The 10 Best Palm Springs Luxury Hotels

The Best of Palm Springs: Desert Design, Mineral Springs, and California Luxury

Palm Springs has the largest concentration of mid-century modern architecture in the world, and the city knows exactly what it has. You'll find over 3,000 buildings designed by architects like Richard Neutra and William Pereira, which makes this desert town something worth seeking out.

Every February, Modernism Week brings design obsessives from around the world for tours inside estates that rarely open their doors the rest of the year. The best luxury resorts in Palm Springs are built around this legacy, pairing design credentials with wellness infrastructure in a way that few destinations can match.

Beneath all of it, quite literally, is what drew people here long before the architects arrived. Natural hot springs run under the Coachella Valley, and the mineral spring resorts built above them have developed a spa culture that rivals any in Europe.

Above all, what Palm Springs offers a well-traveled guest is specificity. The architecture is clearly identifiable, the springs are all-natural, and the desert light that falls across both of them in the late afternoon belongs entirely to this place.