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Palm Springs Area Hotel Guide: Inside the La Quinta Resort and Club
June 9, 2008 at 4:29 PM | 2 Comments
While it's definitely the off-season for Palm Springs right now, it's also the best time to take advantage of cheap room rates at some of the desert's best hotels. We'll be rounding up some of the Palm Springs area's (including Palm Desert) most notable hotels this month. Got any suggestions or questions? Let us know.
We decided to take a spontaneous trip to Palm Springs with a few girlfriends this weekend. Forgoing the thought of sleeping on a friend's couch--or worse, the floor--we decided to hit up Hotwire to see what we could find.
And what we found and booked was a spectacular deal of $94 a night at the La Quinta Resort & Club, a sprawling Waldorf-Astoria Collection hotel made up of little casitas and villas in Palm Desert.
For realz. $94 a night. So we jumped in our friend's car and made the two-hour drive from Los Angeles into the dead heat of the desert.
Hotel Packages
A Desert Getaway to the La Quinta Resort and Club
November 7, 2007 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
La Quinta Resort & Club is one of our favorite desert getaways in Palm Springs. Actually, it's the only desert getaway we've ever taken but we thoroughly enjoyed our stay when we went.
Now the hotel is part of the Waldorf-Astoria Collection from Hilton Hotels and is offering a Discovery package (other hotels in the collection are also offering Discovery packages which are unique to the hotels' location.)
At La Quinta, the package includes a four-night stay for two in a Starlight Casita with a king bed. These rooms all have fireplaces and private patios with mountain views. Recently the resort put all new carpeting and 37" HD flat-screen TVs in all the rooms.
But you better like golf as the package includes two one-hour golf lessons and daily unlimited golf at one of the five championship golf courses.
There will be also spa treatments, a $100 gift certificate to any of the boutique shops on the premises, dinner for two at the Adobe Grill, and daily breakfast for two. Topping it off is an evening Jeep Tour to the San Andreas Fault and two tickets to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway which is a large cable car gondola that takes guests from the desert floor to the top of Mt. San Jacinto.
The package is priced at $3,200. To book, call 1-800-WALDORF or go online. Use the code P8 when making reservations.
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Hotel Spas
Ten Hotel Spas: La Quinta Resort, Not La Quinta The Roadside Inn
July 6, 2005 at 10:09 AM | 0 Comments
Next up on our spatastic journey is the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, Calif.
Do not confuse this amazing resort near Palm Springs at the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains with the little inns/motels found alongside USA highways, also called La Quinta.
Although it's primarily a golf spot, boasting 90 holes of "some of the country's best golf", the resort has also made a name for itself because of the 23,000 square foot spa.
The spa has close to 40 treatment rooms along with an outdoor relaxation garden, and all of the it's signature treatments were inspired by the area's Native American ancestors, like the Sacred Stone Massage.
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Hotels
La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs - Dry Almighty
January 4, 2005 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments
La Quinta Club & Resort is a gem of a place but seemingly made especially for the elderly golfer / spa enthusiast / tennis player. Not to say there weren't young kids running around taking full advantage of the video arcade at the hotel's Camp La Quint but simply put: it's a geriatric's paradise.
Sure, the dry air, startling scenery of red mountain and rock meeting manicured green golf tees will charm anyone at any age and the large amount of activites does offer something for almost everyone yet there is something so distinctly ingrained in the place that it just can't stop screaming: SLOW DOWN and GO EASY. But not in that, relax and breathe deep zen way but in that crotchety-you-kids-could-learn-something-if-you-just-slowed-down kind of way.
There are some fabulous bits to the resort however. The multiple hot tubs and pools across the property beg you to relax after an active day. The three restaurants offer option but since the best one is pretty damn expensive the other two - one Mexican and the other serving passable american fare are often crowded and unsatisfying. Best bet is to book a casita with a kitchenette and cook then save going out as a splurge or rent a fun car and drive the 45 min to Palm Springs for a more tasty meal.
Not to say that the Resort isn't appealing for some (even those who have yet to go white on top) and for some it is just as it should be. The staff is very kind and the grounds are very attractive. But if you're young, at all restless and here's the real kicker: single, then you best play a few rounds of golf or spend a day at the spa and then be on your merry way.
