Palm Springs & Desert Hotels
Colony Palms Hotel
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572 N Indian Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Tel. (800) 557-2187, (760) 969-1800
info@colonypalmshotel.com
If you're not careful these days, you can fall victim to a mind-altering infection. I call it the Price Perception Plague. It has already made consumers of wine, fine art, spa treatments and designer fashion think a high price equals great quality. I found the latest outbreak at the 56-room Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs.
A room here can cost $300 a night, a rate that usually suggests high levels of staffing as well as designer surroundings. Alhough the 10-month-old Colony Palms is quite beautiful and a welcome addition to the desert city, the price is unwarranted, at least based on my January stay.
For that money, I expect (but didn't find) valet parking, a bellman, a concierge, evening turndown service and food service in the room, the pool and the bar. I also expect service that can address guests who are outside the hotel's apparent target market: rich, childless travelers.
Fresh from a $16-million renovation, the hotel joins the Parker Palm Springs and the Viceroy Palm Springs as recently rehabbed upscale properties that are giving the resort city a fresh appeal. Rooms can cost $209 to $1,099, plus an $18 daily resort fee, which puts the Colony Palms on the high end of local lodging. (More local competition is coming as a Mondrian, a Hard Rock Hotel and a Westin are expected to open within a couple of years.)
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