Long-haul travel is slowly but surely opening back up to us. It s great news, but we like to think that the best part of traveling during summer isn t that two-week trip you planned for a year, but the smaller, closer-to-home trips that allow you to turn weekend breaks into mini vacations, from Memorial Day through September. A host of new and easy-to-reach resorts and retreats across the U.S. are giving us plenty of reason to be anywhere but home all summer long, whether it s to kayak in North Carolina or sit by a pool in Palm Springs. Here, a few favorites to book now.
May 5, 2021 |
The iconic Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs, originally built in the 1930s, has a lively past and colorful history as a popular destination for Hollywood elite including Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, mobsters, film producers, and politicians. The hotel has now been reimagined by renowned designer and hotelier Steve Hermann through a multimillion-dollar renovation, transforming it into a modern desert paradise.
“The Colony Palms Hotel was originally built as the Colonial House by Las Vegas casino owner and Purple gang member Al Wertheimer,” says Hermann. “The hotel began receiving guests in 1936, and had a downstairs speakeasy and brothel. It was renamed Howard Manor in the late 1940s, when Robert and Andrea Leeds Howard (the owners of racing horse Seabiscut) took possession. Boxing champion Jack Dempsey was also an owner. For the next 25 years, the hotel was a haven for young Hollywood in Palm Springs.”