Renowned spa and wellness expert Lisa Barden has been appointed Group Director of Spa & Wellness for Arora Group’s growing portfolio of hotel spas, with a remit that includes leading the spa project for the group’s new luxury hotel in Windsor.
Lisa is currently Chair of the UK Spa Association (UKSA), a World Spa and Wellness Awards judge, and has over 20 years’ experience working in various developmental positions with some of the industry’s biggest spa brands and resorts, including Wentworth Club and Spa, Grayshott Spa in Surrey, Champneys and ESPA. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher Practitioner and a Holistic Beauty Therapist.
Lisa’s first major project in her new position will be to guide the vision for the new state-of-the-art, 2,100msq luxury spa, wellness and aesthetics space due to open in Arora Group’s new Luxury Country Hotel in Windsor.
Lisa commented: “I am delighted to be taking on the role of Group Director of Spa & Wellness for Arora Group. The spa and wellness offer at the new luxury Windsor hotel will be game changing. Our objective is to create a space which allows for the delivery of unparalleled levels of service through the creation of transformational experiences for our guests and visitors, whilst ensuring our teams are as happy and healthy as we can.”
The spa, wellness and aesthetics space will include 18 treatments rooms, a traditional Moroccan Hammam, a Himalayan salt room, a cryotherapy chamber, outdoor courtyard hydrotherapy and fire pit, plus a VIP spa suite with Rasul mud chamber, hot tub, private changing room and dining area.
It also features a spin studio, hot and aerial yoga suite, a state-of-the-art gym, a 15-metre lap pool, jacuzzi, thermal suite, sauna, steam and ice showers. The space will also house five aesthetics rooms, a GP clinic, a beauty, hairdressing and barbering suite, a nail salon, yoga and dance studios, and a wellness café.
Vincent Madden, Director of Hotel Operations, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Lisa to the Arora team. Lisa is a consummate professional with an impressive track record and a passionate advocate of the benefits of spa attendance and therapies. She is the perfect person to lead the ambitious spa project at our new luxury Windsor hotel, ensuring that it delivers exceptional guest experiences every time.”
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Notes to Editors
Arora Group
The Arora Group is a successful UK-focused private group of companies, which leverages synergies across its specialist property, construction and hotel divisions to its strategic advantage. Since 1999, the Group has built its standing through meticulously managing projects from inception to delivery and beyond. Today, it owns and manages a diverse portfolio of flagship assets across the nation’s key business locations, partnering with some of the world’s most recognised brands to deliver consistently high service levels and sustainable growth.
For more information please visit www.thearoragroup.com or @Arora_Group
Heathrow Expansion
The Arora Group announced its intention to bid for the right to undertake development of Heathrow expansion in summer 2017. Since that time, the group has produced its terminal design and layout plans which were unveiled in May 2018. Heathrow is currently under the monopoly control of HAL which has to date assumed the sole right to undertake Heathrow expansion. The Arora plans have been carefully developed in close consultation with the major airlines operating at Heathrow to ensure the plans are optimised for their operations, efficient, cost effective and improve the ease of travel and experience for passengers.
For more information please visit heathrow.thearoragroup.com
Arora Hotels
Arora Hotels, a division of the Arora Group, is one of the UK’s leading hotel owner-operators with expertise in airport and city centre hotel operations. Current hotels within the portfolio include Sofitel London Heathrow, Sofitel London Gatwick and Novotel London Stansted (under a franchise agreement with Accor), Renaissance London Heathrow (under a franchise agreement with Marriott), InterContinental® London ‒ The O2, Holiday Inn Heathrow Terminal 5,Crowne Plaza London Heathrow Terminal 4, Holiday Inn Express® London Heathrow Terminal 4 (under a franchise agreement with IHG), Hilton London Gatwick (under a franchise agreement with Hilton Hotel and Resorts), and Arora Hotel Gatwick/Crawley. Two additional hotels currently under development are Hilton Garden Inn at Heathrow as well as a luxury country house hotel in Windsor. For more information please visit thearoragroup.com/business/hotels or @AroraHotels
