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Solstice House
[01]  What's on

Six things worth planning your days around

Everything below is open to residents. Most of it costs nothing; the rest is priced at what it costs us to run.

01

The Bath House

Two thermal pools at 38°C, an 11°C plunge and a cedar steam room, all fed by the spring beneath the ridge.

06:00 – 22:00 · Included

02

Ridge Kitchen

Thirty covers and a single menu that changes with what came up the hill that morning. Supper is four courses, no choices, no fuss.

18:30 – 21:30 · $95

03

Dawn Walks

Leaves the gate at 06:15 with a guide who knows which ridge holds the light first. Ninety minutes, coffee at the turnaround.

Daily · Included

04

Treatment Rooms

Four rooms above the pools. Deep tissue, hot stone, and the two-hour ridge ritual using oils pressed in the valley below.

09:00 – 19:00 · From $120

05

Cellar Tastings

Thursdays at five in the vault. Sixteen seats, six pours, and whatever the cellar master feels like arguing about.

Thursdays 17:00 · Included

06

The Long Table

A private room for twelve to twenty-four with its own terrace, fire and service. Board days, birthdays, quiet wakes.

By arrangement · From $1,400

Thermal pool at first light
[02]  Water

Ninety minutes, three temperatures

The circuit our therapists recommend: twenty minutes hot, one minute cold, ten minutes flat on your back under the fig tree. Repeat three times. Then do nothing at all for an hour.

  • Two thermal pools, 38°C
  • Cold plunge at 11°C
  • Cedar steam room
  • Quiet room, no phones
  • Robes and towels laid out
  • Residents only before 09:00
[03]  Food

One menu, written the same morning

There is no printed carte. At about eleven each day the kitchen decides what supper is, based on the market run and what the garden can spare, and writes it on the board by the door.

Tell us at check-in what you don't eat and it simply won't appear. Vegetarian and vegan menus run in full parallel, not as an afterthought.

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Ridge Kitchen dining room
A plated course
Vegetables from the garden
[04]  Walks

Fourteen routes, all from the gate

Read the route notes
01

The Fig Loop

40 minutes · Easy · Step-free

Around the orchard and back along the irrigation channel. Good before breakfast.

1.9 km
02

Dawn Ridge

90 minutes · Moderate · Guided daily

Up the shoulder to the first light, coffee at the cairn, down the shaded side.

5.2 km
03

Water Line

2 hours · Moderate · Self-guided

Follows the old spring pipe to the head of the canyon and the abandoned pump house.

7.6 km
04

The Traverse

5 hours · Hard · Guide recommended

The full escarpment, west to east. We pack lunch and collect you from the far end.

18 km
Build your days

Book the room. We'll help with the rest.

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