Fitness spas in the Ardèche

Fitness spa resorts and hydrotherapy

If you want to relax and get fitter, Ardèche-Tourism offers you fitness spa resorts and hydrotherapy.

Hydrotherapy is the medical technique that uses the water that emerges from thermal groundwater springs. In France there are more than 1,200 thermal springs.

In the Ardèche, the use of mineral and thermal waters goes back to the Middle Ages. Indeed, the Ardèche boasts the three most important thermal springs in France. These springs produce excellent therapeutic waters: Neyrac-les-Bains/Meyras a mediaeval village, Saint-Laurent-les-Bains, a small village nestled in pleasant surroundings, and last but not least Vals-les-Bains.

If you want to go for a course of treatments at a spa, if you enjoy wellness and well-being sessions, the Ardèche is your destination. It is the place where you will make the most of exceptional treatments, of the therapeutic effects of thermal spring water.

Thanks to the different therapeutic qualities of spring waters, the spa resorts offer treatments adapted to the needs of the visitors: aromatic mud wraps, steam room (hamman), full body massages, massages with essential oils, spa and facials.

• NEYRAC-LES-BAINS
The village is surrounded by the young volcanoes of Soulhiol. The Neyrac offers three kinds of treatments: water treatments to cure rheumatism, to treat skin problems and it also offers 3-6 day wellness packages featuring body exfoliation, massages with ylang oils …
Contact: www.thermesdeneyrac.com

• SAINT-LAURENT-LES-BAINS
Belonging to the 'Chaîne Thermale' du Soleil chain, the spa of Saint-Laurent-les- Bains offers treatments to cure rheumatism, fibromyalgia and proposes spa and wellness packages (6 day packages). The thermal water springs up at 53° centigrade.
Contact: www.saint-laurent-les-bains.fr

• VALS-LES-BAINS
Vals-Les-Bains features 145 cold springs (13°C). Its waters contain bicarbonate and sodium.At the Spa Centre in Vals-Les-Bains you can have a course of individual treatments or spa treatments (3-6 day packages).
Contact: www.thermesdevals.com