Work, Then Play
From desk to desert, Palm Springs makes both better.
The Best Palm Springs Stay for Remote Work
There was a time when “working on vacation” sounded like a terrible idea. Then came remote work. Flexible schedules. Workations. Zoom calls from places where the view outside the window looks significantly better than the office parking lot.
Suddenly, the question isn’t necessarily work or vacation? It can be: Why not work from somewhere you actually want to be?
And Palm Springs makes a pretty convincing argument.
Why work remotely from Palm Springs?
Palm Springs has a combination that can be hard to find in a work-from-anywhere destination: plenty to do, but absolutely no pressure to do it all.
Before work, you can hike beneath the San Jacinto Mountains. At lunch, you can swim. When the laptop closes, there are restaurants, patios, galleries, vintage shops, spas, golf courses, and some of the most celebrated midcentury modern architecture in the country waiting for you. Or you can do none of those things and simply sit outside.
That works, too.
Greater Palm Springs has become increasingly welcoming to remote workers, with coworking spaces, coffee shops, libraries, and other places designed to make working away from home easier. But sometimes the best remote-work amenity is not having to leave home in the first place.
First rule of the workation: get a real workspace.
Working remotely from Palm Springs sounds glamorous until your “office” turns out to be a barstool, your second monitor is nonexistent, and your partner is making lunch three feet from your quarterly budget meeting.
A real workspace matters.
At The Goldie Collection, there’s a dedicated private office rather than a desk squeezed into a bedroom or dining area. It includes a monitor, docking station, printer, and proper desk chair, so you can arrive with your laptop instead of rebuilding your home office from scratch.
And because the office is its own space, you can close the door.
That little detail gets more important somewhere around your third Zoom call.
Current workation guidance consistently recommends looking for accommodations with an actual desk, quiet workspace, and reliable equipment rather than assuming a pretty hotel room will function as an office.
About that Wi-Fi...
A pool is wonderful. But a pool will not save you when your screen freezes while you’re presenting.
For anyone planning to work remotely while traveling, internet speed belongs near the top of the checklist. The Goldie Collection offers internet speeds up to 1,000 Mbps, giving you the connectivity needed for video calls, cloud-based work, streaming, and the various other things our laptops insist on doing all day.
Fast internet also makes an extended stay considerably easier when more than one person is working, streaming, or connected at the same time. Because “Sorry, I think you froze” is much less charming after the fourth time.
Privacy might be the most underrated remote-work perk.
Coffee shops are great when you want to work from a coffee shop. They’re less great when you need to discuss confidential information, take back-to-back calls, or spend six hours concentrating.
Working from a private home gives you control over your surroundings in a way a lobby, shared coworking space, or hotel room often can’t. Public workspaces can also introduce privacy and security considerations that don’t exist to the same degree in your own dedicated space.
At The Goldie Collection, one person can be on a call in the office while someone else is making lunch, reading outside, watching TV, or doing the vastly more sensible thing and floating in the pool.
Work separately. Vacation together. Everybody wins.
The midday swim is a feature, not a bug.
One of the pleasures of working from somewhere else is realizing that breaks don’t have to look exactly like they do at home.
Ten free minutes? Step outside. Long lunch? Take a swim in your private heated pool. Call ended early? Spa.
And when the workday is officially done, there’s no commute separating “working in Palm Springs” from “being in Palm Springs.” You’re already there.
That proximity between work and genuine downtime is part of what makes workations attractive in the first place. Done well, they can let travelers extend a trip without burning through an equal number of vacation days. The trick is creating enough separation between working time and everything else so neither takes over.
A door on the office helps. So does a pool outside it.
Stay long enough to develop a routine.
This may be the biggest argument for working remotely from Palm Springs instead of simply vacationing here.
When every day is a vacation day, there can be pressure to maximize every minute. Breakfast place! Hike! Architecture tour! Pool! Shopping! Dinner! Drinks! An extended stay changes the pace. You can work Tuesday because you’re still going to be here Saturday.
You can try one restaurant tonight and another next week. Take a walk through the Uptown Design District after work instead of cramming it into an itinerary. Head to the Indian Canyons one morning and leave another trail for another day. Palm Springs offers more than 170 miles of hiking trails across city trails, the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, and Mount San Jacinto State Park, so there’s no need to conquer the desert before checkout.
That’s when a destination begins to feel less like somewhere you’re visiting and more like somewhere you’re living.
Your 9-to-5 can have a much better 5-to-9.
Clock out and Palm Springs takes over.
The city’s Uptown Design District brings together restaurants, art galleries, vintage furniture stores, boutiques, and design showrooms along North Palm Canyon Drive. Palm Springs is also internationally known for its concentration of midcentury modern architecture, which means even an after-work drive can turn into an unofficial architecture tour.
Prefer something restorative? Palm Springs has a long-established wellness culture shaped by its desert setting, with hiking, spas, yoga, and outdoor activities all part of the mix.
Or drive downtown for a wellness-focused dinner.
Or don’t.
Because one perk of having a chef’s kitchen, outdoor dining space, grill, and your own cozy fire fit is that staying home can feel like a pretty good evening plan.
A Few Rules for a Better Palm Springs Workation
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“Wi-Fi included” and “ready for eight video calls” are not the same thing.
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Your brain will appreciate having somewhere to leave work at the end of the day.
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Schedule the hike. Book dinner. Block your calendar for lunch by the pool. Otherwise, you’ve simply moved your workday to a different ZIP code.
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Work takes up time. A longer stay means you can actually experience Palm Springs without treating every free hour like a race.
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Especially if you’re crossing state or international borders, make sure your company permits you to work from your destination and understand any security, tax, or compliance requirements that apply.
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Some work-from-anywhere requirements are less technical than others.
So, is Palm Springs good for remote work?
Very.
Palm Springs combines strong remote-work infrastructure with something equally important: a reason to close the laptop when the work is finished. You can spend the morning being productive and the rest of the day hiking, swimming, dining, exploring architecture, shopping, or simply enjoying the desert.
At The Goldie Collection, the equation gets even easier: a private dedicated office, internet speeds up to 1,000 Mbps, a full kitchen, laundry, plenty of room to settle in, and a private pool and spa waiting outside.
You can work from anywhere.
You might as well like where you’re working.
