travel42 Hotel Review: Parker Palm Springs

Parker Palm Springs travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located 4 miles southeast of the center of town, in a private compound, this place has a long and unusual history as a hotel. It started out as the first Holiday Inn in California before it became Gene Autry's Ocotillo Lodge, a colorful cowboy concoction aimed at Lone Ranger wannabes. A decade or so later, under the direction of Givenchy, it became a destination spa; Wheel of Fortune creator Merv Griffin later got hold of it and turned it into a Robin-L...