Looking for the best wellness resorts in Phuket, Thailand? Here’s where to detox, reset, and revive
Whether you want to up your Muay Thai game or be wrapped in seaweed for days, these spots have it all.
Who doesn’t love a trip to stunning Thailand? And Phuket, AKA The Pearl of the Andamans and the nation’s largest island, has long attracted international visitors, with its year-round tropical climate, immaculate turquoise waters, and lush jungle interior. It’s no surprise then that this paradise has built a well-earned reputation as one of South East Asia’s go-to destinations for wellness. Whether you’re looking to get deep into your yoga, learn Muay Thai, or be pampered with natural treatments, these are the best wellness resorts in Phuket.
The best wellness resorts in Phuket
1. COMO Point Yamu | Yamu, East Coast
Perched on Point Yamu, a peninsula overlooking Phang Nga Bay on Phuket’s quiet eastern side, COMO Point Yamu is all about serene natural surroundings and the luxury of space. Where ever you are in the resort’s 79 rooms, suites and 27 private villas, you have horizon filled water views of Phang Nga and Yamu Bays.
Glistening white exteriors, clean lines, and pared-back, contemporary style unite with Italian designer Paola Navone’s eclectic, colourful interiors resulting in a dazzling palette of bright aquamarines and burnt oranges. The setting and aesthetic alone are calm-inducing and ideal for those looking to add wellness to their holiday escape.
COMO Shambhala Wellness advocates proactive, holistic wellness, combining modern science with ancient healing. Gorgeous treatment rooms, all with natural outlooks, and the menu of massages, detoxifying body scrubs, lymphatic drainage, acupuncture, and sun soothing body wraps will ease any ailment. Turn back the clock with targeted Guinot facials, while personal training sessions will get you right on track to achieving your fitness goals. The resort even offers dedicated spa options for men and kids so that the whole family will be feeling fresh.
In fashioning her first wellness resort in the Bahamas in 2000, Christina Ong, creator and owner of COMO Hotels and Resorts, wanted to introduce her guests to yoga and its myriad benefits. It remains an integrated component of the wellness offering with yoga mats in every guest’s bedroom and free daily group classes. Personal instruction and even family yoga sessions can be arranged.
COMO Shambhala Cuisine is a menu of nutritionally-calibrated dishes inspired by founder Christina Ong’s passion for good food. Guests benefit from dishes designed to maximise energy using raw foods. There is no calorie counting, although meals are conspicuously light. Instead, the food optimises nutrition while tasting delicious. The COMO Shambhala Cuisine is available in all resort restaurants and in-room dining.
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2. Rosewood Phuket | Tri Trang Beach, Patong
Rosewood Phuket, with its 600-metres of white sandy beach, lush landscape, and the glistening waters of Patong Bay as your constant outlook, is the tropical beach hideaway of your dreams. Seventy-one luxury pool pavilions and villas embody tranquillity, refinement, and timeless elegance.
Rosewood’s acclaimed health retreat, Asaya, blends personalised wellness with alternative therapies, fitness and healthy nutrition. Customised assessments explore what you need, based upon where you have been and where you would like to go.
Initial consultations occur in individual conversation pavilions within Asaya’s central garden, surrounded by beds of aromatic herbs and botanicals ready to use in treatments and shaded by trees like cinnamon.
Mindfulness is also an essential essence of Asaya. Purposely spaced stepping stones from the entrance through the central garden and on to each treatment room are designed to slow your pace in readiness for your therapy.
Wellness À La Carte allows you to create your passage to wellness with integrated experiences around Emotional Balance, Fitness & Nutrition, Physical Therapies, Skin Health & Body Treatments, and Alternative Therapies. A range of fitness and wellbeing activities, including yoga, body stretching, Muay Thai, and personal training, are also offered through the Fitness Centre.
Mindful eating is easy with the resorts’ dining outlet menus offering a great variety of nutritious (and delicious) choices from breakfast onwards through the day. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and Asaya specific dishes are highlighted for easy selection.
Sustainability is also a significant resort feature with its own freshwater making systems, solar water heating system, water capture and recycling, onsite farm and fruit plantations, to name a few.
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3. Amatara Welleisure | Panwa Beach, Lower East Coast
Amatara Welleisure occupies a headland overlooking Cape Panwa Bay on Phuket’s lower east coast. The resort’s 55-metre infinity pool is a centrepiece, while the 53 pavilions, suites and 52 pool villas all enjoy bay or ocean views. Amatara is known for its all-inclusive three, five or seven-day wellness packages covering accommodation, daily nutritional meals, and personalised wellness activities to achieve specific goals.
Programs include body or mental detox, weight management, stress and burnout, active, yoga retreat, spa revive and even family wellness. Or you may want to create your bespoke program.
For those not signing on for a wellness package, Amatara Spa offers a range of individual offerings from scrubs and wraps, a variety of massages from Thai and Indian to therapeutic and relaxing. Guinot facials and Hydrodermie Lift treatments are also available. Yoga in the open-air Sala with Cape Panwa Bay vistas, a workout under the watchful eye of an instructor in the modern gym, or swimming in the resort’s 50-metre pool are all ideal starts to the day.
Amatara boasts Thailand’s only Hammam. A gentle Thai version of the traditional Hammam featured in Morocco and Turkey bathing traditions. The Thai Hammam involves several stages that utilise contrasting temperatures, deep body exfoliation, massage, thermal mud therapy, and salt cave relaxation, with all products 100 percent natural. This is very much a rejuvenating, hydrothermal treatment with detoxifying, energising, circulatory stimulating and immune-boosting benefits.
With several restaurants offering Thai and international dining, The Library for afternoon teas and snacks, and the romantic roof-top Sun & Moon bar, Amatara is also about enjoying a fully rounded island holiday.
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4. Amanpuri | Pansea Beach, West Coast
Amanpuri, the first Aman resort and spiritual home of Aman Wellness, is the group’s flagship resort. On Phuket’s west coast, the resort is tucked away on its own peninsula, on rolling hillsides amongst swaying coconut palms and rich vegetation with an idyllic white sandy beach and turquoise water. The name Amanpuri translates to peaceful place, fitting supremely with the resort’s blend of Thai tradition and natural setting.
The resort’s accommodation offerings are exceptional, with villas ranging from one to nine bedrooms, complete with a swimming pool and terrace offering ample privacy. Amanpuri’s suite of restaurants provide a culinary journey featuring authentic cuisines of Thailand, Japan, and the Mediterranean. The modern on-site fitness centre boasts outstanding ocean views and has its own Muay Thai training facility.
Amanpuri’s Wellness Centre has been a pioneer since originating in 1988. ‘Wellness’ is viewed as a ‘process’, not a program. Individualised Wellness Immersions are designed after a thorough consultation, tailored to match the guest’s lifestyle, enabling integration in the longer term. Immersions pay equal attention to four crucial pillars: nutrition; movement – high intensity to more mindfulness activities; mindfulness – meditation and breathwork; and touch – massage and healing products.
In addition, Amanpuri Spa has in-house doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and access to other specialists. Integrating leading medical practices and Chinese traditional medicine focuses on three main aspects: Anti-Ageing and Prevention, Sports Performance and Aesthetics. Services include extensive diagnostics, hormone therapy, colon hydrotherapy, physiotherapy, IV Nutrient Infusions, supplements and more.
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5. Trisara | Nai Thon Beach, Northwest Coast
Entering this stunning resort through lush tropical forest sets the scene perfectly. Trisara translates from ancient Sanskrit to “The Gardens of the Third Heaven”. Sixty spacious ocean-facing pool villas and multi-bedroom residences are perched on hillsides with commanding views and privacy – offering guests their own slice of heaven. Located on the North West coast of Phuket, with a beautiful and private beach frontage, Trisara is just 15 mins from the international airport.
The Trisara team has seen people’s focus in this pandemic impacted time to be more on their personal wellbeing. Subsequently, Jara Wellness has introduced a ‘Wellness Consultation’ and developed a fully tailored program to build healthy habits for the long term. Ask about the recently developed three, five or seven days Immune Boosting Packages that have received excellent guest feedback.
The ‘Move in Nature’ programs incorporate the health-giving benefits of the outdoors into the activities and include nature walking, Muay Thai, meditation, kayaking, SUP, boot camp, Tai Chi and more. These can be held any time of day to best suit each guest’s schedule.
Rejuvenating Spa Treatments focus on alleviating pain, removing muscle knots, improving circulation, reducing tension, detoxification and relaxation. Traditional Thai herbs and medicines are used in compresses, teas and potions to aid the body in healing and renewal.
Nutrition guidance is incorporated, and with Trisara’s Michelin rated restaurants, healthy eating is nutritious and delicious. Offering Thai and International cuisine, whether enjoyed on the palm-fringed deck, in Seafood at Trisara, PRU with plant-based cuisine or private dining in your villa, you are assured of top quality locally grown and sourced produce.
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6. The Slate | Nai Yang Beach, Northwest Coast
Bordering Sirinat National Park on Phuket’s upper west coast with Nai Yang Beach on its doorstep, The Slate Phuket sits amidst 25 acres of tropical landscaped gardens. A tranquil retreat offering relaxation and harmony for the body and mind. Award-winning designer Bill Bensley has incorporated Phuket’s tin mining history to create a place where rich culture, traditions, and family legacy meet raw elements. Throughout the resort, industrial beauty interrupts, and art converges with nature.
The Slate offers 185 suites and secluded villas, with space and privacy a key. An abundance of dining options are available to tempt, plus the resort’s own cooking school. Recreational facilities include two adult-only and one family swimming pool, tennis courts, kids centre, plus boutiques and art gallery. The Fitness Studio offers all the modern facilities plus a separate yoga room and hosts group stretching and yoga classes.
Hidden away in a tranquil corner of the expansive grounds, Coqoon Spa specialises in deeply rejuvenating rituals with rich, luscious ingredients in the most sumptuous setting. Ensconce yourself in one of six luxurious treatment suites or spoil yourself in the unique Tree Nest. Expert practitioners will design a spa programme specifically tailored to your needs and mood.
Neighbouring Coqoon Spa is KRU Precision Wellness. KRU Wellness looks to better predict, prevent, treat, and manage disease for its clients through non-invasive methods starting with a complimentary doctor’s consultation. KRU is about optimising health based on an individual’s genetics, immune function, metabolism, hormone levels, and vitamin and nutrient deficiencies. Helping rebalance and slow down the ageing process at a cellular level while increasing overall quality of life through natural methods, is the KRU approach.
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7. InterContinental Phuket Resort | Kamala Beach, West Coast
Nestled at the northern end of Kamala Beach, the InterContinental Phuket has the best of both worlds, with a backdrop of forested hills and an oceanfront position. This luxury resort features 221 rooms and villas, blending Thai tradition with a modern touch and offering ocean, pool, garden or mountain view rooms.
Their ‘Soft Wellness’ program focuses on movement, nutrition and therapies to enhance physical and mental wellbeing. Guests may handpick ‘wellness’ activities or treatments. However, the increasingly popular one, three, five, and seven-day wellness packages remove the guesswork. The program is then customised to meet guests’ dietary, physical or other needs.
The Sati Spa offers wonderful relaxation and pampering treatments and occupies the ground floor of a shimmering white Thai temple-like structure. A visual standout. The building design suggests Sati Spa is a place of high reverence – for the body and soul.
Guests are encouraged to choose therapies that focus on wellbeing, like detoxification, tension release, super stretching, rebalancing and improving circulation to improve physical and emotional health. Kick start the day by joining the complimentary daily activities, including Walking Meditation, Muay Thai, Fitness Circuit, or Yoga, to name a few.
When it’s time to nourish the body, choose from three fantastic restaurants offering Thai and International cuisine, from relaxed beachside to elegant dining in Jaras. Notably, the vast range of healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner options are superb and delicious.
With four swimming pools, a contemporary gymnasium, and scheduled daily activities, you can easily fill your days at the resort or explore other Phuket attractions. Do as much or as little as you want.
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8. Six Senses Yao Noi | Koh Yao Noi
Six Senses Yao Noi rests on a lush forested hillside, with breathtaking views of iconic limestone karsts across the spectacular bay. Koh Yao Noi, meaning long small island, in Phang Nga Bay, is just 45 minutes by speedboat from Phuket.
Elevated expansive one to four-bedroom villas are stylishly designed using natural materials, complete with a private swimming pool, terrace, sun loungers, and sea or forest views. Plunge into a gastronomic adventure of nourishing and delectable seasonal cuisine using flavourful home-grown organic ingredients.
Six Senses Integrated Wellness program starts with a personal 60-minute consultation analysing physiological biomarkers of health. Using smart technology, wellness experts measure your inner health, movement and sleep patterns to ensure they can personalise the treatments, activities and nutritional advice based on your specific needs. The aim is to enhance every aspect of your experience to feel immediate, real benefits however long your stay.
Personalised wellness plans of at least three days include a daily spa treatment, a fitness/wellness activity, guidance on nutrition and is designed around common concerns of sleep, fitness and detox. A post-program review provides take-home advice. Six Senses Yao Noi Spa offers signature massages designed to soothe, relax and rejuvenate while enriching facial, body and beauty treatments, available for those looking simply to relax.
The resort is perfect for relaxing, and yet it also provides exciting experiences on and off the water, creating heart-warming and cherished memories. Visiting and snorkelling at nearby islands, cycling through Koh Yao Noi’s villages and experiencing authentic Thai culture or participating in the resort’s sustainability programs are just a few of the options.
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9. Thanyapura | Central
Want to train like the professionals? For something completely different, Thanyapura can not be beat. Offering an array of classes including Muay Thai, yoga, meditation, and swimming clinics in the Olympic-sized pool, we love the variety available on the daily schedule here. Complete with football fields, bike track, running track, tennis courts, fully equipped gym, and sports science professionals, it’s no wonder that international athletes travel to shave seconds off their time here.
But on top of the sports facilities, it’s the wellness clinic that people love too. Here you can have everything from Full Body Checks to appointments with nutritionists, chiropractors, osteopaths, and a range of tests and procedures to get you fighting fit. Or maybe a little Botox or HIFU is more what you’re looking for?
A full-range of relaxing and sports massage options are on offer at the spa and we are big fans of the restaurant which has an amazing array of vegan options.
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