With a number of the world’s hottest music festivals, from Coachella to Stagecoach, plus Desert X (learn our 2025 assessment) for artwork installations throughout the valley with a backdrop of the San Jacinto Mountains, professional tennis matches, A-list film premiers and historic midcentury fashionable residence excursions, spring is prime time for Angelenos to move out to Palm Springs for a weekend getaway. No matter occasions you’re planning on catching at this modernist mecca and long-time hang-out of Hollywood’s nice and good, right here’s the place to remain, dine and store in type.
What to see and do in Palm Springs, USA
The place to remain
Royal Solar Palm Springs
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Impressed by desert modernism and outdated Hollywood allure, Royal Solar Palm Springs is a 66-room property that romances friends with its geometric-patterned flooring and plush velvet furnishings in jewel tones. The social areas embody a poolside lounge excellent for sipping a prickly pear Palm Spritz with Luxardo Maraschino liqueur and prosecco. In the meantime, eating on the Excessive Moon bar and restaurant resembles a Wes Anderson movie set expertise with vivid floral wallcoverings, crimson and white checked flooring, and turquoise blue bar stools. Right here, the menu provides California delicacies with Latin influences, incorporating desert elements like nopales and bougainvillea. Order the famed Coachella Valley date parfait or the chef-crafted boards, which span artisan cheese and meats, seafood, and sweets from the ‘afterglow’ menu.
Royal Solar Palm Springs is situated at 1700 S Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92264, United States; royalsunps.com
Terra Palm Springs
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Providing a contemporary strategy to wellness and self-care, this 13-room boutique resort is an oasis for a complete rejuvenation. With a central pool and bar space, the property is dotted with amenities reminiscent of chilly plunge remedy, a tranquil rain room with soothing thunderstorm sounds, a Himalayan salt sauna, morning yoga periods, group meditation, sound baths and Ayurvedic spa remedies. The visitor rooms are outfitted with pure, natural supplies reminiscent of concrete, wooden, terracotta, and stone whereas that includes Parachute bedding, personal patios, plunge swimming pools, and fireplace pits. The spa suites maintain soaking tubs and crimson mild remedy. Look out for the HigherDose infrared PEMF mats and eco-conscious bathtub merchandise from Le Labo.
Terra Palm Springs is situated at 888 N Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262, United States; terrapalmsprings.com
The place to eat and drink
Alice B
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Impressed by the extraordinary lifetime of Alice B Toklas and her life accomplice Gertrude Stein, LA-based award-winning celeb cooks Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken are behind this American-Mediterranean restaurant. Highlights embody cheddar biscuits, duck leg confit, and Dixon lamb and leek shepherd’s pie. To anchor the principle eating room, designed by R2d Design with heat tones, artist Jo Hay painted the portraits of Alice and Gertrude. A rotating artwork gallery created by native feminine and LGBTQ+ artists is built-in into the house, together with a piano bar-lounge the place you’ll be able to order a wonderful smash burger.
Alice B. is situated at 1122 E Tahquitz Canyon Approach, Palm Springs, CA 92262, United States; aliceb.com
Misplaced Property at The Skylark Resort
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This all-day bar and restaurant, helmed by LA chef Brandon Kida and bar proprietor Rhino Williams, has taken up residency on the Skylark Resort, which was in-built 1955 by famend Palm Springs Architect Howard Lapham. Anchored by a smooth butcher-block bar high with amber-hued velvet excessive again stools and a Scandi-chic patio with concrete breeze blocks, anticipate espresso cocktails and the Breakfast Smash, scrumptiously stuffed with fennel sausage, sunny egg, and cheddar cheese on a Martin’s potato bun. The night menu shifts to Maine lobster rolls, Maitake mushroom bao, and artisanal tin seafood with onion dip and potato chips, in addition to vesper martinis.
Misplaced Property is situated at The Skylark Resort, 1466 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262, United States; theskylark.com
Bar Cecil
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At this venue impressed by bon vivant Cecil Beaton, pull up a powder-blue leather-based wingback tufted barstool (the place walk-ins are welcome) and order a martini with Beluga vodka, paired with a deviled egg topped with Regiis Ova Caviar by Chef Thomas Keller. Authentic illustrations of Grace Coddington and Diana Vreeland by New York-based Chilean artist Manuel Santelices adorn the partitions, with new watercolours within the eating room, bar, and on the entrance desk. Even after 4 years, reservations for a desk to dine on colossal shrimp cocktails and wagyu tomahawk steaks are nonetheless a number of weeks out. Fortunately, the workforce is opening Beaton’s – a classy salon with a patio, cocktails and bites when you wait.
Bar Cecil is situated at 1555 S Palm Canyon Dr UNIT F, Palm Springs, CA 92264, United States; barcecil.com
The place to buy
H3K House+Design
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For inside designs that pop with all the colors of the rainbow, this downtown furnishings showroom, additionally in Palm Desert, has been celebrated for its high-profile initiatives, together with the general public showcase of properties throughout Palm Springs Modernism Week. Among the many huge house, you will see a variety of midcentury modern-inspired gems, from traditional Eames and Hans Wegner ‘Papa Bear’ chairs and tulip tables to customisable furnishings by MCM, and equipment and items – even in your canine.
H3K House+Design is situated at 501 S Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92264, United States; h3khomeanddesign.com
The Webster
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Palm Springs is a treasure trove for classic purchasing, however for the most recent vacation-inspired fashions, this cool North American chain holds each high designer from Balenciaga to Thom Browne, and jewelry by Anita Ko. The Seventies revival property was designed by French-born Stéphane Parmentier, who took inspiration from Brazil’s geometric structure, and the doorway holds two seating areas paying tribute to Brazilian designer Oscar Niemeyer, and a pink cloud ceiling, a nod to the model’s trademark hue.
The Webster is situated at 850 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262, United States; thewebster.com
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