The Cotton House Spa is delighted to announce the launch of a new partnership with the award winning organic spa range ila, chosen to showcase Mustique at its blissful healing best. The bespoke range of treatments, rituals and soul connections, – many designed exclusively for us – take inspiration from the island’s most potent natural wonders; the life giving Moringa and Baobab trees; regenerative ylgang ylgang; sweet, revitalising jasmine, and seductive balancing frangipani.

The Spa has four treatment rooms and a relaxation room with stunning sea views offering the perfect place to unwind after an indulgent and restorative treatment. Alternatively treatments can be enjoyed in the privacy of your own room or villa by arrangement.

Use of the hotel gym, equipped with a multi-gym, treadmills, stationary bikes, a, star stepper, and free weights is complimentary to all hotel guests.

As legends go the The Aristocrat, the Princess and the Rockstar is pretty good, only this wasn’t a legend, it was true.

Over fifty years ago Lord Glenconner, Colin Tennant, arrived on Mustique and bought the undeveloped island for just £45,000. There were no roads, no jetties and no running water. Lord Glenconner’s initial ambitions were to see his new estate thrive as a cotton plantation, however his plans were not successful and he looked for other ways to develop the island.

Having given his good friend Princess Margaret a plot in 1960 as a wedding present, there was considerable media interest in Mustique as a destination and in 1968 he formed the Mustique Company to develop a private island hideaway