Norfolk Broads spa named one of best in UK

The Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall introduced its boozy baths in August as part of a £3.5m investment. 

The refurb included a new thermal suite boasting a hydrotherapy pool, herbal steam room and an “outdoor oasis” area featuring an aromatic sauna, hot tub and cold shower buckets.

Inside the new spa at The Norfolk Mead Hotel (Image: Simon Watson Photography)The spa was named in the UK’s top 50 as well as East Anglia’s spa of the year in The Times and Sunday Times guide.

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The judges loved its “state-of-the-art complex” with “son-et-lumiere showers” and described it as an “independently-owned hotel that offers ambitious dinners and world-class massages”.

The beer spa includes your own beer tap (Image: Tatum Reid Photography) The Beer Spa is a UK first but is a popular European treatment “celebrated for its antioxidant effects”.

Guests enter a wooden tub filled with vitamin-rich malt and hops and get their own beer tap with Woodforde’s Brewery as the supplier.