That's the view of Jennifer Gorman, the international spa consultant who is renowned for producing globally award-winning spas including The K Club Ireland, Hodges Bay Antigua and Champneys London.

The lavish spa has been three years in development with over £5 million pound sterling invested in all elements, based on the highest possible specification. The final delivery is the absolute ultimate in luxury, encompassing an all round treatment offering and guest experience to rival no other on the island of Ireland.

Speaking at the official opening of Galgorm Resort and Spa, Jennifer Gorman commented: "The spa is bespoke in every detail and is very much comparable to the world's best. I am confident of it taking the market in Ireland by storm."

The bespoke Spa offers a Fitness Suite, eleven Treatment Rooms including a Serial Mud Chamber, Cleopatra Bath, Hamman Room, Relaxation Room and a Thermal Spa featuring five individual Climate Rooms, Thermal Stone Heated Relaxation Loungers, an infinity hydrotherapy pool. An outdoor hot-tub offers stunning views of the waterfall from its elevated position.

Jennifer continued: "The treatment offering at Galgorm Resort and Spa is truly unique to Europe and certainly to Northern Ireland. It will simply wow guests. The Paris Suite in particular offers the opportunity to experience a wonderful luxury spa treatment side-by-side with your partner, family member or friend. The baths are beautifully positioned underneath a wall-to-wall coral aquarium complimented by light therapy."

With an emphasis on health, lifestyle and total wellbeing, Galgorm's highly trained therapists working with luxurious Aromatherapy Associates and Ytsara products, offering a minimum of 60 sumptuous spa treatments.

The spa is opened to both hotel residents and non-residents with treatments and packages to suit all age ranges and budgets.

At a glance ...

11 Treatment Rooms
Paris Suite: designed for two people to have simultaneous treatments. This room has two treatment couches and two individual, freestanding Parisian Baths, nestled beneath a seahorse and coral aquarium
Cleopatra Bath: a huge, oversized roll bath sitting on a raised platform with dimmed lights and candles.

Hammam Room: a wet treatment room which instead of a treatment bed, has a heated, tiled plinth with a shower attachment.

Mud serrail:a two-seater cabin, which goes through a simple process of generating a warm, dry heat; a light mist; then a full shower. Spa visitors enter the cabin and apply different mud to different areas of your body, then sit back and relax.

A Relaxation Room: featuring 6 individual beds all with their own reading light and headphones. Visitors take two steps down into the relaxation room passed a trickling water feature with timber, hand blown glass walls lined with white Irish linen.

The Thermal Spa experience: including an Infinity Hydrotherapy Pool and Thermal Stone Heated Relaxation Loungers overlooking the River Maine and Galgorm Wood.

An Outdoor Hot Tub: situated meters from the water's edge, beneath a great old tree and totally open to the elements above, sure to refresh on a cold autumnal or winters day