Tamborine Mountain’s Original Day Spa
An Immersive Spa & Wellness Experience Offering a Full Range of Luxurious Treatments
Where the Mountain Meets Mist
Where the mountain meets the mist, the world quiets. The air softens. The treatment, when it begins, is only the centre of something the mountain started for you the moment you arrived.
Tamborine Mountain's Original Day Spa — Established 2000
Set high on the plateau of Tamborine Mountain, Getaway Day Spa unfolds across five private acres of soft mountain lawns and quiet country air. Our sanctuary has been thoughtfully shaped over more than two decades, designed for deep, lasting restoration.
Here, the setting becomes part of the Ritual. Walk barefoot across our soft green grass — an unhurried moment of earthing to settle before your treatment begins. Stroll the driveway flanked by soaring pencil pines, pause beneath the broad spreading arms of liquid amber trees that blush gold and crimson with the seasons, visit our resident family of goats grazing the property, then carry that calm into the Spa.
The bustle of the coast below falls away. What remains is space — to breathe, to soften, to return to yourself.
OUR TEAM AT GETAWAY DAY SPA
Bettina & Emma Valentine
A Mother, A Daughter, A Spa.
Bettina Valentine arrived on Tamborine Mountain from Sydney in 1994 — a hang glider pilot, drawn to the plateau by the air, the lift, and the long views to the coast.
She fell in love with the mountain, stayed, raised her family here, and built Getaway from the ground up. Her daughter, Emma, has been here from the beginning — watching her mother grow the business from a little girl, finding her place at the Spa at fourteen with a clientele of her own, and growing into it with the kind of inheritance you cannot teach. The Spa is still very much theirs today — quietly refined over more than two decades by the woman who founded it, and shaped, day by day, by the daughter who grew up inside it.
Today, Getaway is evolving — into accommodation, into retreat, into sanctuary. A place where Spa and wellness aren't an afternoon but an immersion. Time, slowed deliberately. The mountain held closer.
Emma carries the business forward — developing, evolving, and stewarding the Spa into the years ahead. Her legacy is here. She is the next chapter.
When she's not at Getaway, you'll find Bettina paragliding over the Scenic Rim — sometimes directly over the Spa. The lift she first came chasing, still pulling her up.
Fiona Ocean — Wellness and Skin Care Professional
For Fiona, wellness and skin care are not a profession but a refined way of being — the art of living, the practice of living well every day. There is no separation between her life at home and her life at the Spa. The same care she keeps for herself is what she brings to every treatment, and what she shares with every guest. At Getaway Day Spa, guests don't book a service — they enter a practice she already lives.
A treatment is, in her hands, an entry point. For guests staying with us in our Getaway Accommodation, Fiona offers a bespoke consultation — covering skin, wellness, detox, and the small daily rituals that elevate how a body feels. A treatment with her can be the whole experience, or one part of a longer conversation. The choice is the guest's.
Fiona has been a Waterlily Spa Professional for twelve years — trained directly by Founder and Formulator Michelle Reeve, and the practitioner who brought the collection to Getaway Day Spa. The Waterlily formulations are integral to her work: at the heart of every treatment, and continued at home in the products she shares with her guests.
When she's not at the table, Fiona is often paragliding with Bettina or out motorcycling through the hinterland. The same stillness, the same energy, in motion.
Zoë Fisher — Massage and Holistic Therapist
Zoë is deeply devoted to guiding her clients back to their truest essence — back into the body, with a quieter mind and a renewed sense of peace.
Her work is the art of ritual. The treatment becomes a space to rest, unwind, and let go — where the mind declutters and the body remembers itself.
A background in aromatherapy, astrology, and Pilates threads through everything she offers. Each treatment is shaped by these practices, woven into the work she does on the table, leaving you feeling grounded, centred, and nurtured.
Ben — Massage Therapist
Ben brings four years of Massage experience to the table — and a deep familiarity with Tamborine Mountain, where he has lived with his wife since 2007. Almost two decades on the mountain now woven into the work he does at the Spa.
Ben's technique is a blend. A Swedish foundation with remedial and deep tissue components layered in, pressure adapted from light to firm to meet each client where they are. The result is a Massage built around the body in front of him, not a fixed routine.
Ben came to the table by way of teaching. The intention that carried him then — to leave others better than he found them — is the same intention that brings him to a Treatment now. Healing, given simply.
Jess Marsden — Therapeutic Massage & Shiatsu Therapist
Jess brings more than twenty years of experience in Therapeutic Massage and Shiatsu to the table. Her treatments are strong, deeply nourishing, and guided by an intuition refined across two decades of practice — meeting each body where it is, working as the body asks her to.
Jess's work moves beyond the physical. The release of muscular tension is the start; the deeper work is the release of what the body has been holding emotionally, often without the guest even knowing. Her treatments leave guests feeling not only lighter, but more connected with themselves — a return to a quieter, fuller version of who they are.
Jess's qualifications run across Thai Massage, Holistic Massage, Shiatsu, and Reiki — a breadth that lets her shape each treatment to whatever the guest needs in the moment, drawing from each modality without ever forcing a fixed sequence.
Away from the table, Jess is most often on the yoga mat or in tai chi practice, out in nature with her camera, or camping somewhere quiet.
Rachelle Sangi — Massage & Spa Therapist
Rachelle has spent more than six years in the industry, several of those at Getaway Day Spa. She specialises in intuitive bodywork — tuning into what the body is asking for, adapting pressure and style as the treatment unfolds, and guiding her clients into deep, considered relaxation.
Rachelle's qualifications run wide: Swedish & Relaxation Massage, Hot Stone, Deep Tissue, Remedial, Indian Head Massage, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Body Rituals, and Facials including Microdermabrasion. Body Scrub Rituals and Facials are quiet favourites — and the versatility that comes from years on the table means each treatment is shaped to what the guest needs in the moment, not to a fixed routine.
Away from the Spa, Rachelle is most often with her family, out on a hike, or in the heat of a hot yoga class.
Amanda — Japanese Head Spa Therapist
Amanda specialises in the Japanese Head Spa — a Ritual she has come to know intimately, and one she delivers with the calm and care it asks for.
The Ritual itself is unhurried — designed to release stress, tension, and mental fatigue, and to nurture both mind and body. The therapeutic touch is soothing; the pace considered.
For Amanda, this is more than a profession. It is a way to bring comfort, healing, and moments of peace into her clients' lives, honouring the quiet beauty of self-care and holistic wellness.
Michelle Reeve, Founder and Formulator of Waterlily
Some skincare is applied. Waterlily is unfolded.
Wellness leaders in biotech beauty. Naturopathically formulated. Meticulously handcrafted in Brisbane.
Waterlily was founded by Michelle Reeve in 2004 — a passionate formulator with a clear and uncompromising ethos: to fuse slow skincare with clean and green cosmeceuticals, where ancient botanical wisdom and modern science converge through the power of touch.
What followed was a Performance Spa collection unlike any other in Australia. From the Botanical Laboratory in Brisbane, Michelle and her team handcraft each formulation around a paddock-to-plate philosophy — every ingredient deliberately chosen, every cosmeceutical clinically trialled and dispensed in active concentrations, every botanical phytonutrient included for a reason. The work is rigorous; the result is sensory.
Getaway Day Spa is a proud Waterlily Spa Partner — part of a selectively curated network of professional spas trained to deliver Waterlily's Performance Treatments and Rituals at their fullest expression. The collection runs through our treatment menu from beginning to end, in every facial Ritual and every body immersion we offer.
Wild-harvested. Cold-pressed. Handcrafted in the islands of Fiji since 1996.
Pure Fiji was founded by mother and daughter Gaëtane and Andrée Austin — a tropical skincare collection drawn from the South Pacific's most considered ingredients: virgin coconut, raw sugar, papaya, hibiscus, and oils cold-pressed in the islands themselves.
At Getaway Day Spa we proudly stock Pure Fiji's signature Coconut Milk & Honey and Coconut Lime Blossom collections. Each Pure Fiji Ritual carries an ancient Pacific wisdom of caring for the skin — restoring softness, radiance, and a quiet sense of the islands to the body.
We are delighted to introduce Three Warriors to our collection. Rooted in the pristine landscapes of Tasmania, Australia, this award-winning certified organic tanning range has earned a devoted following for its unwavering commitment to skin health and natural results. Vegan, cruelty-free, and entirely free from harsh chemicals, each formula delivers a luminous, sun-kissed glow with the sophistication your skin deserves. We are proud to now offer three of their most coveted products exclusively for our clients.
Available exclusively at Getaway Day Spa:
• Gradual Tan
• Self-Tanning Mousse
• HydraBronze Tan Drops