4 Palm Springs Hotels With Totally Unique Rooms

When the keycard light flashes green, vacation mode clicks on. Behind that hotel room door, you’re looking for the comforts that set the tone: the plush bed, the plump pillows, the shampoo that smells like a spa day.

A satisfying stay is easy to come by in Palm Springs. A spectacular one starts with a room that feels like part of the experience — a space that nods to history, commits to a theme, or features a surprising design detail that leaves you talking long after checkout.

Here are four overnight escapes that do just that. Enjoy your singular stay.

Flower Power Suite

Trixie Motel

Drag queen Trixie Mattel, of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame, former partner David Silver, and designer Dani Dazey transformed the Coral Sands Inn into the pretty-in-pink Trixie Motel seen on her Discovery+ renovation series. Each of the motel’s seven themed rooms is a maximalist daydream, but the Flower Power Suite is pure 1970s sunshine. Daisy blooms cascade across wallpaper, brick, and bedding in bright pink, lime, orange, and purple. Even the headboard is petal-shaped. Groovy. 

Artist Studio

Korakia Pensione

The Moroccan-meets-Mediterranean hideaway in the Historic Tennis Club neighborhood has been attracting artists since Scottish painter Gordon Coutts built it in the 1920s. Channel the creative energy of those who came before in the Artist Studio, where Winston Churchill reportedly stayed and painted in the hotel’s first decade. Tiled steps lead to an airy atelier with antique furnishings and large picture windows that frame the mountain view — the perfect subject when you sit at the provided wooden painter’s easel. 

Le Rêve

Dive Palm Springs

All 13 rooms at the Dive Palm Springs channel the south of France with rattan textures, whitewashed walls, and modern pops of color. But Le Rêve (French for “The Dream”) is the dreamiest, defined by a floral Christian Lacroix ceiling mural and custom wallpaper. Brass accents, a smoked glass two-way mirror, and gilded picture frames make this room a bit more ornate than the others. 

Rock Room

The Willows

Once a private estate that hosted Albert Einstein, The Willows is one of Palm Springs’ oldest structures. You can book the Einstein Room, where the physicist actually slept, and that room stands out for the brilliant IQ vibes alone. But the real treasure is the Rock Room, which is literally built into Mount San Jacinto. A chunk of the mountain’s granite rock takes center stage in the bathroom, where it juts through the glass window and into the shower. It’s intimate, elemental, and unlike any room you’ve stayed in before.