Spa Nautica opened last month at the Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey, a small seaside community on Los Angeles’s Westside. After the hotel’s previous spa closed two and half years ago, Ritz-Carlton took its time finding a spa provider that would advance its goal of providing locals and guests with a “metropolitan oasis” where they could relax, revitalize, and escape the frenzy of the city.
The full-service spa—tucked into a niche between the hotel’s private rose garden and the harbor—offers massages, body wraps,…