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Latest+Greatest Palm Springs (March 2017)

The Rowan Hotel, a six-story, 154-room Kimpton property, is set to open in early May as part of the Downtown Palm Springs Project. The property will feature the city’s first rooftop pool.

The Hotel Paseo, part of the Marriott Autograph Collection, is expected to open in October. The 150-room property is the first of its kind in the El Paseo Shopping District in Palm Desert. The property will feature a pool, spa, dining and ballroom.

Slated to open in 2018, the 150-room, 13-suite Andaz Palm Springs will be located adjacent to the Uptown Design District.

SilverRock Resort, the $420 million project set to break ground this summer in La Quinta, will include a 140-room luxury hotel and spa, as well as a 200-room lifestyle hotel. Also in the works is a 150,000-square-foot resort village with residential units and up to 40,000 square feet of retail space and recreation areas. The project also includes a mini riverfront promenade and a conference center with ballroom and meeting space.

Virgin Hotels Palm Springs is expected to open in 2019 with 150 rooms and suites, multiple dining and drinking outlets, meetings spaces and a rooftop terrace and pool overlooking the mountains.   

V Palm Springs, a boutique hotel that debuted in March 2016, will soon open its fourth building, bringing the property’s room total to 140. The new Solstice Bar and Restaurant and an outdoor spa will also open this year.  

Famed architect John Lautner’s iconic 1947 desert hideaway was reimagined as The Lautner, a vacation rental property and event space. The compound has three properties: The Lautner, The Park and The Ranch House.   

The Parker Palm Springs recently underwent a complete renovation and opened a new wine bar named Counter Reformation.

The Saguaro Palm Springs recently finished renovations to its event spaces. The project included the addition of a 1,175-square-foot terrace overlooking the hotel’s courtyard and an exposed and higher ceiling in its Sago Ballroom.

Movie Colony Hotel, under new ownership, just finished a renovation that preserved the original feel of architect Albert Frey’s original design.   

ARRIVE is building The Fan Club, an outdoor event space that at press time was scheduled to open this month. ARRIVE is a 32-room boutique hotel located in the Uptown Design District of Palm Springs.

The Riviera Palm Springs, a Tribute Portfolio Resort  just completed a renovation that resulted in the addition of a new pool bar, wedding pavilion and enhanced lobby. The hotel opened in 1959 and now features 398 rooms and more than 52,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space.

L’Horizon Resort & Spa recently broke ground on an additional 25 rooms that will double its capacity. A new pool will also be added. Formerly known as the Horizon Hotel, L’Horizon Resort & Spa was originally built in 1952 and designed by famed architect William Cody. The property is the only hotel in the Coachella Valley that is a member of Leading Hotels of the World.   

The Miramonte Indian Wells Resort & Spa is one of the newest additions to Curio–A Collection by Hilton. The 215-room resort offers 20,000 square feet of meeting space and will continue to be managed by Two Roads Hospitality (formerly known as Destination Hotels).