Desert Hot Springs Resorts & Day Spas

Desert Hot Springs is a city in California that the regional tourism board calls "Spa City". The board describes many independently owned boutique hotels there whose pools are filled with mineral spring water, and says the water emerges from an underground aquifer at temperatures of up to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. A resort in town describes the drive from Palm Springs as about 15 minutes. The sources for these three statements are listed below the introduction.

This directory lists 16 places in total, and 14 of them are in Desert Hot Springs. 14 of the 14 Desert Hot Springs listings state that their water is natural mineral water, and 14 of the 15 mineral-water listings in this directory are in Desert Hot Springs. 9 of the 14 sell some kind of day pass or day spa entry. 9 are adults-only: El Morocco Inn & Spa, Hope Springs Resort, Lido Palms Resort & Spa, Mi Kasa Hot Springs, Miracle Manor Boutique Hotel & Spa, Sagewater Springs Hotel & Spa, The Spring Resort & Spa, Tuscan Springs Hotel & Spa and Two Bunch Palms. 1 publishes a clothing-optional policy, and the rest either require clothing or do not say.

Among the Desert Hot Springs listings, 5 listings publish a standalone price: the lowest is $25 and the highest is $79, and the median is $55 (n = 5). The prices we could confirm are: Sam's Family Spa (from $25), Tuscan Springs Hotel & Spa (from $50), Lido Palms Resort & Spa (from $55), Miracle Manor Boutique Hotel & Spa (from $74) and Azure Palm Hot Springs (from $79). The other 4 day-pass listings read "Check with venue" for the price.

4 listings publish a pool temperature, and together they span 87 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit: Aqua Soleil Hotel & Mineral Water Pool (88 to 104 degrees), Lido Palms Resort & Spa (99 to 103 degrees), Mi Kasa Hot Springs (87 to 115 degrees) and The Spring Resort & Spa (104 degrees). Every other listing reads "Check with venue" for temperature, so no average is given here.

Every figure on this page is counted from the same listing data that fills the list below, and it changes when the data changes. We never fill a gap with a guess. If a price, temperature or policy is not on the venue's own pages, it reads "Check with venue", and every entry links to the page we used and the date we checked it. Use the filters to narrow the list by day pass, adults-only rule, clothing policy or pickleball.