USP Biggest spa on the island offers thalassotherapy and will rub you up and down in mud from the Dead Sea.

AMBIENCE A leafy concrete oasis on a rocky cove along the coast. Four vast outside pools, lawns and palm trees fringing a stony, grey beach, neat gold-and-blue sunshades, and tumbling rock gardens.

EXPERIENCE Prepare to become baked in mud, wiggled in water, slavered in gunk and crisped in salt, all while watching the sunlight dapple the bamboo shading overhead. Water-heated volcanic rocks placed beneath the back are jolly hot.

FOOD Fresh fish, Italian, even an English pub.

IN CROWD Balanced mix of both sexes.

WALLET WATCH Prices start at £1,023 for four nights, £2,175 for seven nights, based on two sharing, including accommodation, half-board, return flights, transfers, and medical consultation.

NEED TO KNOW Limassol, Cyprus (00 357 586 2000; www.lemeridien-cyprus.com)

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