Alpamare Scarborough, a new £14m (US$18m, €16.6m) Alpine-themed attraction in Yorkshire, England, will open a European-style wellness spa in January 2017.

Located on the second floor of the water attraction, the spa will extend across 900sq m (9,688sq ft) and will include a viewing terrace looking out over the sea.

The spa will include a hammam as well as a classical Alpine spa with stone and aromatic wood settings.

The Alpine spa will feature sauna rituals and special events every hour, including storytelling, music or sauna infusions scented with honey, fruits, salt or ice-mint. It will include a salt sauna, pine sauna, clay sauna, ice fountain and aromatic showers with chromo-aromatherapy.

The hammam will feature a Sogukluk steam bath, Binguil purifying Turkish bath with 100 per cent humidity, rhassoul with therapeutic muds, Sicalick pool with hot water and underwater music and hammam treatments such as soap massage.

Spa treatments will include evening packages designed for post-work relaxation, foam peeling massages and radiofrequency treatments.

Alpamare Scarborough, which opened in July, is the Swiss-based company’s first location in the UK; it expects to attract up to half-a-million visitors annually to the new waterpark, which will feature four rides, with its lazy river, two-person tubes, racing mats and body slide.

Additionally, the park features an outdoor garden pool and an infinity pool with massage jets, whirlpools and bubble benches.

Located in Scarborough’s North Bay, known as The Sands, the park forms part of a wider redevelopment of the area being undertaken by developer Benchmark Properties. The council has provided a loan facility worth £9m (US$15.3m, €11m) to fund the development.

“Yorkshire is a truly amazing county and we’re confident that we are delivering a truly amazing, all year round attraction for the county and the UK to be proud of,” said Alpamare CEO, Dr Anton Hoefter.