Susan d'Arcy
Susan d’Arcy has been writing about luxury travel for more than 25 years. Her assignments have included eating gold in Abu Dhabi, being the first person to sleep underwater in the Maldives and even spending a night alone in the Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of an art installation. She also writes about wellness and has been wrapped, slapped, rubbed and scrubbed in the world’s best spas and oversees the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Stay hotel guide.
Wildly restorative: 5 nature-immersed wellbeing retreats
When life feels overstimulated and ungrounded, nature has a way of calling us back to ourselves. From jungle canopies and thermal rivers to rice paddies and seaweed-wrapped coastlines, these wellbeing
5 January 2026
Elevated wellbeing escapes: 5 mountain retreats made for meaningful rest
When the world feels too fast paced, the mountains offer the ultimate antidote. Whether blanketed in winter snow or wildflowers come spring, these high-altitude hideaways invite a deeper kind of
20 November 2025
Beyond the spa: these wellbeing hotels are changing how we rest
In an over-tired world that never slows down, meaningful rest has become both a luxury and a necessity. Each emotionally intelligent escape within the SLH Wellbeing Collection is deeply attuned
15 August 2025
