Overview

Queen of Retreats was started as a blog in 2011 by leading retreat journalist and author Caroline Sylger Jones – a year after the birth of her daughter, and following the publication of her acclaimed healthy travel books Body & Soul Escapes and Body & Soul Escapes: Britain & Ireland (Footprint Books). Caroline had been called ‘Queen of Retreats’ in a tongue-in-cheek interview about her books, so she started her blog using the name as a light-hearted way to share her honest, personal stories from the retreats she had researched over the previous 10 years – and as a diversion between the pleasures of motherhood. Quite quickly realising such pleasures were somewhat all-consuming, Caroline invited other trusted writerly friends to share their retreat stories too, and so the site grew to become what it is today – a curated collection of global retreats that have been reviewed honestly, in depth and with care by a trusted team. Today ‘Queen’ refers to the strong, majestic energy behind our collection and our brand, our trusted team, and every writer and retreat involved. And our honest, trusted ethics remain the same. Queen of Retreats is not a listings site that you can just pay to be on – we only work with the retreats we rate after checking them out with care, so that your choice of where and how to retreat is an easier one to make. We believe retreating should be available and accessible to all – whether you need to laugh or cry, grieve or scream, rest deeply or energise, heal or hula, learn to paint or finish your novel, go wild swimming or detox everything, change the direction of your life, career or relationship or just simply chill. Browse by experience or destination or search for something more specific, then contact the retreats directly from our site by filling in our enquiry forms or just clicking directly to their site from ours. Happy Retreating! Love The Queen of Retreats Team.