Does Lifehouse Spa & Hotel have a pool?

Yes, this property has an indoor pool.

Is Lifehouse Spa & Hotel pet-friendly?

No, only service animals are welcome at the property.

How much is parking at Lifehouse Spa & Hotel?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Lifehouse Spa & Hotel?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight. Late check-in is available during limited hours.

Does Lifehouse Spa & Hotel provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle.

Where is Lifehouse Spa & Hotel located?

Situated in a rural location, this spa hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Walton Pier, Clacton Pier, and West Cliff Theatre. Clacton-on-Sea Beach and Beth Chatto Garden are also within 9 mi (15 km). Clacton-on-Sea Thorpe Le Soken Station is 15 minutes by foot.

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Jun 15, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Lovely quiet and massive grounds covered in nature and very well kept, the accomodations were lovely and everything whilst on the higher end price wise was worth every penny. Would happily return. Some of the staff really set the hotel apart by being more accomodating than most

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Spencer

Mar 18, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Good all round

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

Andy

Jan 13, 2025

The view from my room was excellent

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

ian

Sep 24, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Great staff Very friendly Highly recommended 😀

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

KATHERINE

Mar 10, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Lovely - took my mum for her 60th and she loved it. Fantastic food, wonderful spa, already planning on returning

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Stephanie

Jun 27, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This hotel was beautiful and I couldn’t have been happier with my stay. Food, rooms, gym were all incredible.

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Margaret

Dec 8, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Overnight stay

Lovely one night stay. Unfortunately had a call 10 minutes before we arrived to say the jacuzzi had broken down & would be out of use. We had a 3 coarse meal that was absolutely amazing! Complements to the chef! Only down side - we thought drinks were over priced at £12 for a large glass of wine.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

8/10 Good

Minesh

Aug 5, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Great Getaway, however you have to checkin at 3pm, bit late as you have to pay extra to use spa facilities before then.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Mark

Jan 19, 2025

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

The spa wasn’t fully working witch should been stated dinner was undercooked and breakfast as changed we went in oct was grate will Defo not go back after the treatment we had look else were first

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Eve

Jul 28, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The staff were so friendly and helpful made my Mum feel like a Queen.. amazing massage 💆‍♀️ with Abbey and Rachel very kind so understanding with my 94 year old Mum..Would most definitely visit again the Hotel could do with more disabled paths around the building

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

deborah

Jul 30, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Didn’t like no storage in the bedroom. Only 6 hangers for two of us. Also the menu was too fancy for us so we couldn’t eat there as nothing plain for us and we would have loved to chill in the restaurant and bar area without having to drive out for dinner each evening. Staff were amazing as are the grounds.

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

May 30, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Expensive

Expensive for one night. Lovely grounds to explore if weather ok. Spa area was nice, quite busy. Nice to see staff removing towels from loungers regularly. Nice evening meal. Nice touches made for partner's birthday.

Stayed 1 night in May 2022

6/10 Okay

Vicki

Feb 8, 2023

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

All facilities were good. Would not go back though… for slice of cake £4.50!!! Everything was extremely expensive. I was very shocked at prices for everything, especially food and drinks. Outrageous!!!😡

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

D&A

Sep 13, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Great spa facilities. Quiet lication to catch up with rest and also the building was not noisy in the bed areas. Loved the policy to be able to breakfast in the hotel dressing gowns or one's sports wear.The gardens made it for us. Very botanical with lots to spot and history. Great walks just beyond the gardens if you wish to walk off the calories! Dinner menu wasn't great so we ate out each night, including one at the very good Bangladeshi/Indian restaurant in the village. Breakfast was ample with choices but created a lot of guest movement to the counter area. Providing trays may help abate this, perhaps? One downside still to be resolved is the alcohol order on our tab at checkout, that we had never ordered. Otherwise would return for the spa facilities, informality and gardens in a different season.

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Hilary

Aug 26, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

A pleasant and relaxing weekend...

My daughter and I enjoyed our spa weekend. We received a very warm welcome including a map and instructions to find our way around. The staff were very pleasant. The grounds are lovely and the ambience was relaxing with everyone walking around in their robes. Our room was spotless with a lovely big shower room and we loved the luxurious toiletries supplied, they smelt wonderful. Excellent breakfast with plenty of choice, tho' the queue was a bit slow for hot food as only one person was serving. We got up early Sunday morning for a swim, had breakfast then we had the Relaxation Room to ourselves, a complete winner. Some of the Spa area facilities were not working properly. The sauna did not get very hot, the salt room wasn't very salty and the cold plunge pool was empty Sunday morning. The Spa area is rather dull with grey walls and black loungers, some decorative changes could improve the ambience here, it doesn't scream luxury. Fortunately the weather was good so we tended to use the loungers outside. A few loungers dotted around the grounds would be nice for a bit of quiet contemplation or reading. One small off putting note, was the little signs everywhere, to 'not take hotel belongings home'! Overall we did enjoy our stay and would recommend this hotel.

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Toni

May 26, 2024

Disliked: Staff & service

Overpriced

The hotel and spa was not what I expected . In arrival I was asked to make payment when I said I have already paid … the guy at reception says “well it says here I need to take payment” I got up my online banking to prove payment had been made. This started it all off quite badly . We then made our way to our room that was very basic and there was chewing gum down the toilet and the toil base was stained. Service at the bar was terrible , we ordered drinks and was told they would brought over to us. We sat and witnessed a big group make an order and receive their drinks before ours also two other couples . I had to go to bar and point this out to get our drinks. I was told that the delay had been because they had no milk and need to get this. Yet no one thought to mention this. We went out to a local pub for dinner and had an amazing meal thankfully we did go out because the pub made my weekend. Breakfast was nice and well organised at the hotel. I have stayed and plenty better places than this for a fraction of the price and wouldn’t recommend to anyone

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Maria

Mar 5, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Staff lack training

The stay was very pleasant, the grounds were a massive highlight but there were a couple of things that were not up to standard. Firstly, every single member of staff was smiley and nice but there knowledge of the hotel was not up to standard… every single member of staff from the waiters, reception, spa therapist had poor knowledge of the hotel and it’s facilities. For example the receptionist tried to upsell an room upgrade to us but didn’t have a clue on the rooms specifications… the spa therapist hadn’t a clue on the spa operating times(although very easy to find out but nonetheless they still hadn’t a clue) and the restaurant staff were honestly very clueless. The food was just appalling- everything was served with chips or sweet potato fries- with those prices you expect something more refined and upmarket not pub food that has everything with chips. Also considering it’s a spa the food should be a little healthier. The rooms were absolutely roasting- they did provide us with a fan but it would have been better if we could open our door on a latch but the door wasn’t capable of doing so, so we were very hot and had to leave the door open in an attempt that no wildlife would enter our room. Finally- we had already prepaid for this trip and upon our check out the receptionist gave us a bill not knowing we had already paid for the trip- but this just brings me back to the first point that staff have very limited training and are very clueless.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Jul 12, 2023

Disliked: Room comfort

So So

Lifehouse Being a £190 a night hotel I expected more. It was so hot in the room. Even travelodge has aircon. Having only a small noisy fan just didn’t cut it. I didn’t sleep a wink and spent the whole night tossing and turning. The bed sheets had stains on them. The tv had no guide So you had to go through each channel and guess what was on. A fridge in the room would be nice. Again, most budget hotels have them. The aircon and the fridge issues I wish I’d have asked about previous to booking. I did just presume that a luxury spa hotel would have the basics? The bathroom wasn’t up to scratch. Firstly, If you were having a bath, the shampoo/cond/shower gel is really high up so you either have to get up or stretch to reach it. The tap panel had come loose. There was a bit of brown stuff stuck to the floor (I hope it wasn’t what i thought it was). £15 for room service! After paying almost £200 to stay in a room as hot as the sauna?? Surely not. I had planned a lovely dinner to enjoy in my room whilst watching a movie but I went without and went hungry till breakfast. I didn’t fancy the restaurant as I was staying alone. The spa facilities were ok. I really do think they could up their game a bit though. It looks like a school swimming pool area. Nothing luxury about it. Lots of tiles missing on the pool. Most loungers were reserved with towels, it was so noisy in there from groups. Relaxation room was full of people chatting away

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Sep 21, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Another fab weekend at our favourite spot!

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Francesca

Jul 17, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness

We have stayed a few times before but we felt it was a little rundown in places. Service was also a bit off

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Therese

Jul 9, 2025

Check in was ridiculous. Dining room lacked any sort of charm.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Kathryn

Jun 22, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Very nice

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Margaret

May 28, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

We had a wonderful stay. From the moment we checked in the staff were very accommodating. Our room was perfect for what we needed. We enjoyed a couples massage at the spa which was superb. We then relaxed with room service. A wonderful stay and will definitely return.

Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Apr 1, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

great place

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Feb 24, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Total bliss

Stayed here many times and absolutely loved it every single time. One of my fave places ever.

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

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