The Best 6 Hotel Spas in Atlanta, According to Our Editors

Atlanta’s hotel-spa scene has entered a more ambitious era. A treatment may now begin with guided breathwork, unfold over several hours or lead into a candlelit meditation in the pool. Elsewhere, traditional facials and bodywork share space with cold plunges, compression equipment and red-light therapy.

The result is a collection of spas that feel less like hotel amenities than destinations in their own right. Here’s where to book.

The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta

Neighborhood: Midtown

The Four Seasons runs one of the city’s most complete traditional spas: 10 treatment rooms, a 62-foot heated indoor pool, wood-burning saunas, eucalyptus steam rooms, and a sun deck. The menu leans local. The Midtown Massage, created exclusively for the hotel, uses locally made lavender-and-rosemary products, and the Piedmont Park Polish, a citrus-and-alfalfa-root scrub, takes its name from the hotel’s most famous neighbor. The signature booking is Night Spa, which gives couples private after-hours use of the pool and thermal facilities, with customized massages, Champagne and light bites. Past programming has brought floating meditation and sound baths to the pool. It is Midtown’s classic counterpart to the Buckhead houses that follow.

Book it for: A full traditional spa day, or the most romantic after-hours booking in Atlanta.

75 Fourteenth Street NE; 404.253.3848

The Spa at The St. Regis Atlanta

Neighborhood: Buckhead

The St. Regis brings the same ceremony to its spa that it brings to afternoon tea. Ten treatment rooms, including a couples suite, sit alongside a Vichy shower, sauna, steam room and technology-assisted facials, and visits close in the Iridium Lounge with personalized tea, a St-Germain spritzer and sweets. Beginning November 1, the three-hour Gift of Restoration pairs two 90-minute treatments: the Himalayan Escape, with guided breathing, Tibetan singing bowls and warm salt stones, and Rose Quartz Radiance, with warm stones, botanical skin care and Hungarian-inspired facial massage. A gift is included. On weekdays, Wellness on the Go fits a 60-minute massage or facial, sauna, steam, tea, a treat tower and a drink ahead of breakfast or lunch in Astor Court. Where the Four Seasons leans romantic, the St. Regis leans celebratory.

Book it for: A birthday, an anniversary or any spa day that should end with a tea tower.

88 West Paces Ferry Road NW; 404.563.7683

Waldorf Astoria Spa Atlanta Buckhead

Neighborhood: Buckhead

The Waldorf Astoria Spa covers 15,000 square feet across two floors, with 13 treatment rooms, vitality pools, saunas, steam rooms, relaxation lounges and a 60-foot saline lap pool overlooking the hotel’s English Garden. Its “City Within the Forest” theme takes its cue from Atlanta’s tree canopy. Forest Therapy pairs an evergreen, pink pepper, cypress and juniper massage with a mud treatment for the hands and feet and a scalp massage, and a portion of proceeds benefits Trees Atlanta. The rest of the menu runs from the Enchanted Sleep ritual to the stretch-heavy Peachtree Sports Massage and Biologique Recherche facials. It shares that French skin-care line with Spa InterContinental, a short drive up Peachtree.

Book it for: A long, unhurried day across the most expansive facilities in Buckhead.

3376 Peachtree Road NE; 404.995.7526

exhale Spa at Loews Atlanta Hotel

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Neighborhood: Midtown

The seventh-floor spa completed a renovation this spring and now operates as a co-branded club with Salt Fitness, an Atlanta-based performance and recovery brand. The draw is the hammam, which almost nothing else in the city offers, along with a hot-rock sauna and Zen lounge. A newly curated menu covers massage, facials and body treatments. Recover by Salt adds contrast therapy, red light and compression, with reformer Pilates and coach-led strength training alongside. It all feeds Loews’ new Active Stays program, which also puts equipment-free workouts from Makena Rae on in-room TVs, and hotel guests get $50 off any spa service.

Book it for: The hammam, and the most serious recovery program in a Midtown hotel.

1065 Peachtree Street NE; 404.720.5000

The Spa at FORTH

Photo Credit: Courtesy of FORTH Hotel

Neighborhood: Old Fourth Ward

FORTH treats the hotel spa as a social club. The spa sits inside a 20,000-square-foot wellness center with a full gym, Pilates, yoga and HIIT classes, recovery equipment and a heated rooftop pool. Recovery is the draw: cold plunges, saunas and steam rooms for hot-cold cycling, plus compression sleeves and massage guns for targeted work. Afterward, there is Italian at Il Premio, Mediterranean at Elektra or a drink at Moonlight on the roof. Some areas and programming are reserved for FORTH Club members, so confirm access before booking. With exhale, it leads the city’s recovery-first spas; FORTH is the livelier of the two.

Book it for:  Cold plunges, a class and a rooftop drink beside the Beltline.

800 Rankin Street NE; 470.470.8010

Spa InterContinental

Neighborhood: Buckhead

Spa InterContinental is the results-driven choice. Its Biologique Recherche partnership extends past facials into body treatments, including the 75-minute Lotion P50 Slimming Algae Body Wrap, which pairs exfoliation with an algae mask on a heated bed. Guests choose an aroma on arrival, and massages can be adjusted with warming or cooling elements. The spa opens onto the Peachtree Pool, a heated outdoor saltwater pool open year-round, with a whirlpool, cabanas and a seasonal bar. Day-pass options for non-guests may pair lounge access with a 50-minute massage; confirm inclusions when booking. It is the most skin-care-focused of the Buckhead spas.

Book it for: French skin care followed by an afternoon at the saltwater pool.

3315 Peachtree Road NE; 404.946.9175