A remote luxury spa at Deplar Farm in northern Iceland, with geothermal pools, flotation tanks and treatments under the Northern Lights.

Do not be misled by the quaint-sounding name. Deplar Farm Spa, set deep in the Troll Peninsula of northern Iceland, is the most luxurious spa hotel experience the country has to offer, and it makes no effort to be modest about it.

You can, if you wish, arrive by helicopter; there are two helipads to make the point. From there, the spa opens out in a sequence of considered indulgences. The indoor-outdoor pool comes complete with a swimmable bar, the better to collect a glass of champagne mid-session without ever leaving the water. When the heat becomes too much, a cold plunge pool waits to reset you entirely.

Three treatment rooms and two Isopod flotation tanks mean every whim is accounted for, the menu running from deep tissue work to the particular weightless stillness of a float. It is wellness staged at full luxury, with nothing left to chance.

And then there is the part no spa can promise but this one occasionally delivers: it all unfolds under the Aurora Borealis. Catch the night sky on a clear evening and the green light overhead becomes the treatment: the kind of sight that recalibrates what a spa visit can be.

Run by Eleven Experience, Deplar Farm pairs genuine remoteness with genuine polish, a rare combination in a landscape this wild.

For travellers who want Iceland’s drama without surrendering an ounce of comfort, this is the bolt-hole: quiet, expert, and quietly extraordinary.