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The desert is in the middle of its biggest hotel boom in years — from the long-awaited Thompson on Palm Canyon Drive to a Hollywood-era estate reborn as a racquet-and-swim club, the city's first dedicated wellness hotel, and a Mediterranean-inspired boutique hideaway.
Opened Oct 2024
The desert's most anticipated opening in years — and the first collaboration between Hyatt and Dallas-based HALL Group. The Thompson Palm Springs opened October 2024 with 168 bungalow-inspired rooms and suites, each with a private balcony framing the San Jacinto Mountains, right on Palm Canyon Drive downtown. A rooftop skyline pool and swim club crowns Lola Rose Grand Mezze, the Levantine restaurant from Chef Quentin Garcia, alongside Bar Issi and a HALL Napa Valley tasting room on the ground floor. World of Hyatt points eligible.
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Opened Aug 2025
A 1943 Errol Flynn estate reborn as a racquet, swim, and social club. Casa Palma Hotel & Bungalows opened August 2025 on the historic Normandy Hotel site, spreading 33 rooms and suites across 2.5 acres of citrus and olive groves a mile from downtown. The Mediterranean-inspired retreat pairs two pools rigged for water volleyball and basketball with a tennis court and pickleball overlays, the Chiquita restaurant, fire pits, and complimentary bikes for cruising into town.
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Opened Jan 2025
Palm Springs' first hotel built entirely around wellness. The 13-room Terra Palm Springs opened January 2025 steps from downtown on Indian Canyon Drive, with a desert healing circuit — Himalayan salt sauna, cold plunge, and an immersive rain room — all complimentary and open 24/7. Rooms feature private patios, plunge pools, and fire pits, with Le Labo bath products and spa suites adding red-light therapy and soaking tubs for a true reset.
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Revived 2023
A 1930s Spanish-style inn reimagined as a "Tulum-meets-the-Mediterranean" hideaway. Yara Hotel reopened in 2023 as a 10-room adults-only retreat in Tahquitz River Estates, wrapped in whitewashed walls and custom tilework. A heated saltwater pool with cabanas and daybeds anchors the courtyard, joined by a cold plunge, fire pit, and a poolside bar pouring craft cocktails and natural wines, with a complimentary breakfast bar each morning. The whole property can be bought out for groups of up to 26.
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A fresh harbor-front refresh minutes from the airport. The DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego Bayside reopened in February 2025 after a top-to-bottom renovation, overlooking America's Cup Harbor with modern rooms and suites, an on-site restaurant and bar, an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a complimentary shuttle to San Diego International Airport. Hilton Honors points eligible.
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Apartment-style flexibility in the heart of downtown. The Artifact Hotel opened June 2025 just over a mile from the San Diego Convention Center, with fully equipped in-room kitchens, family-friendly layouts, city views, and an outdoor fireplace — built for longer stays and families who want room to spread out without leaving Downtown. Walkable to the USS Midway and the Santa Fe Depot.
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Design-forward style inside a 1904 landmark. The Granger Hotel Gaslamp Quarter opened in late 2024 as San Diego's first Marriott Design Hotels member, pairing the original architecture of the historic Granger Building with bold, art-filled interiors, Le Labo amenities, the 5th & Lox breakfast room and cocktail bar, and a complimentary welcome drink for direct bookings. A 15-minute walk from Petco Park and the Convention Center. Marriott Bonvoy points eligible.
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Major new hotels and luxury developments under construction across San Diego — from the ultra-luxury Fairmont rising on the North Embarcadero to a design-led Coronado debut from the team behind the Lafayette Hotel.
Ultra-luxury rises on the San Diego waterfront. The Fairmont Manchester San Diego will be a 36-story glass tower on the North Embarcadero — 1,160 rooms including 69 suites and the brand's exclusive Fairmont Gold hotel-within-a-hotel — set directly across from the USS Midway and adjacent to the cruise terminal. Part of a sweeping waterfront redevelopment with more than five acres of green space, it lands within walking distance of the Convention Center and Gaslamp Quarter, joining the brand's California collection alongside the Fairmont Grand Del Mar.
A full-service flagship for the heart of downtown. Le Méridien San Diego will bring 231 rooms and the brand's European-inspired, mid-century design sensibility to the city core — the most imminent of San Diego's major openings, built for business and leisure travelers who want to be steps from the action. Marriott Bonvoy points eligible.
The follow-up to one of California's most celebrated hotels. The Baby Grand is the second property from CH Projects — the local hospitality group behind the Michelin-Keyed, Esquire-honored Lafayette Hotel — bringing their signature retro-maximalist, food-and-beverage-driven style across the bay to Coronado. Expect the same design obsession and buzzy social spaces that made their North Park flagship a national talking point.
A landmark office tower reborn as a dual-brand hotel. Tower 180 will convert a 25-story downtown high-rise into a 560-key project pairing a 371-room Hyatt Place with a 189-room Hyatt House — a roughly $250 million transformation topped by the Lurline Cocktail Club, a rooftop bar and lounge on the 25th floor. More than 12,000 square feet of meeting space and a ground-floor market round out one of downtown's biggest new-supply additions. World of Hyatt points eligible.
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Palm Springs is compact but distinct — downtown energy, the design-district cool of Uptown, quiet historic pockets, and the broader desert beyond. Here's where the new hotels are landing and who each area suits best.
The heart of the action — restaurants, galleries, the Thursday VillageFest, and the Art Museum all within a stroll. The Thompson Palm Springs anchors Palm Canyon Drive with rooftop dining, and the wellness-focused Terra Palm Springs sits steps off it on Indian Canyon. Best for first-timers who want to park once and walk to everything.
The stretch of North Palm Canyon known for mid-century furniture shops, galleries, and buzzy restaurants. The small-and-stylish Jazz Hotel sits in the district, and the historic Riviera Palm Springs is being reborn here under IHG. Best for design hunters and travelers who want a cooler, quieter base just north of the core.
The leafy enclave where Hollywood's elite built winter estates. The adults-only Velvet Rope revives a 1952 Herbert Burns building here with nine themed suites and a speakeasy bar. Best for couples and design romantics who want vintage glamour within walking distance of downtown.
The residential south end trades downtown bustle for calm, palm-lined streets and intimate inns. The Mediterranean Yara Hotel hides out in Tahquitz River Estates, the reimagined Lucille Palm Springs sits near the museum and Walk of Stars, and the expanded Sunny Dunes Road Resort is rising nearby. Best for travelers who want quiet and a pool to themselves.
Just north of downtown, this pocket of old Hollywood estates now holds the recreation-forward Casa Palma Hotel & Bungalows — built on Errol Flynn's former Normandy site with two pools, a tennis court, pickleball, and citrus groves. Best for groups and active travelers who want a social, amenity-rich base a mile from the center.
Beyond the city, the wider Coachella Valley is where the desert's biggest new resort projects are landing. Chief among them is DSRT Surf in Palm Desert — a 5.5-acre surf lagoon with a hotel and villas to follow. Best for travelers chasing golf, surf, and full-scale resort amenities a short drive from Palm Springs proper.
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The Casa Palma Hotel & Bungalows opened in August 2025 on the historic site of Errol Flynn's 1943 Normandy Hotel — 33 rooms and suites across 2.5 acres of citrus and olive groves a mile from downtown, with two pools, a tennis court with pickleball overlays, and the Chiquita restaurant. Before it, the wellness-focused Terra Palm Springs opened in January 2025.
The Thompson Palm Springs is the marquee recent opening — 168 bungalow-inspired rooms and suites on Palm Canyon Drive, the first collaboration between Hyatt and HALL Group. Opened October 2024, it features a rooftop pool and swim club, the Levantine restaurant Lola Rose Grand Mezze, Bar Issi, and a HALL Napa Valley tasting room. World of Hyatt points eligible.
Yes. The Terra Palm Springs opened in January 2025 as the city's first hotel built entirely around wellness. The 13-room downtown retreat offers a desert healing circuit — a Himalayan salt sauna, cold plunge, and immersive rain room, all complimentary and open 24/7 — plus rooms with private patios, plunge pools, and fire pits.
Yes. DSRT Surf opens in nearby Palm Desert in summer 2026 with a 5.5-acre Wavegarden surf lagoon capable of up to 1,000 waves an hour, followed by a barefoot-luxury hotel and villas in a later phase. It joins the existing Palm Springs Surf Club to make the desert a hub for inland surfing.
Plenty. Palm Springs added a crop of design-forward boutiques, including the adults-only Velvet Rope, with nine Old Hollywood-themed suites in a 1952 Herbert Burns building; the small-and-stylish Jazz Hotel in the Uptown Design District; and The Lucille, a reimagined bungalow hideaway named for Lucille Ball.
The Riviera Palm Springs, a beloved Uptown Design District landmark, is returning to its mid-century roots under IHG Hotels & Resorts. After a renovation reintroducing classic Rat Pack glamour, the resort closes June through December 2026 and is planned to reopen in early 2027.
Palm Springs has been a desert escape since Hollywood's golden age, and its hotel scene is in the middle of its liveliest reinvention in decades. The draw is unmistakably its own — mid-century architecture, dry-martini glamour, pools under the San Jacinto Mountains, and a boutique-hotel culture unlike anywhere else in California. After years of quiet, a wave of new openings has given the city a genuinely fresh lineup.
The headline arrival is the Thompson Palm Springs, the first collaboration between Hyatt and HALL Group — a bungalow-inspired hotel on Palm Canyon Drive with rooftop dining and a Napa tasting room. Close behind, the Casa Palma Hotel & Bungalows reborn Errol Flynn's old estate as a racquet-and-swim social club, and Terra Palm Springs introduced the city's first hotel built entirely around wellness, with a salt sauna, cold plunge, and rain room.
The boutique tradition that made Palm Springs famous is thriving too. The adults-only Velvet Rope channels Old Hollywood across nine themed suites, the Jazz Hotel brings easygoing style to the Uptown Design District, and The Lucille reimagines a bungalow hideaway named for Lucille Ball. The Mediterranean Yara Hotel rounds out the small-inn scene in quiet Tahquitz River Estates.
The pipeline ahead is just as rich. The historic Riviera Palm Springs is being reborn under IHG with Rat Pack glamour, the expanded Sunny Dunes Road Resort is adding rooms on the city's south side, and in the wider valley DSRT Surf is bringing a surf lagoon and resort to nearby Palm Desert.
Together these properties give Palm Springs a modern hotel lineup spanning lifestyle flagships, design boutiques, wellness retreats, and resort destinations — all of it new, and all of it tracked here as it opens.
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