Meet your thermal sanctuary at the Francis Hotel Spa

Your Thermal Suite Experience

The thermal experience is exclusive to our guests and the only one of its kind in Bath. A private sanctuary featuring GAIA skincare, combining warmth, purification, and temperature contrast in one beautiful ritual. 

You start by choosing how you'd like to purify:

Steam with nourishing body mud 

The traditional path that Bath has offered since Roman times. Steam opens your pores and gets your blood flowing. Mineral-rich mud draws out what your skin doesn't need while delivering nourishment. This is therapeutic in the truest sense, creating real physical benefits you can feel.

Cleansing foam experience

Gentle bubbles made from coconut oil that cover your body in soft purification. Less serious than mud, more playful, but just as effective. The foam cleanses while the coconut oil hydrates. Wellness that feels indulgent rather than medicinal. 

Invigorating conclusion

Both journeys end with the shower circuit, jets of hot and cold water at just the right pressure, aromatherapy fragrance filling the steam around you.  
 
This temperature contrast does something remarkable to your body. Hot water opens your blood vessels and brings fresh oxygen. Cold water tightens things back up, reduces any inflammation, and releases those feel good endorphins. Moving between hot and cold creates a natural pumping effect that clears out what your body doesn't need and delivers fresh nutrients where they belong. 

Forty-five minutes in your private thermal sanctuary. Warmth, cleansing, contrast, quiet. Just water, steam, and your own breathing. You step out feeling genuinely restored, not just temporarily relaxed. 

The Francis Hotel Spa offers something different. A private thermal ritual instead of social bathing. A space designed entirely around restoring you, at your pace, with nobody else's timing affecting your experience. All tucked within the same Georgian townhouses where John Wood once lived, and Bath's story began. 

This is the only private thermal suite in the heritage city of Bath. Your own sanctuary, your own rhythm, forty-five minutes of Bath's two-thousand-year wellbeing tradition that belongs completely to you. 

Make your experience even better by pairing your thermal time with a massage or facial treatment afterwards. The warmth opens everything up, gets your circulation going, and releases tension. After forty-five minutes in the thermal suite, your body is ready for deeper work. Book them together for the full experience. Give yourself three hours. 

The spa sits behind our Georgian facade, tucked beside the garden that most guests don't realise we have, your secret haven. We've kept the Georgian character intact, the proportions and details that make these spaces feel the way they do, while creating something Bath has never offered in this private form. 

Heritage through wellness. Two thousand years of healing, designed for today, available only to guests staying with us. 

Book your thermal experience from March. Bath's only private thermal sanctuary, in the townhouses where the city's story began.