7 Revitalizing Vacations To Inspire Your Next Chapter

Surrendering to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside is fairly easy, but especially so at Borgo Santo Pietro. At the 300-acre estate, owners Claus and Jeanette Thottrup have created an entire world around food, nature and wellbeing. Its 22 bespoke rooms and suites are to be found among organic gardens and a working farm, from which the produce graces the tables at Michelin-starred Saporium and the more relaxed Trattoria Sull’Albero. The estate is also the birthplace of skincare brand Seed to Skin Tuscany, with its own laboratory and flagship holistic spa on site. For anyone with a creative disposition, there are art lessons to indulge in and the more adventurous can trip out for a vineyard tour or sail aboard Borgo Santo Pietro’s private yacht, Satori. For those seeking a complete reset, languishing for a few days at the infinity pool and spa should be just the ticket.

For a revitalizing reboot that puts considerable distance between you and the everyday, &Beyond Punakha River Lodge, in Bhutan’s lush Punakha Valley, could be the experience of a lifetime. With just six tented luxury suites, alongside a River House and Family Suite, the intimate lodge makes the overwhelmingly beautiful landscape part of the experience. On offer are early morning yoga sessions overlooking the mountains, forest hikes, temple visits, walks through rice terraces and lunches beneath orange trees. The wellness journey they outline is similarly inspired by the surroundings, with spa rituals using indigenous herbs and a traditional Dotsho hot-stone bath, where river stones are fire-heated and added to medicinal waters. Plus, for December 2026, visiting wellness practitioner Vijaya will conduct sessions that span reiki, craniosacral therapy, breathwork and sound healing. It is an extraordinary setting in which to move, breathe, explore and return home with the world feeling a little bigger.

Eriro, the nine-bedroom retreat sitting 1,550 meters above sea level in the Austrian Alps and accessible only by cable car, is pared-back luxury with wellness principles at its core. Its interiors are crafted largely from local materials and the hotel’s architecture employs and indoor-outdoor ethos, designed to draw you into the incredible vastness of the surrounding mountains, even from the indulgent security of Eriro. Depending on the season, there is mountain biking, guided barefoot walking through forests and meadows, skiing or meditation in the wilderness, alongside experiences inspired by the traditions of the Tyrolean peaks, like learning local crafts using natural materials. The spa is formed in part from untamed rocks and its meditation pools are fed from the area’s natural springs. It is ethereal, earthy and encourages deep rest.

Sterrekopje Farm in South Africa’s Franschhoek Valley celebrates the joy of doing pleasurable things. Spread across 50 acres, the retreat has 11 separate sanctuaries, with four-poster beds, natural linens, local artworks and pieces collected from around the world: gorgeously personal, interestingly curated spaces to retreat to between days spent outdoors. Massage, yoga, meditation and breathwork give ample opportunity to slow down, but Sterrekopje’s particular charm exists in making creativity and play part of the equation. Guests might harvest ingredients from the farm, bake alongside the chefs or spend an afternoon working with clay in a pottery workshop. Occasional retreat weeks add a more communal dimension, but the essential proposition remains wonderfully simple: beautiful surroundings, nourishing food, restorative treatments and the luxury of having time to do things purely because they feel good.

Less than an hour from Paris, Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay is a wonderfully unique proposition. The former 12th-century Cistercian abbey sits amid 185 acres in the Chevreuse Valley, its historic architecture transformed by designer Cordelia de Castellane with bold color, pattern, antiques and artworks. There is plenty to tempt guests outdoors, but the Tata Harper Spa, housed in the estate’s former Haras, is a genuinely excellent reason to disappear for an afternoon. Seven treatment rooms, including two duo cabins, sit alongside a sauna, hammam, hot baths and a swimming corridor leading to the outdoor pool, with Tata Harper facials, massages and body treatments on the menu. A deliciously lush form of rejuvenation.

Concealed in the deep, dense pine trees covering a hillside in remote Montana, the exclusive, adults-only sanctuary of The Green O offers a forest bolthole in which to completely disconnect from the everyday. Its 12 luxurious ‘Haus’ cabins have been designed to deliver the utmost privacy and immersion in nature, with glass walls offering views of the Blackfoot River Valley and rugged mountaintops. For those keen to venture further, the surroundings can be explored by foot, bike, horseback, boat and hot-air balloon.

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