How to spend 48 hours in Palm Springs
For The Mail on Sunday, Tracey did 48 hours in Palm Springs — Rat Pack cocktails at the Tonga Hut's secret room, a mid-century architecture tour past Elvis's Honeymoon Hideaway and Sinatra's piano-shaped pool, and dinner at the old Al Wertheimer joint.
For The Mail on Sunday, Tracey took the two-hour drive from LAX out to Palm Springs — the notorious 1950s Rat Pack hangout that still trades on its low-slung mid-century architecture, palm-lined boulevards and stiff happy-hour cocktails. Day one hit the Tonga Hut's speakeasy Secret Room for Trader Vic's 1944 Mai Tai, brunch at the Hockney-and-Lichtenstein-hung Holiday House, and a driving tour past Elvis's pink Honeymoon Hideaway, Frank Sinatra's Twin Palms (with its piano-shaped pool) and Leo DiCaprio's desert love-nest. Day two: the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway up to alpine snow, prickly pear margaritas at the Saguaro, and cabaret at the Purple Room where the Rat Pack used to schmooze. Virgin flights to LA from £351; doubles at Los Arboles from $129.