Best Spa Hotels in North Side

One Real Spa, Six Hot Tubs

Lincolnshire Marriott Resort rates 8.8 and stands alone on this list with a genuine spa alongside its golf course, four dining options and pools, built for a multi-night resort-style stay rather than a quick business trip. Eight taxi-minutes from Par-King Skill Golf and a five-minute walk from Three Embers Restaurant round out a property where the spa is one part of a fuller leisure package rather than a bolted-on amenity, worth the twenty-five-minute O'Hare taxi run for anyone prioritizing this kind of trip over a shorter, more efficient airport connection elsewhere on the corridor.

Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago North Shore Deerfield backs its 8.4 rating with a hot tub and indoor pool alongside free breakfast and a full restaurant, one minute's walk from Cadwell's Grille. The all-suite layout gives a spa-focused evening somewhere quiet to settle into afterward, a separate living space rather than heading straight back to a standard hotel bed. Twenty taxi-minutes from O'Hare keeps it reasonably close to the airport despite the fuller amenity list this property carries, a genuinely rare combination of comfort and convenience on this whole business-focused corridor, and one worth the modest premium over a plainer alternative nearby.

Seven taxi-minutes from Lake Forest, La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Bannockburn-Deerfield pairs an 8.4 rating with a hot tub, indoor pool and fitness center. This is spa in the practical sense rather than the indulgent one, a hot tub after a workout or a long meeting day rather than a treatment menu, which suits most travelers on this business-heavy corridor better than a full spa would anyway. Twenty-two taxi-minutes from O'Hare rounds out a balanced, mid-range option that works equally well for a business trip or a short family getaway nearby.

Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago North Shore (Skokie) by IHG closes this list at a 7.2 rating, a heated indoor pool and hot tub alongside a full restaurant and bar, four minutes' walk from Touhy/Carpenter. Twenty-two taxi-minutes from O'Hare and a thirty-nine-minute public transit option give both driving and non-driving travelers a workable route in. The honest trade-off here: this is a business hotel with spa-adjacent amenities, not a spa property with a hotel attached, worth knowing before booking if a genuine treatment menu is what the trip actually calls for.

Spa amenities in North Side cluster around two distinct traveler types: business travelers wanting a hot tub to soak in after a long meeting day, and golf or leisure travelers at Lincolnshire Marriott Resort wanting a fuller spa experience alongside a multi-night stay. The corridor does not support a standalone destination spa the way a resort town might, so anyone specifically planning a spa trip should treat Lincolnshire as the clear standout rather than expecting a similar depth of offering at the other six properties on this list.