The Vale Resort in Hensol, south Wales, has scooped a top industry award for its leisure division at the annual 59 Club Service Excellence Awards. The Valeâs leisure offering includes a full range of gym facilities, squash and tennis courts, a 20m swimming pool as well as more than 50 led fitness classes per week
Author: Ashleigh MacKenzie
The Yacht Pool is the latest design in the Compass Pools range of one-piece in-ground swimming pools. The Yacht Pool features some very obvious nautical styling cues, from the teak decking surrounding the integral hydrotherapy hot tub, to the polished steel handrails adorning each side of the stylised bow. Even the controls which operate the hydrotherapy jets are based on a pair of stainless steel marine throttle levers. The Yacht Pool features other refinements like multi-coloured LED underwater lighting and a counter-current swimming unit.
Peterborough-based Posh Spas is maximising the potential of a major PR coup after signing up Strictly Come Dancing and gymnastic star, Louis Smith, as its latest customer, writes Christina Connor. Pictures of the 24-year-old Olympic silver medallist in his new hot tub have been splashed all over the local and national papers including a special feature in the celebrated Hello magazine.
With names like Master Blaster, Lagoona Bay and Volcano Springs, the Cariba Creek water park at the Alton Towerâs Splash Landings Hotel is still conjuring up as much aquatic excitement as it was when it first switched on the water features ten years ago. On the actual tenth birthday this month, the venue will be staging a suitably spectacular birthday celebration with pool side competitions, a steel band and lots of waterpark giveaways.
A young Tyneside woman, who fought back from two life-threatening diseases, celebrated a landmark birthday and a clean bill of health in style thanks to Artesian Spa dealers, North Spas of Birtley. Rachel White was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis in November 2011. She made a full recovery but five months later, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had to undergo an emergency operation.
Butlinâs has been a part of the British holiday scene for more than 70 years and its pools are a central feature of each resort. But what have they to offer the 21st century holidaymaker? Jan Hurst reportsâŠ
Transforming the British holiday experience, the vision of Butlinâs founder, Billy Butlinâs, back in the 1930s, was to provide affordable, fun holidays for British families. The mission statement stays the same but todayâs facilities, with multi-million water leisure investments are a world away from the chalet-style accommodation of the original Butlinsâ camps.
Lidos have a special meaning for those of us of a certain age. They evoke childhood memories of style and glamour with outdoor swimming, ice creams by the pool and art deco buildings, often gleaming white. But the development of modern indoor pools saw a great number of these outdoor pleasure palaces disappear as they fell into disrepair and failed to compete with modern local sports facilities.
Barry McCabe, owner of multi-awarding winning, Oyster Pools & Leisure, based in Monmouthshire, Wales, was once a London bus driver. Therefore, without him knowing, his wife Paula devised a âmobile partyâ for Barryâs 70th that everyone agreed was a triumph.
Regarded as the expert in wellbeing rooms for prestigious residential properties, Dröm UK has designed many stunning bespoke saunas and steam rooms which are often situated side by side for the ultimate bathing experience. Proving that saunas are no longer just a wooden box, there is nothing ordinary about the innovative saunas from Dröm UK. Meeting new standards of aesthetics, functionality and luxury, each room is individually hand-crafted by skilled craftsmen. Every detail, from the feature lighting or integrated music system to the ergonomically designed benches, is carefully considered. The finest quality materials make the sauna stylish and practical inside and out.
olden Coast has secured an exclusive UK distribution deal with leading filter cartridge manufacturer Darlly Europe. The announcement comes hot on the heels of confirmation that Triogen, a world leader in ozone and UV water treatment systems, has selected Golden Coast, as its first and only UK distributor.
