Dior Just Opened Its First Spa in Latin America, Inside Rio’s Most Famous Hotel

Dior has opened its first spa in Latin America. Dior Spa Copacabana Palace welcomed guests from November 3, 2026, at Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro. It arrives with the hotel’s renovated Pool Wing and a new five-storey Wellness Club.

Built in 1923 overlooking Copacabana Beach, the palace has kept Rio’s rhythms for a century. It has unveiled a renovated all-suite Pool Wing by Brazilian interior architect Ivan Rezende, following a 19-month renovation. The Wellness Club inside that wing now holds Dior’s first spa in Brazil.

The house has a long memory in Rio. In 1961, Marc Bohan, Dior’s creative director from 1960 to 1989, presented an Haute Couture collection in the palace gardens. Fourteen years later, he used Copacabana Beach as the backdrop for a swimwear campaign. This spa is less a market grab than a return.

Just a few steps from the hotel’s famed pool, the spa welcomes guests in six treatment rooms, including one double. A boutique carries Dior skincare, makeup and fragrances, and a lounge holds the Haute Wellness collection, plus couture accessories and jewelry.

Dior’s subdued shades sit against local woods and natural stones in botanical hues. Works by São Paulo-based sculptor and painter Fabiana Preti, drawn from the flowers Christian Dior adored, finish the rooms. It is a careful mix of maison codes and Brazilian material.

The menu has a local author. Dior partnered with Dr. Maria Bussade, founder of São Paulo’s Bussade Health, whose work in aesthetic dermatology tracks the house’s brief on skin health. Together they built signatures around Carioca life: sun exposure, busy schedules, travel and celebrations.

The Couture Radiance Facial is a 90-minute ritual designed to reset the skin and reveal its glow. It begins with an abdominal massage and a double cleanse, then exfoliation and Les Crins Précieux Dior dry brushing. A deep facial massage, electrical current, a cryo-remodeling mask, lifting micro-current and red LEDs follow.

Carioca High Body Sculpt takes its cue from the Brazilian art of body enhancement. An abdominal massage leads into maderotherapy-inspired work with wenge wood rollers, suction cups and body gua sha. Red and blue LEDs target specific zones, and Dior Solar The Sublimating Oil finishes the skin.

The spa also offers Dior’s established protocols. Kobi-Dior, cocreated with International Wellness Expert Hadda Akrim, reworks the Japanese Kobido technique into a precise sculpting facial. New Look Dior applies that same revolutionary mindset to the body, combining sculpting, drainage and micro-stimulation.

Exclusive to this address, the Healing Heart Ceremony is a holistic ritual inspired by the ocean. The hotel’s new yoga studio is set with Dior Haute Wellness meditation cushions, and semi-precious stones are used with singing bowls, gongs and bells. An herbal tea brings guests back before they step outside again.

Dior Spa Copacabana Palace is at Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel, Avenida Atlântica, 1702, Rio de Janeiro.

For more of Haute Living’s Dior Spa coverage, see the Dior Spa at Hotel Cipriani in Venice and Dior Spa Splendido in Portofino.