SperlingViews - Desert_Hot_Springs, California

We live adjacent to the town of Desert Hot Springs. The Coachella Valley has 7 towns, the most famous being Palm Springs. Its a 2 hour drive to Los Angeles. We have approximately 350 sunny days, less than 5 inches of rain, triple digit temps from June to September. The down side is the wind where we live. Wind generator farms are to the west of us, for a reason. If you like it hot and dry, this is the place to be.[read more...]

Desert Hot Springs was once called Spa City and has world famous mineral waters....we stayed one year at the Miracle Springs resort it was cool....the waters here are world famous.....lots of asians and europeans....We spent an anniversary at the famous Two Buch Palms resort vey expensive but gorgeous....the opening scene in The Player( Altman film) was filmed there ...this resort was considered one of the best in the world for many years ...it is incredible...people walk around in fluffy bathrobes even in the dining room....like in European spas....the downtown areas are not great but there are great restaurants... Capri for Italian ...very good.....the wtares of this city are very hot and vey high in mineral content too...they have award winning drinking water from the tap....we went twice to the local museum...Cabot's Museum and we love it ...very funky.....we hear that We Care is THE PLACE to go...have not tried it...[read more...]

My wife and two girls stopped here for the night on our way back to Arizona and stayed at a fairly nice hotel. When we went to go eat dinner at a local fast food joint we were baraged with requests for change, meth-heads, and alcoholics. I could not believe the majority of the people we saw were either strung out, dirty, or peddlers. I will never visit this city again.[read more...]