The Five-Star Forest Bath

Willow Stream Spa At Fairmont Pacific Rim

1038 CANADA PL.

Nowhere but the Willow Stream would mud and salt feel like such luxurious balms. In the Fairmont Pacific Rim’s awardwinning fifth-floor spa, the Canadian Wilderness Retreat treatment (from $289) leans hard into the West Coast’s natural wonders. An invigorating hemp-and-sea-salt scrub is applied with fresh seaweed before your full-body massage with cedar-andorange infused Canadian Wilderness oil; the experience wraps up with a grounding foot mask of glacial clay and an ooh-that-tingles scalp massage. You’ll be invited to choose your soundtrack from a curated music menu, but ocean sounds are the way to go for this particular treatment: in the dark room, the scent of the rainforest and the crashing of waves is downright transportive. Don’t forget your swimsuit: the intimate Jacuzzi and mineral baths on the terrace, available two hours pre- or post-treatment, are worth the price of admission alone. (Saunas and steam rooms are available, too.) There’s no wrong time of day to pop in, of course, but an evening treatment here, with those terrace pools lit up and the city lights twinkling below, feels at once cozy and luxurious... particularly when followed up with an Old Fashioned at the Lobby Lounge downstairs. fairmont.com

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