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This 105-room hotel stands next to a fine sandy beach, with views of a yacht marina and the pretty port of Fréjus. It specializes in using the beneficial effects of the marine environment, including sea water, seaweed, sand and other substances, together with the Mediterranean climate.

The 4-star Ile Rousse combines the pleasures of the beach with health and beauty programmes based on its seawater spa fitness centre. The hotel has a fully-trained team and offers a range of personal programmes.

The Romans were among the first to revere the healing properties of the thermal springs which flow from Mont Ste-Victoire, where you can take the waters in a modernized 18th-century palace, with an array of power showers, hydro-massage and mud wraps to eliminate stress and toxins.

Just outside Avignon, the 4-star hotel is a complex of 30 junior suites, each with whirlpool bath. There are also 18- and 9-hole golf courses.

On the ninth floor of one of Nice’s finest luxury establishments, the hotel’s beauty and fitness centre offers everything from sauna and massage to manicure and make-up advice.

Right in the centre of the thermal resort of Digne, this luxurious hotel offers a range of treatments in the adjoining hot springs, which are used to treat arthritis, rheumatism and a range of respiratory conditions.

A range of spa packages at the sulphur-rich thermal springs of Gréoux-les-Bains is available to guests in this farmhouse-hotel with swimming pool, golf practice range and a restaurant noted for its Provençal menu.

A modern hotel close to Gréoux’s famous hot springs, the Borghese offers a range of menus to complement the health and beauty treatments available at the spa. Other facilities include a swimming pool, sauna and solarium.

Monte Carlo’s most glamorous hotel has direct access to the most modern health spa in Europe. The hotel also has four restaurants, its own hairdresser and luxury boutiques.

This huge hotel offers its own health spa and heated pool as well as a range of treatments offered at the nearby Thalassotherapy and Health Centre. It also has a casino, four restaurants and bar.