With the indulgences of the festive season retreating in our rear-view mirror, it’s time to get back on track with a new year that focuses on your mind, body and soul. And if you can combine wellness with a sense of escapism, all the better, right?
Perched pretty at the entrance of Boka Bay – a fjord-like idyll on Montenegro’s Adriatic Sea – One&Only Portonovi is the jewel of Europe’s most fashionable new riviera. Surrounded by sapphire waters, verdant forest and crumbling medieval towns, the hotel offers the perfect balance of peaceful landscapes, chic interiors, world-class dining and revolutionary wellness, thanks to its exclusive global partnership with Chenot.
Guests looking for a transformative escape can visit the 4,000-square-metre Chenot Espace, and indulge in one of its detoxing journeys, designed to reset the body using the renowned Chenot Method® - founded by Henri Chenot in 1970 – with its tailored one- to seven-day programs and pioneering treatments which have been scientifically designed to enhance vitality and optimum health throughout our stay and beyond.
With almost 50 years of scientific research under its belt, Chenot Method® is able to pinpoint an important array of biomarkers within the body, known as the Chenot Lifestyle Biomarkers®. These, together with lifestyle factors impacting the ageing process and your Chenot Vitality Index®, enable your treatments, diet plan and post-program lifestyle recommendations to be fully individual and personalised. The tailored treatments are thoroughly bespoke, immersive and holistic, and incorporate nutritional menus, fitness schedules, targeted spa treatments, stress relieving activities and cosmetic beautification, allowing for literal inside-out, top-to-toe TLC.
The first One&Only hotel to offer Chenot Espace, the programs start with diagnostic tests, followed by a set of tailored treatments and culinary plans curated for each individual guest. The programs are designed to work in synergy with each other to stimulate the body to eliminate toxins, increase vitality, activate energy channels and rebalance the body’s physiology. You can fully immerse yourself in a one-week wellness program, engage in a shorter experience that can be woven into your overall holiday or simply dip your toe in by selecting individual wellbeing treatments as and when you like.
At the Medical Department, you can choose from an extensive list of different medical treatments and diagnostics, from hi-tech nutritional and bio-screenings to non-invasive revolutionary health assessments and immune strengthening relaxation treatments. In the Human Performance Department, the focus is on understanding your body and its unique needs with state-of-the-art equipment and assessments to encourage personal health and vitality. There’s even a Cryotherapy experience if you’re feeling brave. And in the Hydrotherapy Department, you can detoxify, revitalise and restored your energy with Chenot Espace’s unique approach to hydrotherapy, with a hydro-therapy massage, wraps and essential oils.
The programs also include classical and modern acupuncture, courtesy of Dr. Igor Micunovic – Chenot Espace’s resident Traditional Chinese Medicine expert. Or, if you’re feeling like something altogether more relaxing, you can make use of Chenot Espace’s sauna, steam room, indoor pool and Oriental Hammam.
Naturally nutrition goes hand-in-hand with all wellbeing journeys, and as it’s a key pillar in the Chenot Method®, guests can follow the Chenot Diet at La Veranda restaurant, where reduced-calorie diet plans have been precisely formulated to support the body’s self-healing, cleanse at cellular level and facilitate metabolic balance. The Chenot Diet recipes work to activate the body’s fasting mechanisms whilst providing sufficient nourishment to the cells, whilst never compromising on taste or flavour.
The resort itself has easy to access to all regional airports – a one-hour drive from Dubrovnik, 50 minutes from Tivat and two-and-a-half hours from Podgorica – all serving a variety of airlines, and each well-equipped to handle private jets, if that’s how you prefer to arrive. And offering a 360-approach to wellness, the experiences extend far beyond the spa, to once-in-a-lifetime excursions, tennis on professional hard courts, outdoor hiking routes, sailing, TRX classes, yoga, Nordic hiking, mountain biking, and plenty more.
When it’s time to bed down, you can do so in Suite one, with its private wine vault and outdoor dining area with views of the mountains and bay; or in the 1,750-square-metre, three-bedroom Villa One, for those wanting space and ultra-exclusivity, with its own garden, private pool and hydrotherapy pool with six massage stations.
Because who said looking after your mind, body and soul can’t be five-star?