Girls Weekend in Palm Springs!
From top: Drinks at the Parker Palm Springs; the Ace Palm Springs; more Ace; the bar at the Ace; the moon over the Colony Palms Purple Palm restaurant; and the mountains behind Korakia.
Slipped on east to the healing, lovely (and hot!) desert of Palm Springs for a weekend trip with some ladies. After arriving at Casa Cody which has stellar reviews on Trip Advisor, the advance team in our group deemed it not an acceptable spot (median age of guest on rickety pool chairs: 75; guest rooms: extremely tired to be kind) to spend the weekend so we all scrambled and found rooms at the Ace Palm Springs. Which was certainly better, yet.... if you are over 25, do not plan on getting rip roaring drunk and smoking cigs in the 95+ degree heat all day by or in the pool, this is not your spot. The rooms were nice enough-- they have done a lot to gussy up the blank canvas motel rooms on a budget; the food was actually pretty good - breakfast and lunch were better than expected and the non-pregnant girls in the group enjoyed the Facial cocktails. The price is also right on but the conclusion by us 5, is that you get what you pay for and next time we're paying for the Colony Palms, Parker or Korakia. xoxo