Body Sanctum Day Spa is a day spa in central Queenstown, located on Level 1, 10 Athol Street — a short walk from the town's main hotels, restaurants and waterfront. Established in 1999, it describes itself as Queenstown's original day spa, and it rebranded and refurbished its premises in 2025.
### Treatments and facilities
The spa's menu covers four main areas: massage, spa packages, facials and beauty therapy. Massage options run from relaxation and deep tissue through to remedial massage and bodywork, with specialities including hot stone, Indian head massage, reflexology, lymphatic drainage and pregnancy massage. Couples and side-by-side treatments are a feature — the premises has three couples treatment rooms. Spa packages combine massage with facials and body treatments across durations from around one hour to three hours, and there is a facial range spanning relaxation treatments through to LED light therapy and cosmedical peels.
Product lines are Pacific and New Zealand focused, including Pure Fiji, Pure Source Rotorua geothermal mud, New Zealand Glacial Clay and the cosmedical skincare range O Cosmedics. The business also operates a sister site, The Beauty Lounge in Frankton, for more advanced skin, IPL and beauty treatments. Booking is handled online through Kitomba, and gift vouchers are available.
### Awards
Body Sanctum has a substantial awards record: New Zealand's Best Day Spa at the World Spa Awards 2025, Best City Spa in New Zealand at the 2022 Haute Grandeur Global Spa Awards, Best Massage Provider New Zealand in the 2020 APAC Business Awards, and Best Luxury Urban Escape, Australasia at the 2019 World Luxury Spa Awards.
### Relevance to business events
The spa's own material points to group use for occasions such as weekends away and wedding preparation for up to 12 guests, which gives a useful indication of its capacity for small group bookings. Its central location makes it easy to slot into a conference or incentive programme as a free-time or wellness option without transport logistics, and it publishes combination offerings pairing spa treatments with a wine tour or indoor golf. Larger group arrangements would need to be confirmed directly with the spa.
It suits incentive guests, delegate partners and small executive groups looking for a wellness inclusion within walking distance of central Queenstown accommodation.
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