Vista Las Palmas

Arrive is the kind of place you dream about when you dream of Palm Springs. There's a bocce court, bikes to cruise around town, poolside cabanas for day, and firepits for night. Service is thorough but relaxed (you can request anything you need via text). And the building's industrial-cool steel, wood, and concrete features are starkly dramatic against the dry, sandy desert backdrop.

As the name suggests, it’s not just ice cream that’s sold here. Aside from the horchata, sweet corn, Mexican chocolate, and (our personal favorite) Coachella Valley date scoops, there are shelves lined with kitschy gifts. The store, in the lobby of the Arrive hotel, is an instant pick-me-up of cacti-covered coffee mugs, coloring pencils, and flamingo pool floats.