Sixteen stays from downtown Palm Springs out through Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert and La Quinta, Cody and Burns originals, adults-only bungalow compounds, restored motor lodges and cliffside resorts. The desert's whole range, from nine rooms to eight hundred casitas.
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Jonathan Adler's technicolor compound behind a tall hedge, with Mister Parker's, a croquet lawn and the Palm Springs Yacht Club spa. Note that the whole estate is smoke-free.
Pip’s Tip Strictly smoke-free, which matters here. Jonathan Adler's compound behind a tall hedge, a design pilgrimage.
William F. Cody's 1952 hideaway for Hollywood, now twenty-five adults-only bungalows on three acres with private patios and outdoor showers. Mountain views from the pool, silence after dark.
Pip’s Tip Adults only, twenty-five bungalows, William F. Cody's 1952 design. Book well ahead.
A 1952 ranch rebuilt as a barn-and-bougainvillea retreat: concrete floors, claw-foot tubs, one long table at dinner. No televisions, no scene, just the saltwater pool.
Pip’s Tip No televisions and a communal table, so it is a particular kind of stay. A 1952 ranch rebuilt.
The converted motor lodge that set the template for cool out here. Drinks in the Amigo Room, treatments at Feel Good Spa, DJs at the Swim Club all summer.
Two 1920s villas, one Moroccan and one Mediterranean, joined by olive trees and stone fountains. Films projected on a wall at night, mint tea left at your door.
Herbert Burns designed it in 1951 and Jonathan Adler brought it back in white and green. Twenty-eight rooms, twenty-one and over, and the sharpest small pool deck downtown.
William Cody's 1947 debut, sixteen rooms wrapped around a heated saltwater pool with the redwood and desert stone intact. Adults only, and a short walk to all of Palm Canyon.
A nine-room 1957 motel run like a private club, with Eames and Noguchi pieces you are allowed to sit in and an Orbitini poured every afternoon. Pure Palm Springs.
The valley's newest serious design play: bungalow rooms, a rooftop restaurant and a pool scene, right on North Palm Canyon. Polished, current, and built for a group of six.
The only tower downtown, and the rooftop pool at 4 Saints earns the height. Rooms are crisp and quiet, San Jacinto fills the window, and Village Fest is below you.
A 1936 building with a bootlegger past, now an adults-only compound of Spanish Colonial rooms and bungalows around a palm-lined pool. Dinner at Del Rey is worth staying in for.
Rooms open straight onto the pool deck in the Uptown Design District, adults only, with coffee and cocktails poured from the same counter. Casual, social, and fairly priced.
Six hundred feet up the Santa Rosa cliffs looking down the length of the valley. Big terraces, a proper spa, and the best sunset seat in the desert from the bar.
240 acres of low-rise hacienda, twenty-seven holes of golf and a lazy river. A classic valley resort that suits reunions and families better than it does the design pilgrims.
Palm Desert's design hotel, dropped into the middle of El Paseo. Rooftop pool, Larkspur Grill downstairs, and the galleries and good restaurants literally at the door.
Open since 1926 and still the valley's oldest resort: 800 casitas, forty-one pools, and the Santa Rosas standing straight up behind you. Garbo and Capra country.
William Cody's 1952 hideaway, twenty-five adults-only bungalows and total quiet after dark.
Group rates when the family travels. Members hear first.
Stays are one chapter of Pip's Lifestyle, find the lounges, rooftops, brunch spots and the Domino Club below.
