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Tara Loader Wilkinson

Move over members-only clubs that offer boozy lunches and late-night parties. A new generation of longevity-focused private members’ clubs is catering to individuals who, inspired by American serial entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, aim to defy mortality.
Converging on the axes of luxury and wellness, these clubs offer an elite group of members access to advanced diagnostics, genetic testing and anti-ageing biohacking tools, from infrared saunas to cold plunges and much more.
Membership comes at a high cost, with some clubs charging more than £50,000 (US$67,000) annually.
But for the well heeled, this is a small price to pay for a long and healthy life.
Here is a glimpse into members-only clubs from around the world that target extending health spans.
1. Hooke London
In his mid-forties, Russian-born Lev Mikheev was a burnt-out hedge fund manager who had just recovered from a minor health scare.
He felt there was a gap in the market for a centre that offered preventive healthcare, fitness and clinical nutrition under one roof.
Hooke was founded in 2019 on his conviction that anyone can enjoy a long and healthy lifespan if they put enough effort into safeguarding their physical and cognitive health.
The plush clinic is housed in a three-storey listed building in London’s affluent Mayfair area.

“It’s a one-stop shop, predominantly for well people. The idea is that you don’t wait until you’re sick to start working on your health,” says Mikheev’s daughter, Kate Woolhouse, who has been chief executive since 2023.
Woolhouse explains that membership offers medical, nutritional, fitness and cognitive healthcare within one comprehensive plan, adding that the club can even organise a chef and meal delivery in the UK.
It counts around 75 families as members, predominantly from Europe, with increasing applications from China and India.

Members can have about 120 different types of health tests, including MRI and ECG scans, mammograms, cognitive brain function tests, and in-depth blood analyses to check for many conditions.
Membership options range from around £17,000 to £51,000 per year, and offer health investigations and advanced programme support, a customised longevity programme, and extra testing and analysis for the most in-depth data profiling available.
2. RoseBar (Ibiza)
The location of RoseBar alone is enough to make you feel younger. It is housed in a Six Senses hotel carved into a cliff on Spanish holiday island Ibiza’s Cala Xarraca coast.

Led by author and celebrity doctor Mark Hyman, RoseBar at Six Senses Ibiza is a longevity club offering advanced diagnostics, functional medicine, biohacking therapies and spiritual well-being.
For €2,000 (US$2,300) a month, members get an initial biological age and methylation test and a nutritional consultation, plus unlimited access to photobiomodulation (red light therapy), saunas, cold plunges, cryotherapy and Normatec – a wearable air-compression system that uses pulsing massage patterns to enhance recovery.
The fee also includes a monthly hyperbaric oxygen therapy session; a monthly “human regenerator” session, which involves lying in a special device that generates negatively charged ions and electrons said to stimulate cellular activity and promote recovery; and a monthly functional medicine consultation.
3. Continuum (New York)
This luxury wellness club is located in the historical red-brick Federal Archive Building in Manhattan’s hip West Village.
Continuum’s founder and chief executive, TV host and tech entrepreneur Jeff Halevy, opened the club in 2024.
The 25,000 sq ft (2,300 square metre) space features state-of-the-art wellness and recovery equipment, workout areas, and spa facilities.

New members at this biohacker’s heaven undergo a plethora of tests, including aerobic threshold with a VO2 max (the maximum amount of oxygen a person can use during exercise), bone density, resting heart rate, cell health, toxic load, gut health, brain chemistry, hydration, inflammation and REM sleep cycles.
The data is then used to create an AI “digital twin” – the healthiest version of a member, which resides on an app.
To help become that person, Continuum also offers tailor-made workouts, recovery regimes and nutrition prescriptions.
Membership is limited to 250 people, who pay a monthly fee of US$10,000 (HK$78,000).
4. Fountain Life (Texas, Florida, New York)

Co-founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, author and business strategist Tony Robbins, orthopaedic surgeon Dr. William Kapp, and surgeon Dr. Robert Hariri, Fountain Life has a mission to make “100 years old the new 60”.
It has diagnostics and wellness centres in Dallas and Houston in Texas; New York; and Orlando and Naples in Florida, with one recently added in Miami at the One Thousand Museum building by Zaha Hadid Architects, which has a private rooftop helipad. More centres are planned.
Fountain Life’s membership plans range from US$6,500 to US$21,500 annually.

The most expensive membership tier provides access to a dedicated care team, including a longevity-trained doctor, nurse, health coach and nutritionist, along with full-body and brain MRI scans, genetic and metabolic profiling, cardiac imaging, personalised health optimisation programmes, and advanced diagnostics using artificial intelligence (AI).
“Our vision has always been to embed world-class preventive care within spaces that elevate and inspire,” Kapp says. “We want our centres to feel more like a wellness retreat than a medical clinic.”
5. Surrenne (Cote d’Azur, London)

Luxury hotel group Maybourne’s Surrenne well-being clubs are located in London’s Belgravia district and on the French Riviera.
Surrenne’s Belgravia branch at the Emory hotel sprawls over four subterranean floors with interiors by designer Remi Tessier.
Individual memberships there cost £10,000 per year plus a £5,000 joining fee.
Its 18,000 sq ft space includes a state-of-the-art gym with an on-demand fitness studio, a 22-metre swimming pool with an underwater sound system for in-water meditation, saunas, steam rooms, snow showers, hyperbaric chambers and a recovery circuit.
It also has a cafe and the UK’s only Tracy Anderson fitness studio, with daily classes that focus on creating a “dancer’s body” with strong, lean muscles.

Members can book sessions with facialists and dermatology experts, shiatsu and reiki masters, clinical practitioners, sleep specialists, and nutritionists.
This year, newly launched sister club Surrenne Riviera, at the Maybourne Riviera on France’s Cote d’Azur, offers unlimited fitness classes, including ones dedicated to the Lagree Method, popular among Hollywood stars.
Members can have a body composition analysis, a private training session, access to the pool and contrast therapy. There are also saunas, hammams and cold plunges, as well as a skin diagnosis and treatment options.
A three-month membership costs €7,000 plus a joining fee of €1,000 for individuals, while a joint membership rate is €12,000 plus a joining fee of €1,000 per person – for direct family members only.
A membership at one of the Surrenne clubs will not give you access to the other.
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From red light therapy to genetic testing, these members-only clubs in Europe and the US offer services worthy of biohacker Bryan Johnson