Who doesn't love a good hotel getaway? Even if it's just a spa trip to escape the city blues. But with Sanctum Soho panned by the New York Times for 'looking cheap' and The Savoy's refurb taking its time (is the facelift being powered by the hotel's leftover food fuel concept?), we need new home-from-home options.

So we're joining the Spears camp and heading to The Dorchester. With her Circus Tour hitting the UK next month, Britters has provided the hotel with a rider including freshly cut flowers (which she will arrange herself, natch) and 'topical chick lit novels' in a room that has never been smoked in.

Luckily for us, comfort comes in the form of the spa's £3.2 million refurbishment which opens for business today. A 1930s style boudoir with 9 treatment rooms, a relaxation room and a 'Spatisserie', set around a chandelier comprising 75,000 South Pacific white pearls, the spa promises exclusive treatments from facialist-to-the-stars Vaishaly, Carol Joy London's precious metal ingredients, and Kerstin Florian's traditional healing.