Best day spa Philadelphia
Winner of our Crowdsourced Champion online poll.
David J. Witchell
25 South State Street, Newtown, PAThe salon level is bustling chaos, which makes walking down to the subterranean spa called the Grotto a transformative experience from the start. The therapeutic massages (one even incorporates warm bamboo stalks) are muscle-melting bliss, but its the details that earn Witchell top billing: plush robes and slippers for padding around the cave-like space, headphones… Read more »
AME Salon and Spa
111 Waynewood Avenue, Wayne, PAMoko Beauty Studio
55 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PAOpt for the ayurvedic facial, which instantly relaxes and refreshes. Then bliss out your beauty arsenal with their hard-to-find-elsewhere all-natural product lines. No Birkenstocks required. Read more »
Rescue Rittenhouse Spa
255 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, PALaurentius Salon
815 Christian Street, Philadelphia, PAIndividually, the nail treatments, the magazine-ad makeup application and the hair-glamming are all worth visits. But when you have to look good, schedule all three, and everyone at the party will ask for your secrets. Read more »
Southampton Spa
141 Second Street Pike, Southampton, PAIf the Turkish bath, Russian bath, sauna, cold plunge pool, heated lap pool, barraging Swiss shower, sunbathing courtyard and juice bar can’t cure what ails you, we know a few shrinks you can call. Read more »
Joseph Anthony Retreat Spa and Salon
243 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills, PAIf the hypothetical Real Housewives of the Main Line retreated to this big-as-a-McMansion salon and spa for body floats or sea soaks or Alpine herbal steam therapy or any number its sublime Service and Help, they wouldn’t, hypothetically, argue so much. Read more »
Nurture Spa
415 South York Road, New Hope, PANot too big. Not too small. Not too trendy, fussy, pricey or offbeat. Just crisp, modern, relaxing (seriously, a facial with Lorrie or Nora has been known to induce gentle snoring), and thorough enough to be restful and glamorous and effective. In other words, just right. Read more »
255 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, PASometimes it takes a glamorous aesthetician who was born in Poland, trained in France, and then toiled in Manhattan to really get it. Five years after she opened Rescue, Danuta Mieloch remains peerless. Her space: spare yet luxurious, central yet secluded. Her products: splurge-y yet essential. (Show us a Philadelphienne who doesn’t douse her face… Read more »