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Lauren happy to swap Dior for Dumfries

Dumfries and Galloway Standard

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December 05, 2025

Talented Lauren Wood has come to Dumfriesswapping earning £4,000 a day looking after luxury train passengers to work at Scotland's newly crowned top spa.

Her new role as assistant spa manager at The Cairndale Hotelrecently named Scotland's Best Spa in the UK Good Spa Guide Awardsis being seen by the Wallace Family owners as "further evidence that the £2m development is attracting talented people back to Scotland's South West".

The Dumfries and Galloway College beauty therapy graduate's previous role was managing spa operations and providing treatments to high profile guests in the Dior Spa on board the Royal Scotsman's luxury Belmond train. Prices for seven days and nights on its 'Grand Tour of Scotland' service are £28,7000 each for a double room-excluding spa services.

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