The Good Spa Guide to host inaugural awards ceremony at Spa Life UK

Above: The Spa at Dolphin Square in London, a previous awards winner 

The Good Spa Guide, organisers of the UK’s annual Good Spa Awards, has teamed up with industry event Spa Life UK to hold its first live awards ceremony. 

The inaugural ceremony for the awards, which launched in 2010, will be held on November 18, the first day of industry event Spa Life UK, at Center Parcs, Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire

On the night, awards will be presented in 16 categories, including a number of national categories, and regional readers’ choice awards for Scotland, the north of England, the Midlands and the east of England, Wales, the southwest and the Channel Islands, the southeast and London. 

Daphne Metland, founder of The Good Spa Guide, said: “We are thrilled host our first live ceremony at Spa Life UK. We’re proud to be associated with the event and are pleased that, for the first time, we will be able to personally present our awards and showcase the best spas in the UK.”

Previous years’ Good Spa Awards winners include Agua spa at Sanderson London, the spa at Pennyhill Park Hotel in Surrey, The Spa at Dolphin Square in London and Ragdale Hall Health Hydro and Thermal Spa in Leicestershire. 

Andrew Hammond, director of Spa Life UK, said: “The Good Spa Guide Awards make a fantastic addition to our Spa Life programme and fit perfectly with our ethos for sharing best practice.” 

The nominations for this year's awards will be announced on October 1.