Nourish your body and soul after serious time in the sun with our favourite Gold Coast spas.
Let’s not kid ourselves — sinking into a day spa is blissful no matter which corner of the country you’re exploring. However, throwing in serious ocean proximity, chilled out beach town vibes and a pinch of Hinterland lushness does sweeten the deal. From simple massages to soothe overworked muscles to entirely transformative bathhouse rituals, lavish facials and top-to-toe packages, the best Gold Coast day spas and Gold Coast spa experiences will have you floating out the door.
Here, a local’s verdict on the city’s most sumptuous soothers to help you finally drop those shoulders.
Surfers Paradise
1. Chuan Spa
Each treatment room comes with heated treatment beds. (Image: Chuan Spa)
The Langham towers as one of the Gold Coast’s best hotels, so it’s only natural that its resident day spa also excels. Guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine principles and incorporating the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water, Chuan Spa kneads, brushes, wraps and steams grounded magic across eight treatment rooms. Each room serves as a miniature Langham suite, complete with Diptyque-dotted ensuites, electric curtains and heated treatment beds, ensuring you’re ridiculously comfortable from the moment you arrive. Skilled beauty professionals perform indulgences spanning massages, facials (their lemongrass scented heated face towels are a beautiful touch), body scrubs, body wraps, hand and foot therapies and beauty add-ons. Products include Australian-made iKOU and Qi beauty, while Biologique Recherche carries the flag for France and AMRA Skincare represents the UK. Once you’re done, linger in the spa’s relaxation lounge where giant egg-shaped day beds and post-treatment tea await, or take advantage of the ocean-fronting indoor pool and nearby saunas.
Where: Level 2, The Langham, 38 Old Burleigh Rd, Surfers Paradise
Prices: View the treatment menu
2. Lan Bathhouse
Achieve peak serenity in one of the therapeutic pools. (Image: Lan Bathhouse)
If your kind of spa day involves grabbing your best mate and sipping on bubbles, Lan Bathhouse is made for you. While three heated magnesium-infused spa baths, one 12-degree cold plunge, a sauna, a steam room, a private hireable spa and treatment rooms offer relaxation, the central bar is this spot’s drawcard. Dishing up cheese platters, drinks in pool-safe plastic glasses and a lounge area overlooking the bustle of Surfers Paradise below, the headliner lures wellness-conscious friends in desperate need of unwinding (and catching up). The fit out, meanwhile, is beautiful, a monochromatic network of curvaceous, blush-hued alcoves with flourishes of greenery that connect like magical caves.
Where: Level 1, Paradise Centre, 2 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise
Prices: From $35 per person and the price tag increases if you visit during peak times.
3. Spa by JW
Step into JW Marriott’s heavenly day spa. (Image: Supplied)
Peel yourself away from the Gold Coast’s best resort pool to uncover the JW Marriott’s heavenly day spa, Spa by JW. A monochromatic palette of raw materials like terracotta and stone, plush lounges and soft lighting welcome you before six indoor and outdoor relaxation zones press play on serious R&R. The zones provide ample creature comforts including bathroom amenities, fluffy robes and slippers, while the treatments themselves cover all your basics with the addition of signature ‘Sensory Spa’ packages that throw in a drink and rice paper roll. ‘Experience’ showers, fitted with pressure jets and steam, elevate every visit, and don’t forget to drop into the sauna, too.
Where: Level 1, JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa, 158 Ferny Ave, Surfers Paradise
Prices: View their treatment menus
4. SpaQ
Get yourself pampered at spaQ.
Putting their own spin on your average ‘set-menu’ spa, spaQ focuses on tailored experiences to suit holiday makers. The Gold Coast spa opens with a product-filled foyer and comfy seating before guests are invited to change into robes and relax in one of the treatment rooms, which includes a couple’s suite. Enjoyed too much Gold Coast sun? Try the ‘Skin Rescue’ package, which goes for 120 glorious minutes. Your skin will love you for its rehydrating facial and aloe vera body wrap, your hair will adore the protective treatment, and your muscles will cherish the neck and shoulder massages.
Where: Level 1, QT Gold Coast, 1/7 Staghorn Ave, Surfers Paradise
Prices: View the treatment menu
5. Endota Spa Surfers Paradise
Endota Spa offers a variety of wellness treatments that aim to beautify you from top to toe.
If you’re reading an article on spas, you’ve surely heard of one of Australia’s most reliably soothing spa businesses, Endota Spa. Its Surfers Paradise outpost continues the chain’s excellent service, designed to refresh and beautify you from top to toe. Organic facials are renowned for their long-lasting effects, and you can add boosters into the mix, too. Elsewhere, massages are consistently good, targeted to whatever you need tinkered with, and beauty services are also extensive.
Where: Chevron Renaissance Shopping Centre, B1/3240 Surfers Paradise Blvd, Surfers Paradise
Prices: View the treatment menu
6. Eforea Spa
Pamper yourself with a hydrating facial and scalp massage. (Image: Eforea Spa)
Found inside the Hilton Hotel, eforea spa is a calming sanctuary to take your woes away. The Gold Coast spa offers a bunch of hydrating facials as well as a peel and microdermabrasion, plus a handful of massages, Vichy shower deliciousness, body treatments and foot therapy. Bun in the oven? A dedicated ‘Mother-to-be’ menu will also sort out some babymoon indulgence.
Where: Level 2, 6 Orchid Ave, Surfers Paradise
Prices: View the spa menu
7. Lan Spa
Dishing up a wide range of treatments in the thick of Surfers, Lan Spa instils calm through expert technique. Highlights include the two-hour ‘Her Time’ package where guests receive a glass of bubbles on arrival before diving into a foot scrub and soak, full-body massage and a face mask. To step the decadence up, a sweet treat and tea roll out when you’re done.
Where: Shop 1/7-11 Elkhorn Ave, Surfers Paradise
Prices: Check the website for treatment pricing
Gold Coast inner suburbs
8. The Bathhouse at Ground Currumbin
Embrace the health benefits of hot therapy in a traditional cedar tub. (Image: The Bathhouse)
Hidden amid the lush surroundings of Currumbin Valley’s Ecovillage, The Bathhouse at Ground offers a truly restorative immersion yet to be rivalled on the Gold Coast. Every one-hour session invites you to sink deep into its contrast therapy program, urging you to release muscle tension within the huge wood-fired stone sauna before hopping outdoors to brave an itty-bitty ice bath or plunge into much larger 12-degree waters. Then there’s the hydrotherapy spa baths, positioned under the gums to create deep inner peace, and an infrared sauna out beside them.
Additionally, massages and facials are on offer in the big old Queenslander that houses The Bathhouse’s foyer, inviting some of the coast’s most skilled therapists to send you straight to snooze town. Once you’re done, and you’ll never feel like you are, pop next door to Pasture and Co., one of the Gold Coast’s best cafes, for a loaded sandwich or sugar fix.
Where: 2 Village Way, Currumbin Valley
Prices: $40 per person for a bathhouse session. View the treatment menu
9. Native State
Soothe tired muscles in a traditional cedar sauna. (Image: Native State)
While we’re talking bathhouses, let’s zero in on the completely gorgeous Native State, located on the Gold Coast’s southern beaches. Park your wheels in the Kirra Surf Shop car park around the corner and pay your entry fee to open the door to one of the most serene experiences you’ll encounter on the coast. Offering traditional cedar and infrared saunas, a steam room, a spacious cold plunge, a heated vitality pool (that and the cedar sauna are the busiest for obvious reasons) and a meditation room, the Gold Coast spa is always filled but never feels as though you’re on top of one another. Furthermore, warm teas are always on offer, providing the perfect tail end of a soak session, and chilled water runs on taps alongside paper cups so lugging around a water bottle isn’t required. An Australian Traveller favourite.
Where: 3/2 Creek St, Coolangatta
Prices: From $49 per person
10. La Prairie at David Jones
For the ultimate indulgence, luxury Switzerland-based skincare brand La Prairie is expertly applied by the team themselves in the heart of the Gold Coast. The La Prairie boutique within David Jones at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre is a total local’s secret (sorry, guys), offering a beautiful edit of ‘Art of Beauty’ facials to garner game-changing results. The room itself is surprisingly spacious for a spot within a department store, but feeling a million miles away, you’ll be surprised how pampering the experience always proves. Utilising their globally acclaimed Skin Caviar products, and moving up the scale in indulgence, facials range from 60 minutes to two hours, leaving you clear, dewy and floating once they’ve finished with you.
Where: David Jones, Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, 32 Hooker Blvd, Broadbeach
Prices: A 60-minute facial starts from $350 with price tags increasing the longer and more complex you’d like to take things.
11. Vikasati
Book a private group session at Vikasati bathhouse. (Image: Studio Blackardt)
Beloved in Brisbane and now adored on the Gold Coast, Vikasati is a bathhouse that embraces its natural surroundings. Inside, you’ll find a traditional Finnish sauna and practically frozen 5-degree ice baths before you step outside to breathe in fresh air while refreshing in cold and hot magnesium pools. It’s a simple system but the benefits of contrast therapy (improved circulation, inflammation reduction and more) can transform your life.
Where: Shop 10, 15 Pinter Dr, Southport
Prices: $46 per person
12. Azure Spa & Fitness at The Star Gold Coast
An elevated coastal sanctuary awaits at Azure Spa & Fitness inside The Star’s sprawling Gold Coast residence. While the gym provides state-of-the-art fitness equipment, spa seekers can choose from a selection of treatments to alleviate tension, rejuvenate the skin and calm the mind, including the two-hour ‘Absolute Renewal Ritual’ which combines a full body aromatic massage and a radiance-focused facial.
Where: Pool Level, The Star Gold Coast, 1 Casino Dr, Broadbeach
Prices: View the spa menu
13. Soak Bathhouse
Disconnect and take a soothing dip at Soak Bathhouse. (Image: Tourism and Events Queensland)
The Gold Coast’s unstoppable bathhouse swell reaches most corners of the city and its original, Soak Bathhouse, retains its crowd-pulling power. Opened in 2020, the Gold Coast wellness star is a social experience, as locals congregate to reap the benefits of contrast therapy as they soak. Sloth between open-air hot spas, communal mineral baths, cold plunges, the steam room, and a beautiful cedar sauna.
Where: Shop 20, 2532/2540 Gold Coast Hwy, Mermaid Beach
Prices: From $39 and price tags increase depending on when you visit and if it falls within peak periods.
14. One Spa
Book a spa date for a change.
Found within one of the Gold Coast’s best resorts, One Spa inside the RACV Royal Pines Resort soothes your escape with a variety of treatments, facials and body and water therapies. There’s also a particularly lovely relaxation area overlooking the resort’s gardens, dialling up those remote island vibes one step further.
Where: RACV Royal Pines Resort, Ross St, Benowa
Prices: Download the spa menu here
15. Greenhouse The Bathhouse
A low-key space located within Tallebudgera Valley, Greenhouse The Bathhouse is another long-standing Gold Coast bathhouse offering 90-minute Soak Sessions and attracting repeat guests. With a heated mineral spa, steam room, red cedar sauna, magnesium cold plunge and a large mineral pool, it’s a relaxed space to completely unwind in. Split up your rounds with drops into the tea station and go all out with a massage upgrade.
Where: 268 Tallebudgera Creek Rd, Tallebudgera Valley
Prices: From $58 per person
16. Ciel Spa
Yet another hotel spa to add to your hit list, Ciel Spa opened its doors in the Mondrian Gold Coast in June 2025. Teaming up with skincare brands Synergie Skin, Augustinus Bader and Knesko Skin, the Gold Coast day spa offers solo and couples’ treatments, plus cosmetic and holistic therapies.
Where: Level 2, Mondrian Gold Coast, 3 First Ave, Burleigh Heads
Prices: View the treatment list
Gold Coast Hinterland
17. The Tamborine
The jewel of Mount Tamborine, The Tamborine Boutique Hotel, opened a luxurious treatment room in May 2025, completing its holistic approach to unadulterated Hinterland indulgence. Stay in a room overlooking the stay’s signature mountain views (and one heck of a cliff face) before strolling down the level 1 hallway to enter a moodily lit space facilitating enhanced serenity. Go deep tissue, hot stone or relaxation in the way of massages, while face work spans express facials, facial massage and aromatherapy.
Where: Level 1, The Tamborine, 99 Alpine Terrace, Mount Tamborine
Prices: From $125 per person
18. Lost World Spa
A scenic drive from the Gold Coast uncovers the eco-friendly Lost World Spa, a nature haven tucked within stunning Lamington National Park. Fresh mountain air and World Heritage rainforest set the scene as massages, therapeutic skin care treatments and vinotherapy, which leans into anti-ageing ingredients of grapes grown at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards, instil solid relaxation. Enjoy restorative time alone or share it with someone who’d appreciate standout Hinterland romance vibes.
Where: O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, 3582 Lamington National Park Rd, Canungra
Prices: View the spa menu
19. Gwinganna Lifestyle Resort
Unlock pure indulgence at Gwinganna Lifestyle Resort. (Image: Tourism and Events Queensland)
For the ultimate digital detox, there’s only one place to go on the Gold Coast — the award-winning Gwinganna Lifestyle Resort. Set amongst 200 hectares of forest in the Hinterland, this eco-certified retreat has the largest spa in the southern hemisphere — but you’ll need to be a guest to enjoy it. Join one of the multi-day wellness programs which combine organic living with delicious cuisine and vital wellness seminars in a dedicated low-tech environment, to unlock pure indulgence spanning massages, organic facials, acupuncture, Reiki, body treatments and more.
Where: 192 Syndicate Rd, Tallebudgera Valley
Prices: View the spa menu
20. Earth & Skin
Relish in a relaxing facial massage. (Image: Earth & Skin)
Situated in a gorgeous Queenslander building, iconic to the heritage village of Mudgeeraba, Earth & Skin is decorated with natural decor, living greenery, and soothing music to help create a relaxing atmosphere. Enjoy a full range of facials, body therapy, signature treatments, spray tans, and eyebrow and eyelash treatments, while knowing that you’re caring for our planet as all services are vegan, cruelty-free, and toxin-free.
Where: 2 Regency Pl, Mudgeeraba
Prices: View the treatment menu on the website
21. Eden Health Retreat
Escape to Eden Heath Retreat in Currumbin Valley. (Image: Tourism and Events Queensland)
For an unforgettable five-star luxury spa experience, make your way to Eden Heath Retreat, nestled in Currumbin Valley. Here you’ll have the opportunity to step into their world-class spa experience where you can lose yourself in a stunning range of powerful healing therapies and beauty treatments. Whether you’re keen to address health ailments or in desperate need of some self-love, there’s a therapeutic experience to complement everyone.
Where: 1815 Currumbin Creek Rd, Currumbin Valley
Prices: View the spa menu
22. On Eagle Wings Mountain Retreat & Spa
Treat yourself to a relaxing dip while soaking up the crisp mountain air. (Image: On Eagle Wings Mountain Retreat & Spa)
Just 15 minutes from Robina Town Centre, one of just a handful of large-scale shopping centres on the Gold Coast, Eagle Wings Mountain Retreat & Spa offers spa packages that include the use of saunas and a mineral spa, or individual treatments. No matter what you choose, you’ll get to dip into a heated 25-metre infinity lap pool while standalone treatments span facials, massages and body rituals.
Where: 59 Lowry Ct, Mudgeeraba
Prices: View the treatment menu on the website
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