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TSpa Resort Casino Reinvigorates with Summer Room Renovation
features a Don Wexler-designed colonnade, is scheduled to begin July 5th, and will be completed in phases, so as not to disrupt or displace guests. e overall look will compliment the hotel’s architecture, with colors and fabrics leaning toward the natural earthy tones of the surrounding desert and mountains.
Once complete, each guest room at Spa Resort Casino will be out tted with new mattresses, bedding, bed scarves, neck rolls, 42-inch at-screen televisions, carpeting, bedside tables with granite tops, black-out drapery, chairs, ottomans, and a clock radio featuring an iPhone/iPod port. e corridors will be out tted with new carpeting, drapery, wall covering, sconces, and furniture.
e architect on the project is Craig Pearson, and the interior designer is Alysha Robb, both of Pearson Architects, Inc., in Palm Desert. ey are one of several local vendors being used on the project.
Brian Hansberry, Chief Operating O cer for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, which owns and operates Spa Resort Casino, says the project is a win-win for all involved.
“We’re pleased to reinvigorate this historic hotel and put some of our local construction teams to work in the process. But the ultimate winner will be the guests, who get to enjoy staying in these beautiful rooms.”
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he hotel at Spa Resort Casino in downtown Palm Springs will undergo renovation Longtime fans of the resort will be pleased to know the quaint guest room doorbells of its guest rooms, corridors, and lobby this summer, giving guests another great that stand testament to days of lazy vacations past will still remain. e $2.1 million reason to stay at the historic resort. Work on the iconic Palm Springs hotel, which project is expected to be completed by the end of October 2011.
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