Villa Royale

The hotel was charming, authentically palm springs and aesthetically gorgeous. With friendly and helpful staff and a great location, we are happy that we stayed there. The room was clean, stunning and mid century, fitting well in Palm Springs. It had tonnes of great facilities, like a coffee machine, bluetooth speaker, hairdryer and mini fridge. The cocktails are delicious, and fairly priced at happy hour, however the rest of the bar is quite expensive during the rest of the day ($8 for a small beer). Which is a shame, as if it was cheaper I could have stayed round the pool all day - you're not allowed to bring your own drinks to the pool, even if it's a soft drink.

Unfortunately breakfast was extremely poor and really let the hotel down, when booking it says that breakfast comes with the nights stay. In reality what you get is day old hard croissants, some fruit (and fruit flies) and a few boiled eggs. Filter coffee was also available but only green tea, no breakfast tea anywhere. I couldn't even stretch to call it a continental breakfast, it was really bad. Other small things were, the cleaner wouldn't service the room everyday, unless you asked her too (she was very grumpy when you did ask her) and there was only 2 plug outlets in the whole room, meaning I had to charge my phone by the coffee machine every night (not the end of the world I know, but annoying too!). Lastly we we're notified of a completely unexpected fee of $35 dollars a night resort fee when we checked in, which wasn't mentioned anywhere on booking.com. As we we're staying 5 nights, this was a lot of money that wasn't expected. Thankfully when we mentioned this to reception they removed the fee as we had booked on booking.com.