Palm Springs, United States

Terra Palm Springs

Price per night from$299.77

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Style

All is well(ness)

Setting

The camera-ready Movie Colony

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Wellness is at the core of Terra Palm Springs and that core is yogi-strong — every aspect of a stay at this adults-only Californian retreat is designed to nurture and revive. What that looks like is wholly up to you, but the hotel’s Himalayan-salt sauna, cold-plunge bath, ASMR-inducing rain room and pool with a view of the San Jacinto Mountains should all be stops on your journey as you ease into Palm Springs’ classic holiday mode.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

13, including eight suites.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in is from 4pm to 7pm (contactless check-in can be arranged after this time). Both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a wholesome breakfast of avocado on toast, hard-boiled eggs, yoghurt and granola; and a welcome drink. Some weekend stays (from Saturday) are a two-night minimum).

Also

Terra Palm Springs’ Firepit Suite is ADA-compliant and fully accessible. Please note that there are no elevators at the hotel.

At the hotel

Free-to-borrow bikes and tennis rackets, charged washing and pressing service, and free WiFi. In rooms: TV, ceiling fan, air-conditioning, smart Loftie alarm clock (loaded with sleep-aiding programmes), yoga mats and blocks, minibar, bathrobes, slippers and La Labo Santal 33 and Hinoki Lab bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Set your intention when booking. If it’s to get your heart rate up and serotonin flowing, go with the Movement Suite, which has a private workout patio; if it’s to seize each day with a bracing dip, go with the Cold Plunge Suite for its small but slap-you-awake pool; and if it’s to drink wine and sit, then, hey, the Firepit Suite is for you.

Poolside

As you float in the petite, heated, iconically retro kidney-shaped pool or sip a cocktail in a sunlounger, you can see the San Jacinto Mountains in the background, acting as burly stone bodyguards, telling life’s stresses that access is denied. And you can bubble your worries away in the neighbouring hot tub, too.

Spa

The pursuit of wellness is why you’re here, and the hotel’s fine-tuned to make you feel good, from alarm clocks that play breathwork exercises and guided meditations, to in-room add-ons of electromagnetic-pulse or red-light therapy. Plot out a path that best fits you, mixing up warm spells in the Himalayan-salt sauna and hot tub, cool awakenings in the cold-plunge pool, and some peace-inducing patter in the rain room. Enhance it all with herbaceous boosts from Ayurvedic treatments.

Packing tips

It’s more about unpacking here, but bring whatever makes your wellness journey more comfortable: flowy clothes, trainers you can bike in, swimwear for days.

Also

You can help yourself to free tea and coffee in the lobby from 7.30am to 7pm.

Pet‐friendly

One well-behaved hound can stay in the Cold Plunge Suite for US$75 a night, plus tax, subject to availability. Your dog must not be left alone and the owner is responsible for any damages. See more pet-friendly hotels in Palm Springs.

Children

You hear that? No? Exactly — that’s the sound of a stay for over-18s only.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Pitch up beside the pool and take in the dreamy desert vistas.

Dress Code

Lululemon, pajama-adjacent fits or a kaftan-sarong situation in ice-cream colours.

Hotel restaurant

Dining is very casual, with tables by the pool and light, nutrient-rich fare ferried in from Workshop Kitchen across the road. If we had James Beard-award-winning chef-owner Michael Beckman as a neighbor, we’d be angling for an invite to try his green-chilli cheeseburger, and confit-duck-leg salad with pomegranate and ras-al-hanout. But if you’d prefer to Uber Eats something in, you’re welcome to enjoy your delivery wherever.

Hotel bar

‘Wellness cocktails’ — surely an oxymoron, but here spirits mixed with spirulina, adaptogenic mushrooms, marine collagen, magnesium and chlorophyll make happy hour a healthy one, too, at the bar beside the pool. But those willpower-ing through can add the Zen juice cleanse onto their stay: a week’s worth of zingy, organic raw juices. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am to 10am. Lunches can be delivered from 10am to 3pm, Monday and Thursday to Saturday, or till 2pm on a Sunday. Drinks are served at the bar from 7.30am to 7pm.

Room service

Pick up light dishes like chicken and apple salad or hummus bowls from the fridge in the reception lobby. Your minibar is packed with nourishing snacks: kombucha, sweet-potato chips, dried tropical fruit, mushroom and microdose gummies…

Location

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Address
Terra Palm Springs
888 North Indian Canyon Drive
Palm Springs
92262
United States

Terra Palm Springs sits amid the homes of former Hollywood legends and Modernist marvels at the tree-lined west edge of The Movie Colony neighbourhood.

Planes

Palm Springs International Airport is just a 10-minute drive away, which largely services domestic US flights (and some direct from Canada). If arriving from abroad, connect via LAX, around an hour’s journey.

Trains

The Palm Springs Amtrak station (a stop on the Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle routes) sits just north of the hotel, a 10-minute drive away. The journey from LA’s Union Station is around three hours.

Automobiles

Road trips from LA to Palm Springs will take around two-and-a-half hours, traffic-dependent; having a hire car will allow you to experience much more of Palm Springs. There’s free parking on-site.

Worth getting out of bed for

Hop on one of the hotel’s bikes (free to use, but best to book in advance) and pedal around Palm Springs’ mid-century marvels, desert vistas and dinosaurs (the huge, fake ones guarding the entrance to the Cabazon Dinosaur Park), or the Transformer-like sculptures at Robolights. Staff are happy to recommend routes and provide free-to-use tennis racquets for the courts in nearby Ruth Hardy Park. 

Notable homes nearby include the Kirk Douglas estate, Cary Grant’s former home, Dinah Shore’s retro-fabulous house, and the spaceship-shaped Alexander Estate, where Elvis honeymooned. Head south, along and past the Walk of Stars, for cacti-strewn trailheads and the Moorten Botanical Garden; and to see the significant collection at Palm Springs Art Museum. And for a better view of those distant mountains, ride the Aerial Tramway. 

Local restaurants

The secret to healthy eating? Have chef Michael Beckman on call. The James Beard-award holder supplies lunches to Terra Palm Springs from his restaurant Workshop Kitchen, handily just across the road. It’s a beautifully restored 1920s building on the outside, with cool concrete minimalism on the inside, and deliciously virtuous — and less so — dishes. Vietnamese-American joint Rooster and the Pig invites you in with wafts of fragrant noodles and curries; the signature panko-crusted chicken-curry ball is one for the memory-bank. And The Tropicale’s cheerful pink promises more retro kitsch within, and delivers with neons, exotic flora and leather booths. Slide into one for Cali-Latin American fusion fare.

Local cafés

Come lunchtime, drop into Ruben & Ozzy’s for oyster shots, lobster bisque and fish tacos; or swing by The Heyday for its renowned smashburgers.

Local bars

It’s Palm Springs, you don’t need snifters of whiskey or notes on wine, you want OTT colour, novelty glassware and cocktails with names like ‘Topless Beach’, so garnished they might topple. Bootlegger Tiki has all this and more, more, more. The city can be serious for a minute, too, especially at Truss & Twine, pretty much the exact opposite of Bootlegger, with some common ground when it comes to top-quality tipples. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this raising-the-spa hotel in the glamorous Movie Colony neighbourhood and felt the benefit of the adaptogenic-mushroom mocktails and microdose gummies, a full account of their where-your-email-won’t-find-me break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Terra Palm Springs…

Once upon a time, since the Fifties, Terra Palm Springs was the clothing-optional lodging house for gay men, the Bearfoot Inn. But don’t unbutton just yet, because it’s still mightily laidback, though these days guests waft around in bikinis or one of the soft Parachute bathrobes you’ll find in your room. Terra’s particular trade is the art of wellness, and like the negative ions (actually a positive thing) in the Himalayan salt sauna’s air, it’s infused into all aspects of your stay. Rooms come with alarms loaded with meditations, soothing sleep stories and more; minibars filled with calming gummies, sparkling botanical teas and other good-for-you treats; and most have serotonin-boosting extras, such as an extra-large alfresco soaking tub or a workout deck. And, its positioning, with the pool looking out to the San Jacinto Mountains, lets that energy flow. A fabulous pivot from bears to cares. 

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