Spa Profile: Spa La Quinta at La Quinta Resort & Club

La Quinta Resort & Club has been a popular desert retreat and getaway for celebrities since 1926.

Located at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains and set on 45 lush acres of vibrant gardens and pathways, La Quinta Resort & Club is a historic desert getaway that has been a favorite among celebrities like Greta Garbo dating back to when it opened in 1926. The stunning property has 620 elegantly-appointed casitas and suites, 98 villas, 41 climate-controlled swimming pools and 53 hot spas, championship-caliber golf, and seven dining options, among others.

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La Quinta Resort & Club is also home to the award-winning Spa La Quinta, a 23,000-square-foot wellness sanctuary that offers luxurious amenities, along with an extensive menu that includes a series of new, recovery-focused treatments fusing CBD and cryo, stretching techniques for fascia release, and cutting-edge tools and technologies to promote healing and restoration.

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We interviewed Christina Cabrera, Director of Spa & Fitness at Spa La Quinta, who shared insider tips, treatments to try, and more.

The property has 41 climate-controlled swimming pools ranging from an adults-only pool to a three-lane lap pool, and more.

Why You’ll Love It: Our guests love the level of personalized service they receive. Our team strives to make genuine connections with our guests ensuring their experience is unique and unmatched. We have a tenured team with some team members being here over 20 years. Our guests have made La Quinta Resort and Spa La Quinta a tradition with generations of families returning year after year. To be welcomed back by name and for the team to engage in the important milestones our guest come to celebrate makes the experience more special.

Spa La Quinta is a 23,000-square-foot, award-winning spa and wellness center at La Quinta Resort & Club.

Key Features: Spa La Quinta is 34,000 square feet and offers 38 treatment rooms, a full-service salon, and retail boutique. We have gender separate locker rooms that include private changing rooms, showers, eucalyptus-infused steam rooms and indoor relaxation lounges. Our outdoor sanctuary garden offers stunning views of the San Jacinto Mountains, vast palm trees, a large wading fountain, spa jacuzzi, chaise lounge chairs, and a covered patio seating area with misters for the summer days and a fireplace for the autumn and winter months.

A beautiful and lush courtyard with a central fountain greets guests at the entrance of the spa.

Bonus: Spa La Quinta begins each spa service with a grounding ritual, intended to bring the guest into the present moment releasing the worries of the past, and of the future so they may fully enjoy the experience of the treatment they are scheduled for.

The spa’s bright and airy lobby and reception area.

Snacks Served: We provide a selection of complimentary infused waters and teas, fresh fruit, and granola. Guests can also order additional food and beverage to be delivered to the sanctuary garden as well.

Spa La Quinta has an abundance of indoor and outdoor relaxation spaces.

Insider’s Tip: You can enhance any spa service to make it more customizable to your needs with add-ons incorporated into the service.

Guests can cool off in the large wading fountain before and after their services.

Splurge Treatment: Our Find Your Zen spa ritual is a popular treatment guests choose when pampering themselves. Stress-reducing biodynamic flower essences detoxifies the mind and body. This treatment begins with a mind–body cleanse ritual by soaking in our zen blend and truffle-infused garden bath. Your senses are piqued with a luxurious body therapy on Lemi’s Aemotio table featuring a heated water mattress, chromotherapy and your personalized ZENT.

After a full-body exfoliation, experience a steam bath with a scalp massage and self-guided pranayama breathing journey, allowing you to achieve deep serenity. The warm Vichy shower will rinse away any worries and your ritual will close with a hydrating full-body lotion application.

The outdoor sanctuary garden offers stunning views of the San Jacinto Mountains and vast palm trees.

Unique Treatment: Our most unique treatment is our Wine Down Massage. I worked with a sommelier to pair specific wines with the aromatics of the therapeutic essential oils used in the massage. The guest receives a flight of wine that is paired with the aromatherapy choices upon arrival. The aroma of choice is used during the massage and the journey concludes with a full pour of wine of choice from the flight to enjoy in our sanctuary garden.

Guests can relax in chaise lounge chairs as well as on a covered patio seating area with misters and a fireplace.

Insider’s Favorite: My favorite treatment is the Spa La Quinta Citrus Escape. As a signature treatment, we incorporate the citrus blossom aroma, which was locally handcrafted and inspired by the resort’s surroundings, throughout the service. Beginning with our signature grounding ritual intended to ground you into the present moment using a brief guided meditation, which walks you through the resort into your spa journey, to a luxurious body therapy on the Italian Designed Ameotio Table by Lemi. The Ameotio table includes a heated water mattress, Chromotherapy LED and infrared lighting.

This treatment includes a full-body exfoliation, a steam bath with scalp massage, invigorating Vichy and bolero water massage, and is concluded with a full-body moisturizing lotion application. We have an array of signature citrus blossom products available in the retail boutique to extend your spa experience and bring you “back to Spa La Quinta” from home.

A thoughtful message bids adieu to guests as they leave the spa.

Featured Products: For skin care we use Babor, Eminence Organic Skin Care, and KNESKO. For massage and body therapies we use ZENTS; Antara for CBD; Modern Luxxe, which is organically locally hand crafted; and Eminence. In the salon we use Davines for hair care; ZENTS, Modern Luxxe, OPI and Dazzle Dry for nail care; and Jane Iredale for Makeup.

For more information on La Quinta Resort & Club, visit their website and follow on Instagram: @laquintaresort

[Photos courtesy of La Quinta Resort & Club]