Clinic Les Alpes, Montreux
Cost · United Kingdom
What private rehab costs in the UK, and what the alternatives cost.
By the LuxuryRecovery Editorial Team1,150 words · 5 min read
The short version
A 28-day residential programme in the UK is published at £21,813 by Priory, the largest private provider, with detox-only stays at £6,540 and residential stays without detox from £4,410.1 Independent British clinics sit in a similar band and mostly publish nothing. The European tier British guests weigh against it is a different order of number: Clinic Les Alpes publishes from CHF 60,000 a week, and Paracelsus Recovery, which treats one guest at a time, publishes CHF 110,000 a week.2 What separates them is how many people the clinical team is looking after that month.
Almost everyone arrives at this question the same way: someone you love needs residential treatment, the NHS route has a waiting list or the wrong kind of programme on the other end of it, and you need to know what the private option costs before you can think about anything else.
The good news is that the UK is unusually transparent. Priory publishes a full tariff, which almost no operator in this field does anywhere in the world. That gives every British family a real anchor number, and it makes the rest of the market legible.
The published tariff
What does a UK programme cost, line by line?
| Programme | Published price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Transform 28 | £21,813 | 28-day inpatient programme with therapy, twelve months of aftercare, optional detox |
| Foundations 16 | £10,260 | Inpatient detox, then day-care therapy and recovery planning, with twelve months of aftercare |
| Reset 7/10 | £6,540 | Seven to ten days of medically supervised inpatient detox, accommodation and meals included |
| Flourish 14/28/42 | from £4,410 | Residential recovery programme without detox — accommodation, meals, group therapy |
Every figure above is Priory’s own, from its price page dated 1 December 2025.1The line that matters most is the last one: the cheapest headline number in British rehab buys a residential stay with no detox in it. If someone is physically dependent on alcohol or benzodiazepines, that is not the programme they need, and the comparison you are actually making is between £21,813 and its European equivalents.
The European comparison
Why is Switzerland ten times the price?
Clinic Les Alpes above Montreux publishes from CHF 60,000 a week, covering the individual programme and hospitality services with full in-house detox where it is needed; medical treatment unrelated to the admission is billed separately.3 Paracelsus Recovery in Zurich publishes CHF 110,000 a week for its four-week residential programme and CHF 130,000 for a seven-day executive detox, with aftercare from CHF 2,500 a day.2
The gap is staffing arithmetic. A British inpatient programme runs a clinical team across a ward. Paracelsus builds a psychiatrist, therapists, a nurse and a live-in support team around one person, and nobody else is admitted while that person is there. Whether that is worth four times the money depends entirely on the case: a complicated medical detox, a public figure who cannot be seen in a group, a previous admission that failed in a shared setting.
Spain occupies the middle, and it is where a lot of British guests land. Camino Recovery in Andalúcia never has more than eight guests at a time,4 runs trauma-focused work and equine therapy as part of the core programme rather than as an add-on, and does not publish a rate — but sits well below the Swiss tier. A longer stay for the same money is the usual reason people choose it.
Before you pay for anything
Should you be paying at all?
For a great many people the honest answer is no. Residential rehabilitation is available through the NHS: a GP or a local drug and alcohol service can refer, and charities and the NHS provide most drug treatment in the UK.5 That route is free, staffed by people who do this every day, and for a first attempt at treatment without medical complications it is often the right first call.
Private care earns its cost in specific situations: when a funded place is not available in a timeframe the situation can survive, when detox needs close medical supervision, when a previous admission has already failed, or when privacy is genuinely load-bearing — a public role, a professional registration, a family business. If none of those describe your situation, start with your GP.
And whichever way you go, get four things in writing before you commit: whether detox is included, how many one-to-one hours a week are guaranteed, what aftercare comes with the fee and for how long, and what would trigger an additional charge. The distance between a headline price and a final invoice is nearly always one of those four.
Questions people ask
The cost questions, answered plainly.
How much does private rehab cost in the UK?
How much does the Priory cost?
Is residential rehab available on the NHS?
Why is rehab in Switzerland so much more expensive?
Is a cheaper programme abroad worth considering?
What should the price include?
Where to go from here
If you want the shortlist rather than the arithmetic, tell us the situation — where the person is, what they are dealing with, and what the stay needs to protect — and we will come back with the two or three European programmes that fit. .