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This week: honeymoon retreats

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Hotels with spa and sport activities can be a match made in heaven for newlyweds.

These two tick the boxes:

Hotel Guanahani & Spa, St Barts

An enchanting hotel in the Caribbean, renowned for its brightly coloured guest cottages. It is as well-suited to active people as those who want to relax: activities include water-skiing, tennis and sailing. The spa All the basic treatments are offered alongside an excellent massage menu.

The Guanahani spa is famous for its 'world massages’ – a selection of treatments from different parts of the globe including abyanga (an ayurvedic massage with hot oil) and invigorating hot stone treatments. You can also have shiatsu and reflexology.

Clarins is the main brand and therapists offer all the best treatments, including the Pro-Active body and face therapies. Book The Romance Offer: seven nights with return flights and car hire from £2,340pp (0161-491 7620; carrier.co.uk).

Le Meridien Bora Bora Resort, Tahiti

On the island of love, this hotel – built right on the southern tip of a small island and with its air-conditioned rooms on stilts in the sea – offers active guests outrigger canoes, picnics, shark-feeding and helicopter tours.

The spa Located in a Tahitian-style bungalow, this is a wellness spa that specialises in exotic fragrance-based treatments using Polynesian oils. The Tropical Adventure involves being massaged with coconut, coffee or lagoon sand and oil, followed by a facial of skin-softening fruits.

The therapists excel at natural cooling body wraps of cucumber, aloe vera, tea tree and lavender – heaven after a day in the sun. Book The Exotic Honeymoon: seven days with return flights from £3,750pp in a double room (tahitihoneymoons.com).

Source Telegraph.co.uk