A Spa Day at Bannatyne Mansfield: The Slowest Way to Fill a Day From the Cabins

Bannatyne Health Club & Spa on Briar Lane is 9 miles from the farm, around 15 minutes' drive, and it's the recommendation we make most often to guests whose main plan for the weekend is to do as little as possible. A genuinely low-effort way to fill the middle of a day without the drive, the walking boots, or the packed rucksack.

What to Expect

The treatment list is what you'd expect massages and facials, manicures and pedicures, plus the usual add-ons like brow work and waxing. There's a single treatment room and a dual treatment room, so couples or two friends can book side-by-side rather than being split up.

Alongside the treatments there's a swimming pool, spa pool, sauna, steam room, and a relaxation area — and a café bar for lunch or a drink between treatments. So you can turn it into a proper day out rather than a one-hour appointment.

Bookings are made ahead through the Bannatyne website, and it's a health club as well as a spa, so weekends fill quicker than midweek.

The reason it pairs well with an Inkersall stay is simple: this is one of the few days out where the whole point is the pace. A cycling weekend at Sherwood Pines earns the quiet evening at the cabin by tiring you out first. A spa day is the same quiet applied to the whole day — you go from the relaxation room straight to the cabin without a jolt of activity in between.

Nearby Continuation

If you'd rather not go straight back after the spa, Rufford Abbey Country Park is under 2 miles from the farm — around 5 minutes — and the flat, well-surfaced paths around the ruins and lake are the right kind of easy walk to end the day on. It's a short enough loop that stiff shoulders and post-massage inertia aren't an issue. Deer are commonly seen on the open ground around Sherwood Pines and the Rufford estate too, particularly in the last hour of daylight, so the drive between the two is worth doing with an eye on the trees.

Where We Usually Stop After

Our usual recommendation after a spa day in Mansfield is The Lion at Farnsfield — it sits on the road between Mansfield and the farm, so it's genuinely on the way home rather than a detour, and the food's the kind of proper cooked plate that suits a late-afternoon appetite after a day of grazing at the spa café.

Opening times, prices, and treatment availability change — check the Bannatyne website directly before booking.