Spa Wars | Luxury hotels are going all-out to enhance their indulgent treatments. And you're invited | LAtimes.com

I'M face down on a thickly padded massage table when I realize I'm smelling my favorite scent: New Construction. The smell of drying paint, fresh carpeting and new wood is getting pretty common at hotel spas around town, and this is the newest, the 3-day-old Aqua Star Spa at the Beverly Hilton. When the 50-year-old hotel underwent an $80-million renovation this year, it added a spa for the first time in its history and sunk a fair bit of change...