Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som, Qatar
Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som, a groundbreaking destination in Qatar, uniquely combines traditional Arabic and Islamic medicine with a holistic health and well-being philosophy. Established by the globally recognized Chiva-Som of Thailand, Zulal invites guests to its peaceful coastal location on Qatar’s northern peninsula, a serene escape near Doha. Our resort in Qatar features two interconnected offerings: Zulal Serenity, for adults seeking deep health and lifestyle renewal, and Zulal Discovery, for families to connect through shared wellness experiences, all with the goal of fostering sustainable positive lifestyle changes.
TRADITIONAL ARABIC & ISLAMIC MEDICINE (TAIM)
“Zulal Wellness Resort in Qatar is a pioneering global destination that brings the profound benefits of Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine (TAIM) into the modern era. Inspired by Ibn Sina’s influential Canon of Medicine, established in 1025, TAIM uniquely identifies individual ‘humour’ types as key to understanding health. Our skilled professionals in Qatar apply evidence-based TAIM principles – through personalized nutrition, natural herbal solutions, and mindful lifestyle practices – to invigorate your body’s and spirit’s natural ability to heal and thrive.”
Zulal Serenity
Exclusively reserved for guests aged 16 and above, the tranquil and secluded spaces of Zulal Serenity, are thoughtfully designed to encourage a personal journey of rejuvenation and introspection amidst nature’s serenity. At Zulal Serenity in Qatar, you can fully dedicate yourself to your well-being and cultivate enduring positive lifestyle shifts.
Zulal Discovery
Zulal Discovery, the welcoming family-focused experience within our Qatar resort, provides a wealth of programmes, engaging activities, and dedicated facilities that bring families together in the joyful exploration of healthy living. Our thoughtfully designed retreat programmes also recognize and cater to the individual well-being needs of each family member, regardless of age.
Retreats in Qatar Resort
*Zulal Serenity wellness is for adult only and Zulal Discovery is for family.
Taste of Zulal is the perfect start to your wellness journey. Experience our core pillars: Nutrition, Spa, Fitness, Holistic Health, Physiotherapy, and Aesthetics, and take the first step toward a balanced, renewed you.
The Burnout Recovery Retreat is a restorative escape designed to help you regain balance and renew your energy. Through a holistic approach, it supports meaningful shifts in mindset, daily habits, and a deeper connection to your inner purpose.
The Restore Rehab retreat combines science-backed therapies and personalized care to manage chronic pain and improve mobility, offering a focused path to recovery and enhanced physical function.
Boost your performance with the Active Fit Retreat, featuring advanced training, personalized coaching, and wellness meals to improve strength, endurance, and flexibility.
The Sustainable Weight Loss Retreat is tailored to help you achieve lasting results. Along with weight loss, it provides valuable insights for maintaining a healthier, sustainable lifestyle long after your stay.
Revitalize with the Cleanse and Revive Retreat, designed to support your natural detox. Enjoy nourishing meals, cleansing therapies, and mindfulness practices, leaving you feeling refreshed, renewed, and re-energized.
Taste of Zulal is the perfect introduction to wellness. Ideal for beginners, this retreat offers a taste of our six core pillars: Nutrition, Spa, Fitness, Holistic Health, Physiotherapy, and Aesthetics. Start your journey to balance and renewal.
The Burnout Recovery Retreat provides a peaceful sanctuary to restore vitality and balance. Designed for holistic transformation, it promotes a shift in mindset, habits, and a deeper connection to your purpose.
The Restore Rehab Retreat uses a science-based approach to relieve chronic pain and improve mobility. With expert therapies, exercises, and personalized care, it offers a results-driven path to recovery.
Boost your fitness with the Active Fit Retreat, combining advanced techniques and personalized support to enhance strength, endurance, and flexibility.
The Sustainable Weight Loss Retreat is tailored to help you lose weight while providing the knowledge to maintain a healthier lifestyle long after your stay.
Refresh with the Cleanse and Revive Retreat, supporting your detox with wellness meals, cleansing treatments, and mindfulness for a lighter, clearer, and more energized you.
The Explore Retreat is perfect for wellness beginners. Enjoy a daily treatment, unlimited activities, and Hydrothermal access during your one-night stay. Relax and start your wellness journey.
Family Wellness at Zulal Discovery
At our Qatar resort, we passionately believe that supportive and fulfilling relationships within a family foster the personal development of each individual and the family unit as a whole. These positive connections extend beyond the family, benefiting the wider community. This is why our unique concept of Family Wellness is central to our wellness philosophy at Zulal. Our approach focuses on the holistic development of young people and the joy of family connection. Following a family consultation, your time is divided between activities and treatments tailored for each member—ensuring ‘me-time’ for everyone, alongside memorable moments spent together learning, laughing, and being active. Our programmes are designed to benefit all ages, promoting engagement and enjoyment for families staying at our resorts in Qatar.
LEARN MOREOur Wellness Pillars
Your Programme is highly personalised crafted from our holistic approach
Spa
Body treatments and hydrotherapy to relieve physical stress, relax the mind and soothe the soul.
Physiotherapy
Physical therapies, rehabilitation and targeted recovery programmes to improve body function, balance and mobility.
Holistic Health
Diagnostic therapies that assess health states and energy therapies to help heal chronic and acute conditions
Nutrition
Wellness cuisine focussed on organic, whole foods in beautifully presented dishes, full of flavour.
Fitness
Personal training, the latest gym equipment, indoor and outdoor facilities and classes for targeted exercise.
Aesthetic Beauty
Innovative, FDA-approved technologies for non-invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic procedures.
Genomics Testing
Genomic testing at our Qatar resorts provides unprecedented intelligence on your genetic code, revealing how your unique makeup interacts with lifestyle, environmental factors, and nutritional habits. This personalised information empowers you to make tailored choices that can dramatically enhance your health and wellbeing.
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Our Wellness Approach
Zulal serenity wellness is for adult only and Zulal discovery is for family.
Retreat and Reconnect
All of our Serenity Retreats help you shape a healthier, happier lifestyle. Whatever your goals, from relaxing to managing your weight, our Health Advisors guide you through your retreat, treatments, activities, mindset and nutritional approaches. Everything you choose can be modified as you go along so that your wellness journey is as gentle or rigorous as you want it to be.
Treatments
Wherever you are and wherever you want to be, we have more than 200 treatments to support your holistic wellbeing from a physical issue to de-stressing, better sleep and spiritual rejuvenation. You chose treatments from our extensive menu that includes Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine (TAIM) protocols, innovative technologies, nutritional consultations, sessions in the gym and energy therapies that calm your nervous system. We help guide your choices to suit your goals.
Activities
Enjoy our complimentary group activities that run from 7 AM to 8 PM. The daily timetable includes a variety of physical activities, both indoor classes and outdoor adventures that bring you close to nature. We also have talks, walks, craft and cooking classes, where you’ll get inspiration for your at-home menu. All activities are optional, you chose what you’d like to do.
Health Practitioners
Our Health Practitioners are the minds, hearts and hands that transform lives. We’re proud of the spectrum of expertise of our practitioners, from Unani doctors, expert in TAIM, to Naturopathic and Ayurveda practitioners, fitness experts, acupuncturists and specialists in many holistic and energy therapies. They join us from all over the world alongside our Visiting Consultants who share their specialisms with guests during specific calendar dates.
Wellness Cuisines
We passionately believe that eating well is the cornerstone of a long and happy life. We create gastronomical experiences where flavour and fresh produce marry nutritional healing and respect for Islamic superfoods such as olives, figs, honey and camel milk. At Serenity you enjoy exclusive all-day dining at Al Sidr and our tranquil Tea House. You’re also welcome at all dining outlets within the resort.
Retreats and Reconnect
Our unique two or five-day Discovery retreats are designed around every family member, focusing on experiences that bring you together to share, create and learn: a bonding connection to take back into your daily life. All retreats stress the importance of healthy eating from a young age. They blend experiences in Oasis of Discovery, our Family Wellness centre, plus joint and separate adult and child treatments and activities, so each family member has ‘me-time’. Retreats start with a Family Consultation to make schedules to suit everyone.
Treatments
We offer adult or child-focused versions for many of our treatments, such as stress-relieving Reiki, Cranial Sacral work, meditation styles and facials. You can enjoy others together, such as our mother-daughter beauty treatments. We have more than 200 treatments ranging from TAIM mind-body and herbal-based therapies, as well innovative technologies and holistic approaches to release tension, re-energise and re-balance for all the family.
Activities
Activities are divided into those that foster family connection in sports, creativity and nutrition and those that are age appropriate for each family member. Activities are both active and introspective and subtly encourage personal awareness. For example, Discovery Oasis, our Family Wellness centre, is themed round desert animals, such as the smart fox and far-seeing falcon, as metaphors for life-building skills.
Health Practitioners
Our Health Practitioners are the minds, hearts and hands that transform lives. Our family and child specialists bring experience in psychology, education, counselling and research. We also have medical doctors and practitioners in TAIM, Naturopathic Medicine, many holistic therapies and fitness experts. They join us from all over the world together with our Visiting Consultants who come during specific calendar dates.
Wellness Cuisines
The Zulal dining experience defines what it means to eat well for all ages, Our chefs blend taste with nutritional value to boost energy and cater for all dietary requirements, including some Islamic culinary superfoods. Whether you opt to eat at our fine-dining restaurant, Acacia, family restaurant, Aizoon, our lagoon-side café or beach club, you can choose Arabic, Mediterranean or international cuisine.
Luxury Accommodation
*Zulal Serenity wellness is for adult only and Zulal Discovery is for families.
Qataf Suite
Our exclusive Qataf Suite with three bedrooms is a home-away-from-home residence with living and dining area and double doors opening onto your own private garden with beach access, an infinity pool, plunge pool and a wide view of the ocean from your expansive terrace, perfectly majestic sunset views, with a hydrotherapy suite, shower and sauna.
Shinan Suite
This very secluded Shinan Suite has two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and separate dressing areas. The living and dining areas are decorated with cream textures and clean lines for added tranquility. This suite also offers its own sauna and swimming pool under a verandah, hidden from view.
Serenity One Bedroom Suite
These are our most spacious suites, ideal for two people, with separate bathroom and dressing area and own living and dining space decorated in natural textures and clean lines. The wide terrace is kept private from view thanks to the resort’s soft landscaping.
Serenity Junior Suite
We have 11 junior suites with terraces and private plunge pools and views through the trees over the Arabian Gulf. Each suite has a comfortable living area with sofa and table for in-room dining, separate dressing area and walk-in wardrobe. The palette of soft, muted shades adds to the cool airy atmosphere.
Serenity Grand Deluxe Room
These very spacious rooms open out onto a private terrace with your own plunge pool. They all look over the lagoon and are situated in a tranquil area away from the main hub of the resort. The decor is calm, clean, and contemporary with artistic motifs that nod to our Arabian culture.
Serenity Superior Suite
Serenity Superior Suite offer just the right balance of space and simplicity making them tranquil and airy spaces to relax in. A sophisticated colour palette runs through the bedroom, reclining area and ensuite bathroom, and dressing room. These suits enjoy private balconies.
Serenity Superior Deluxe Room – Twin Bed
These centrally located rooms overlook the resort’s lagoon. They’re close to the wellness centre and restaurants. Similar to our Deluxe Rooms, with twin beds, these rooms are ideal for adults.
Serenity Superior Deluxe Room – King Bed
These centrally located rooms overlook the resort’s lagoon. They’re close to the wellness centre and restaurants. Similar to our Deluxe Rooms, with either a king, these rooms are ideal for adults.
Discovery One Bedroom Suite
These are our most spacious suites, ideal for two people, with separate bathroom and dressing area and own living and dining space decorated in natural textures and clean lines. The wide terrace is kept private from view thanks to the resort’s soft landscaping.
Discovery Junior Suite
Discovery Junior Suites offer just the right balance of space and simplicity making them tranquil and airy spaces to relax in. A sophisticated colour palette runs through the bedroom, reclining area and ensuite bathroom, and dressing room. These suits enjoy private balconies.
Discovery Deluxe Room
These centrally-located rooms overlook the resort’s lagoon. They’re close to the wellness centre and restaurants. Similar to our Deluxe Rooms, with either a king or twin beds, these rooms are ideal for either adults or children.
Discovery Deluxe Garden View Room – King Bed
The Deluxe Garden View Rooms have the double bonus of leafy, landscaped views across the resort and the sound of the gently lapping waves of the Arabian Gulf. Enjoy both from the comfort of your king or twin beds. A small sitting area opens out onto a shady terrace.
Discovery Deluxe Garden View Room – Twin Bed
The Deluxe Garden View Rooms have the double bonus of leafy, landscaped views across the resort and the sound of the gently lapping waves of the Arabian Gulf. Enjoy both from the comfort of your king or twin beds. A small sitting area opens out onto a shady terrace.
Discovery Family Deluxe Room
This choice for families combines two our of deluxe rooms with views over the resort’s lagoon. One room offers a king sized bed while the other has two twin beds. The rooms, which each have their own outdoor space, are joined by a connecting door.
Exclusive Offers
Unveiling our special offers for a vacation in wellness at an oasis that will nourish your mind, body and spirit.
Wellness Plus – Stay 3 Pay 2
Time and health are the greatest gifts. Take the time to restore your mind, body, and spirit to optimal wellbeing.
Kids On Us
Experience more wellness for less with our generous family offer, where kids dine and stay with our compliments. Create memorable moments together as a family while enjoying a host of wellness experiences designed to create deeper bonds between parents and children.
One Day Wellness Pass
Experience a day of holistic wellness, relaxation, and rejuvenation at Zulal Wellness Resort By Chiva-Som. Indulge in world-class wellness treatments and explore our tranquil facilities, designed to restore balance and harmony.
Awards and Recognition
We’re proud to be recognised as the World’s Leading Retreat by readers of the World Travel Awards, for three consecutive years since we opened. And to be continuously nominated as the best retreat in the Middle East. It’s an honour to be internationally applauded for our dedication to improving the lifestyle of our guests.
