Living Waters, Palm Desert California - February, 2017
While in
Palm Springs we decided to do a day trip to experience “the
waters”. We elected to visit Living Waters Spa and Hotel in
Palm Desert, CA.
Living
Waters is an old motel located above Palm Desert. It is at
1650 foot elevation so it is well above the base desert.
Unfortunately the day we visited there were VERY strong
winds and Living Waters is not well set up for that. I don’t
know if the winds are normal or not, but they definitely
spoiled our trip.
Living
Waters has eight hotel rooms (a ninth was used for massages,
I don’t know if it can be reserved as a hotel room) plus
some condos across the street. The rooms had fine looking
beds (which I am told by other guests are very comfortable
but I did not try them myself) and most have a small
kitchenette. There is also a lunch room with a small
refrigerator and tables for day guests. The rooms surround a
medium size hot tub and a small pool. The hot tub and pool
are fed by an underground thermal source and the hot tub is
supposedly kept at 104 degrees with the pool in the mid 90s.
I don’t know if it was the wind or what, but if the hot tub
hit 90 I would be shocked and the pool was at best in the
80s.
The wind
was very strong and whipped around the entire courtyard.
There were a few places where the wind was not as strong,
but for the most part it was very strong. The wind made it
very cold, even in the sun.
Living
waters is clothing optional but everyone was nude, including
some of the staff. There were only four couples and we were
the only ones on a day pass.
We left
just after noon and it was a good thing we did since the
roads back to Palm Springs were closed later in the
afternoon due to blowing sand.