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Win an Essential Spa Break at Budock Vean Hotel and Spa

The prize: An Overnight Essential Spa Break for two which includes breakfast, dinner, use of the Natural Health Spa facilities and a 60-minute spa treatment each.
Closing date: October 31, 2025
Budock Vean Hotel & Spa

Just the mere utterance of the word ‘spa’ conjures up images of relaxed watery bliss. For those in search of an aquatic antidote to stress, the superb experience at Budock Vean Hotel and Spa offers the prospect of profoundly peaceful pampering

If you love dressing up for dinner and joyful routes to bucolic wellbeing, then the 65-acre secluded Cornish estate on a quiet bend of the Helford River should be your go-to.

Autumn and winter enticements during an Overnight Essential Spa Break include an indoor swimming pool and an aspen wood Finnish sauna. Weather permitting, such restorative water-and-heat therapies are best gilded with a sesh in the outdoor hot tub. This bubbling cauldron of calm sits on a super-chic Scandinavian-style raised deck with views across the gardens.

The lovely rural surroundings also set the tone for a nature-centic, hour-long spa treatment using GAIA products. Choose from GAIA journeys (experiences that awaken, calm or balance the body and mind), facials and body treatments.

Once the power of touch and essential oils have worked their magic on skin and muscles, a sumptuous dinner completes the day of indulgence. Classic cooking is showcased in dishes such as pan-fried breast of guinea fowl followed by baked chocolate mousse.

Following a night’s tranquil slumber in a restful contemporary room, a trad brekkie awaits. Forget chia seeds or smashed avo, health and wellbeing at this hotel comes in the form of a VisitEngland Award-winning feast that includes cereals, juices, freshly baked bread and a hearty cooked breakfast of your choice.

For your chance to win an Overnight Essential Spa Break for two which includes breakfast, dinner, use of the Natural Health Spa facilities and a 60-minute spa treatment each, simply answer the question below.

The gardens and golf course at Budock Vean Hotel and Spa lead down to which Cornish river?

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Competition terms & conditions

Prize for two adults. Cannot be used 22nd Dec 2025 – 1st Feb 2026. Must be used by 22nd December 2026. Subject to availability. Cannot be used over bank holidays.

  1. This prize draw is open to residents of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland aged 18 years or over and fulfil the method of entry requirements . Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested.
  2. Details of how to enter are on www.food-mag.co.uk and form part of the terms and conditions. By entering the prize draw, you agree to these terms and conditions. Please retain a copy of these terms and conditions for your records.
  3. Entries must be submitted via www.food-mag.co.uk via twitter at www.twitter.com/food_mag and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/favouritefoodmagazine or by post to 24 Castle Street, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 1BA. For details of the prize draw, the prize and how to enter, see www.food-mag.co.uk.
  4. All entries must be received by the closing date and no entries will be accepted outside of  this time. However we may by notice on our website extend this closing date and time if we reasonably think that circumstances require this.
  5. Only one entry per person shall be accepted.
  6. Employees of the Promoter, their families and anyone professionally involved with these competitions are excluded from participating
  7. Late, illegible or incomplete entries will not be accepted. We accept no responsibility for participants being unable to connect to our website or any third party website to participate in the prize draw, or if your entry is late or lost, due to any problem, technical or otherwise connected with your email or web connection. Proof of transmission is not proof of receipt.
  8. The winner will be decided by us in accordance with the criteria set out on our website or on our Facebook page (if any) and this decision shall be final. No correspondence relating to the prize draw will be entered into.
  9. The winner will be notified within 7 days of the closing date of the prize draw via email.-
  10. The winner’s name may be published on our website after the closing date of the prize draw.
  11. The prize is non transferable and there are no cash alternatives.
  12. Anything in respect of unclaimed prize.
  13. Events may occur that render the prize draw itself or the awarding of the prize impossible due to reasons beyond our reasonable control and accordingly we may at our absolute discretion vary or amend the prize draw and the entrant agrees that we shall have no liability as a result thereof.
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  17. Entry to the prize draw is free and no purchase is necessary.
  18. These terms and conditions are governed by English law.
  19. The promoter of this prize draw is Salt Media Ltd.
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