Like my Kimpton Rowan Palm Springs stay review, I visited this property in January as well. On that trip, I only briefly checked out these flagship hotels from the two hotel groups.

Hotel Overview

The hotel is not actually in Palm Springs proper. It is already over in Cathedral City, about a 15- to 20-minute drive from either downtown Palm Springs or Palm Springs Airport (PSP).

The hotel has 244 rooms in total, including three types of suites. Standard rooms are 450 sq ft, while suites range from 850-1700 sq ft.

The hotel has two separate pools, one large and one small: Air Pool and Vista Pool.

There is also a spa and a fitness center.

In addition to In Room Dining, the hotel has two restaurants and two bars: STATE FARE BAR & KITCHEN, THE EDGE STEAKHOUSE, and AIR POOL BAR.

Redeeming Points

This hotel is a Marriott Cat 7 property. Standard pricing is now 60,000 points, with Off Peak at 50,000 points and Peak at 70,000 points. With Pointsaver, pricing is 55,000/45,000/65,000.

I used the annual 50,000-point free night certificate from my Chase Ritz Carlton card to book the base room.

Cash rates are usually around $300-400, and can reach about $700 during peak periods. Whether or not it is worth going out of your way to stay here is another question, but based on the room rates, redeeming 50,000 points is better value than paying cash.

The hotel charges a $40 per night resort fee. You have to pay it whether you book with cash or points, but the included benefits actually looked pretty decent. Since I only stayed one night, though, I did not get to use any of them.

Parking is not included in the resort fee and costs $32 per night. Personally, I think any parking charge over $15 a night is basically robbery.

Check-in

After leaving the main road, you have to keep driving up a small hill, and the hotel sits right at the top.

Once you enter and walk a few steps inside, the front desk is on the right. Across from it are the fireplace and lounge area. The whole check-in area felt a bit cramped.

It is a bit of a walk to the elevators. The hallway is not especially wide, but for some reason it felt much more open than the front desk area, and there is also a fairly large sitting area.

Room

As you enter, the closet is on the right and the bathroom is on the left.

The bathroom did not really have any major flaws, but there was not much to love either. The space was decent enough. The bedroom was perfectly standard.

Basically every room has a balcony, which is a nice touch and a good place to sit for a while.

In Room Dining was much more expensive than eating outside the hotel.

See the full menu below ↓

Gym and Spa

The gym and spa are not in the main building. They are located on the ground floor of the building in the southeast corner of the resort and share one entrance, with the spa on the left and the gym on the right. The gym had bottled water and apples. The bottle caps had already been loosened, which was thoughtful, though I did wonder whether that might be a hygiene risk.

The rental bikes included in the resort fee are also here.

Pool

It was just too sunny, so I did not go out of my way to take pool photos. Here are some overhead shots instead, haha.

This is the smaller Vista Pool as seen from the balcony. The nighttime city light view is really just the glow of suburban and rural America.

Restaurant

I went out to local restaurants for both dinner and brunch, so I did not try the hotel restaurants. Here are the official photos. If you want the best view, THE EDGE STEAKHOUSE is clearly the one to pick, since it overlooks the scenery below.

Bottom Line

This is a typical high-category American resort with lots of space, but honestly there was not much that impressed me. I actually preferred Dove Mountain, where I previously stayed for 35,000 points at the time (it is now cat 6).

If you have a free night certificate that you cannot easily use in Southern California, this could be worth trying. Otherwise, I would not especially recommend it.