team answers, not an agency. Rates fall on the fourth night and again on the seventh, which tells you what we would prefer.