Spa Hotel And Casino In Palm Springs Ca
Casino Resort And Spa In Palm Springs Ca
Spa Hotel And Casino In Palm Springs Ca

Welcome to Sunstone Spa

Sunstone Spa is open for Hair, Nails, Massage, Facials (except Sunstone Signature), Waxing - Body (no face), Day Pass with Halotherapy session, Spa Boutique shopping and Cabana rentals only.

Spa Resort Casino - Palm Springs 33.823274, -116.54541 100 N. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, United States, Palm Springs, California, United States, 92262 show map. Located on Indian Canyon Drive in Palm Springs is the Spa Resort Casino Palm Springs. It’s only a quick 10-minute walk from the center of the city. Guests of the hotel are close to attractions like the Palm Springs Air Museum and tons of other things to do. This hotel has 228 rooms that are all non-smoking.

Spa Services and Cabana rentals will be by appointment only.

To make an appointment please call: 760.202.2121

Hours: Daily 10 AM - 6 PM

Hair and nails - We are offering our full menu of services. Masks are required for the entirety of service and spa usage.

Massages – Offering two unique custom massages to meet the guest’s preference and need with varying style for best results. Guest must wear mask for the entirety of the service and spa usage. Services - 40 minute Massage $120 or 60 minute Massage $145

The amenities during the spa service include the locker, shower, grounding relaxation room, coed area with specialty snacks and the spa private pool and cabana whirlpool.

Recipient of the prestigiousForbes Travel GuideFive-Star award, this luxurious 10,500 square-foot spa located in the heart of Southern California’s greater Palm Springs area features a fitness center and well-appointed treatment rooms.

Limited Spa Treatments and the Fitness Center are temporarily closed. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Reminiscent of the sun, the Sunstone is believed to bring life, positive energy, and abundance to those fortunate enough to carry it.

At Sunstone, the Spa at Agua Caliente, we gain inspiration from the positive and healing energy of this iridescent stone. Sunstone is your place to unwind, reconnect, and renew.

Enjoy a variety of services including both traditional and special seasonal massage and skin treatments, full-service hair and nail salons, eucalyptus steam, dry sauna, whirlpool, private outdoor swimming pool, luxury spa cabanas, and so much more.

Hot Springs and Bathhouses
The Spa Casino and Resort
Palm Springs, CA

The recent successes and future plans of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians rely on the Tribe’s steadfast belief in something bigger.

For more than 2,000 years, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has viewed the natural hot springs located below the present day hotel at Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs to be a place of power and healing.

However, it was not until a United States government survey in 1853 that the spring took on new meaning — as a place for tourism and profit, based on the healing properties of the waters and the area’s dry desert air. What they the Tribe didn’t know then was that the healing waters would also prove to be the key to their economic success.

In the late 1880s, the first of three bathhouses was built, drawing visitors from far and wide to soothe their ailments in the natural mineral waters. Over the next 100 years, the Tribe would lease and sometimes manage the property, as it grew from a dusty spring-fed stream into a gleaming Hollywood hangout.

The late 1950s marked the start of the Agua Caliente Tribe’s push for more control and flexibility in the use of their lands for profit. In 1959, a tenacious, all-woman Tribal Council successfully lobbied Congress to allow the Tribe and its members to grant long-term leases, up to 99 years.

The Spa was the Tribe’s first long term lease and opened on January 21, 1960. It was built by a group of investors called the Palm Springs Spa, Inc., led by its President, developer Samuel Banowit. The 30,000-square-foot Spa cost $2,000,000 to build and includes 36 mineral tubs, 23 massage/treatment rooms and two outdoor mineral pools. The original cost of a bath was $3.00; a massage was $5.00. The Spa Hotel opened three years later, in 1963.

In 1993, after creating an 11-member development authority and obtaining a loan from the Bureau of Indian affairs, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians purchased the hotel for $9 million. Two years later, they opened a modest “casino” which was little more than a tent with 200 slot machines and 12 gaming tables. It was the start of Agua Caliente’s booming casino business.

Today, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians owns and operates two casino-resort properties: Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs and Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa in Rancho Mirage. The Tribe also owns and operates the Indian Canyons Golf Resort and the Tahquitz and Indian Canyons Hiking Trails in Palm Springs.

An old photo of The Spa and Hotel. While the landscaping has changed, The Spa's signature colonnade remains.

The Spa at Spa Resort Casino still has a deep connection to the past with a full-service salon and spa that is a sanctuary for the mind, body and soul. The Spa’s signature experience the “Taking of the Waters” featuring a contemporary take on what’s drawn millions of visitors to this spa over the past 50 years—a dip in the natural hot spring waters.

Taking of the Waters offers a journey for the senses in four therapeutic stages. Steam, sauna and eucalyptus inhalation are designed to clear the body and mind of toxins. The final stage—a private soak in our mineral springs—will send you drifting into serenity.

TIMELINE EXCERPTS FROM HISTORICAL TEXTS: (From Agua Caliente Cultural Museum)

Bathhouse #1 Built: Late 1880s (1888 or 1889)

“Palm Springs was so different than what it has become in the 1990s that it is difficult to envision: a Cahuilla community of some 70 people housed in nine dwellings clustering near the hot springs, which they were allowed to use only certain hours of the day; not more than a dozen homes of non-Indians along a dusty desert road where Indian Canyon Avenue runs now; Mrs. Murray’s hotel, and a rustic building over the hot springs where her guests, mostly tubercular, could bathe.” (Source: Tahquitz Report)

“On May 30, 1889, Elizabeth Murray signed the first lease for the use of the springs. This lease required the Murrays to make improvements to the site, including a separate bathing compartment for the Cahuilla, and to pay an annual rental of $150. In exchange for this income, and the improvements, the Cahuilla agreed to curtail their use of the springs, though they did “reserve the right to bathe in the boil or spring spout at any time in the morning until 7 o’clock, and exclusively between the hours of 12M and 1 o’clock P. M.” This lease would run for three years, expiring in 1892.” (Source: Evolving Ecoscape)

“Just across the street, Dr. Murray and wife have a small hotel that is used as a health resort. This is seven miles across the dreary desert from a small station on the Southern Pacific Railroad, called Seven Palms. There are no people living there but the station employees; it is about twenty or twentyfive miles to Banning, the first village of any importance. Dr. Murray and wife have had a three years lease of this spring, for which they have paid $500. The Indians are allowed to bathe at reasonable hours. We do not believe the Murrays have realized one-half the rent they have paid from the baths. They desire to renew their lease at one hundred dollars a year, when it expires. Their proposition is transmitted herewith and marked Exhibit E. The whites, as well as the Indians, ought to have such benefit as may come to them from the use of these waters. We recommend that the proposition of the Murrays be accepted, under suitable rules and regulations, that will secure to the Indians, as well as the whites, bathing facilities.” (Source: Mission Indian Commission document, 1891) – note: assuming that the bathhouse was built the same year as the first lease was signed, this agrees with “1888” as first bathhouse year

“At the end of 1902, the Indians, desperate for more water and a

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