Hoar Cross Hall Resort honoured by travel industry for 4th year running

Hoar Cross Hall Spa Resort has won the prestigious World Travel Awards as England’s Leading Resort. The award was announced at a glittering ceremony held in Slovakia’s AquaCity in front of an elite assembly of senior travel, tourism and hospitality executives as well as press and broadcast media. The resort beat of stiff competition from leading spa resorts across the UK, following a voting campaign by more than 160,000 travel professionals. The World Travel Awards, established 15 years ago, and described by the acclaimed Wall Street Journal as the ‘Oscars’ of the global industry encourages greater quality, value and, above all, exceptional customer service spanning every sector and region worldwide. The Spa industry is one of the most rapidly growing industries in the tourism sector and the award is viewed as having strategic importance and is a hallmark of excellence.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Hoar Cross Hall Spa Resort has won this influential award which is regarded as the highest achievement that a resort could ever hope to attain. Mr Stephen F Joynes MBE, managing director of Hoar Cross Hall Spa Resort, who was honoured in 2006 with an MBE for his services to the industry commented, “It’s a wonderful achievement… we feel very honoured to have won this award for the fourth year running. It’s a testament to all the staff we have employed here over the years who have made Hoar Cross Hall a paradise on earth for thousands of repeat guests we’ve had coming through our doors.” Hoar Cross Hall Spa Resort, a Grade II listed building, was built by Sir Hugo Meynell for his wife Emily Charlotte, daughter of Viscount Halifax, between 1860 to 1869. In 1989 Stephen F Joynes purchased it, lovingly restoring it far beyond its former glory, now five times its original size. It is now confirmed as England’s leading spa resort, the only spa resort in a Stately Home, offering a unique combination of traditional elegance alongside the superb facilities of a modern Romanesque style spa resort with 180,000 sq ft of the most extensive spa facilities in the UK.

Since it opened in 1991, Hoar Cross Hall Spa Resort has gone from strength to strength. The 100 acre, Grade II-listed stately home is now a 100 room resort, which Stephen F Joynes has spent £50 million over the last 30 years restoring. It boasts celebrity guests such as Catherine Zeta Jones, Joan Collins, Robbie Williams, Take That, Girls Aloud and Clive Owen. The resort is famous for its magnificent amenities which include a hydrotherapy pool, 26 meter salt water swimming pool, spa and massage pools, two water grottos, steam rooms, saunas, saunariums, aromatherapy room, relaxation areas, 100 treatment rooms offering over 100 different treatments, 4000 sq ft gymnasium, aerobics, yoga and pilates suites, 9 hole golf course, formal gardens, continental roof terrace gardens and five lakes.