Best Western Date Tree Hotel

Clean. Great service. Spacious rooms. AND GREAT PRICE! Wonderful attention from staff, especially Esmeralda.
Will go there again with my group.

What is a total surprise! The staff was friendly and amazing. The room was huge and CLEAN! The pool and spa were clean. The property shows well. This is a hidden gem in Indio. I will stay here again.

AMAZING breakfast! Very clean and tidy l. WONDERFUL staff, in all areas. We have been coming here every year for 9 years. Baby friendly. Best breakfast we have ever had! great DVD selection too!

We had «reservations» at the Motel 6, but they hadn’t reserved a room! The only room left was a smoking room. We barely opened the door when the smell hit. Down the street we went to Best Western Date Palm & at 11 pm, Toni took great care of us with a smile! Free DVDs to watch in room, a microwave & coffee pot in room, clean and fresh room. In the morning, a full breakfast: eggs, sausage, potatoes, waffles, cereal, bagels, fruit, yogurt, even turkey bacon and soy milk! Boy am I glad we came here instead. This is a great value for the dollar. We’re switching to Best Western for the rest of the trip!

These guys were the best! 30 person group and they were extremely nice and well organized for us. The rooms were great for the very affordable prices. Aaron Segal and all the night managers were very very helpful. Definitely only staying here if I’m in the area again! They had strawberry water in the lobby!

This place is a real treasure! My husband and I visited a couple of times already! The last time was 2 months ago. Every single time we have been there the staff has been very professional yet friendly and approachable. The rooms are spacious and clean and very nicely air conditioned. The front office staff, especially Toni and Jason, have gone out of their way to make us feel at home every time we visit. They will do whatever they can to accommodate our needs. Toni is quite knowledgeable about the different activities going on in the area and is always happy to suggest a good place to visit during our stay. Two months ago we intended to stay only two nights, but ended up staying three additional nights because it was such a great experience! So much so that we are on our way back right at this moment. We are bringing our grandkids this time! They will love the huge pool and their amazing breakfast bar! I hope you get to visit with your loved ones soon. It really is an amazing place… and very affordable.

The staff here were great. I was stressing over checking in early and they handled all my concerns promptly with a smile. Breakfast was good in the morning. The hotel was nice and clean. I’d come back.

My wife and I stayed at the Best Western Date Tree in Indio, September 28 to the 30^th and I must say we feel like we found a little hidden gem in Indio! It was a last minute decision to get out of town and we weren’t looking to leave the property very much while there, this was more of a couples getaway. When we checked in, my wife was greeted by the sweetest front desk people and when she came out, told me that they made her feel so welcomed and comfortable. They even gave her extra towels for the pool and told us that it was opened 24 hours a day. Love that! Most hotel pools close at ten and I don’t know about you, but my wife and I are night owls and there’s nothing more relaxing then a midnight swim under the beautiful, desert sky. Which is exactly what we got at the Date Tree.
Oh did I mention we were traveling with our little corgi and he was also welcomed like a little guest of the hotel and we felt very comfortable the entire stay. The room they gave us was room 208 and it looked to be very recently updated, with comfortable beds (I have a bad back so a good bed is essential and I slept like a baby). It felt extremely clean and safe. There was a mini fridge, a microwave and a flat screen. They even have a wall of DVDs you can can take back to your room. We couldn’t sleep so we kept watching movies and trading them in all night. Sure the movies are a bit older, but it’s nice to have the option and not have to leave the property.
Their continental breakfast is the best I’ve had, and we usually stay at larger hotels when we visit the desert so we were pleasantly shocked at the spread. It included waffles, eggs, bagels, cream cheese, yogurt, fresh fruit, juice and delicious coffee! Seriously, we were shocked and very happy.
The staff was friendly from beginning to end and the location is on the quiet side of town. Sure there’s a train near by, but we were in building two and never heard any outside noise when in the room. The pool being open all night long is a huge bonus! You can sneak out there when no ones there and have the entire pool to yourself. They allow doggies and it’s crazy affordable. Plus they feed you?! What’s not to love? It’s our go to place to stay from now on for the fair, Coachella and family. A big thank you to Aaron, the manager who made sure our stay was perfect! Oh and the best free wifi I’ve ever had at a hotel! Seriously, easy to log in and great speed! Again, another great surprise from this little hotel. Oh and super cold air conditioning which is perfect in the desert heat!

My review is mostly for a staff member named Jacob Meyers. I originally spoke to Jacob over the phone and made my reservation with him. Jacob is very polite and helpful. He actually cares that you get the best rate. When I met him in person he was equally as helpful, nice and polite. I’ve already stayed at the best Western Date Tree Hotel a couple of times for business. The rooms are clean and nice. Not a fancy hotel but definitely perfect for what I need. The complimentary buffet is a plus. But the five stars are definitely for Jacob. He exceeded my expectations with his fantastic customer service!

A nice clean place. The staff was so nice and helpful to us. We were here for a baseball tournament and our team was put on the same floor and same corridor per request. The complimentary breakfast was good and the rooms were clean and nice. Would stay here again!

Loved this place! Rooms are spacious, impeccably clean, tastefully decorated and awesome air conditioning. The guys who run this place are top notch. Great customer service. I stayed with my 2 well behaved large dogs. The staff were friendly. Great Breakfast. Large refreshing pool. Couldn’t have been more happy. Will plan on staying here for any future travels.

Clean, Free WiFi and Breakfast and near the Interstate. Did find the time but you can rent DVDs and hit the pool. Parking ear every room but no elivator. Excersic room bust only a few machines but heck you’re on travel. Over all nice little place and will make my stop here again next time.

The outside does not do this place any justice the inside is much better! It is a little outdated but still a good place to stay! The Internet can be a little slow but who goes out of town to get in the Internet? They have free movies to watch at the front desk in your room as well as the pool is ²⁴⁄₇ with towels at the pool so you don’t need to use your room ones!

Ohhh-​kay. So we booked this hotel by mistake. Hubby was participating in the Tour de Palm Springs and somehow thought this was close by… it was actually 30 minutes away from the event.
Anyways, we stayed here during Valentine’s weekend from Friday to Sunday. When we arrived here around 8:00p (Friday traffic!!!), it was pretty dark everywhere. Coming from the I-​10, we drove a while on Indio Boulevard, which was deserted at this time.
Check-​in was easy. Our room was at the end of Building 2 on the second floor, and we were able to find parking nearby. Our room was pretty clean and spacious for us and our 2 kids (kids 12 and under stay free with parents). There was a fridge, microwave, coffee maker, iron/​ironing board, and hair dryer (a small one so may want to bring your own if you have a thick mane). Free WiFi, and the pool was open 24 hours. Vending machines were in the hallway so we were able to get extra bottles of water for the road.
Bonus 1: Complimentary breakfast every morning 6:30 — 9:30a in the main building (Medjool Room of Building 1). When we were there, there were make-​your-​own waffles (regular and blueberry batter; takes 2−½ minutes on waffle maker), eggs, sausages, potatoes, biscuits with gravy, yogurt (and granola?), hard boiled eggs… Also coffee, apple juice, orange juice, and passion guava juice. It wasn’t the best, but it sure made our mornings a lot easier.
Bonus 2: Free DVD rental in the main building near the lobby. Just grab the case of the movie that you want to watch, take it to the front desk, and the staff will give you the disk. Back at the room, put the disk in the DVD player, change the line on the TV, and voila, it’s easy peasy family movie night. Not a huge selection, but we found a family movie that we all enjoyed.
Although the location isn’t in the best area (pretty much nothing to do nearby and shady night time area further down Indio), it was completely booked by Saturday. Friendly staff, and overall good experience for a Best Western.

I wrote a review for this perfect stopover/​road trip hotel on Facebook, intending to cut and paste to Unilocal when I landed in New York after a no-​internet flight. But I didn’t and can’t find it, so this is an abbreviated version of my big thumbs up for the best-​ranked hotel in Indio (or whatever the very nice manager told me about the Trip Advisor rating). I know, probably not a crowded field, Indio. But this really is a terrific Best Western with perfect service at a low price.
Since I occasionally incur charges of snobbery, I make no attempt to conceal my biases and preferences, so will begin by saying that when I told people I was staying in Indio one night en route to Scottsdale for the annual Thanksgiving week at my boyfriend’s parents, friends at every tax bracket responded thus: «Indio? What the hell are you doing there? Indio is the worst.»
Perhaps because I was thus prepared, I didn’t find Indio any worse than 90% of the desert. I don’t like desert. I am a water girl who has never lived more than 5 minutes from the Pacific or Long Island Sound (Pacific Palisades, New Haven, Santa Barbara, Manhattan’s Upper East Side).
But Indio is okay, other than the whole no water and hot-​as-​hell problem. And that’s true of affluent areas of Palm Desert and Indian Wells too.
We stopped on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, arriving very late (1AM). The hotel is dog-​friendly and my de facto in-​laws stay there whenever they drive to Santa Barbara or LA from Scottsdale. Now I know why.
The rooms are large and immaculate. The pool is enormous, like an oddly-​shaped Olympic pool or one of those sprawling Caribbean pools at an all-​inclusive resort. They also have a jacuzzi. I left my goggles at home and could smell the chlorine from the chaise lounges at which I drank coffee before my boyfriend and son arose, so I didn’t go in. But what a beautiful pool. And while it’s by the freeway, you do see the mountains in the distance and quite a lot of palm trees. If you’re from a flat prairie place like Champaign-​Urbana, this will seem picturesque.
The hotel was crowded: a girls’ middle school field hockey tournament takes place every Thanksgiving week and 50 or so girls and chaperones were in from Boston and surrounding areas. There were also people from Duluth on vacation. Everyone was so friendly and since I enjoy talking to people from different places, I enjoyed my morning by the pool. If you’re from Duluth, where it is –20, Indio is paradise. And it’s not far from Palm Springs, so if you’re going to hang out there spending money, there’s no reason not to save on the hotel and stay here.
The AAA rate was 90 plus 10 for the dog. If your dog hates other canines, this may not be the place for you. But if you have a friendly dog and like to be around other four-​legged creatures with wagging tails, you’ll be in dog heaven.
When my boyfriend’s parents said that they served breakfast, I expected the typical Continental fare (dry cereal, yogurt, an inedible banana and subpar coffee). I was therefore surprised to find good eggs, bacon, sausage (well the pork products looked good but I don’t eat any pork served at breakfast), coffee, donuts, toast, waffles, hardboiled eggs and waffles.
Finally, the service is beyond belief. I had two pair of Persol sunglasses with me. Instead of leaving them in the glove compartment, I decided to bring both to the room. When I arose, I could not find the vintage blue pair I got secondhand. The manager sent someone to help me look and directed another employee to scour the grounds.
It turns out that I had taken the glasses out of the car and *set them on the windshield*! Anyone who knows me will not be surprised by this. My boyfriend says I wander through life in a haze of revolving possessions. At any given moment, at least three things are AWOL but 95% of the time I find the earring/​credit card/​shoe/​glasses/​keys.
I will be back next Thanksgiving as it’s so much nicer to break up the 8 or 9 hour drive. On the way back, we’re usually eager to get home and just stop at Redlands’ Noodle 1 2 3.
My only quibble: the pool is 86 or 87 degrees. That’s not a pool. It’s a bathtub. Borderline sadistic to dangle the prospect of a swim in so exceptional a pool in the unlikeliest of places before a serious swimmer. I knew it was too good to be true, but I will certainly soak my road-​trip weary limbs in the jacuzzi this November!

Don’t judge a book by its cover.
I just stayed here this past weekend because I was a Vendor at the Tamale Festival. At first glance, the outside didn’t look too great, but I kept my fingers crossed. Check in was nice and smooth. They had Free dates, Free fresh fruit and Spa water at the front desk which was a nice touch. A Good selection of DVDs, that you can borrow and take back to your room for Free. Once we got to our room, we were amazed. The setup was really nice. Our room had a nice LG TV and LG Blu-​ray Player. 2 nice Queens Beds. An iHome clock radio with a Lighting connection for your iPhone, with optional USB connection as well. A microwave and mini frig as I requested. A little coffee maker. And the bathroom was Very Nice. Marble counter tops and marble in the shower. And the shower head was nice and high. The staff was nice and friendly as well. One other great thing was their continental breakfast. Which consisted of, making your own waffles, eggs, bacon or sausage depending on the day, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, English muffins, bagels, cold or hot cereal, yogurt, hard boiled eggs, orange apple and cranberry juice, and of course coffee. So overall it was a great place to stay. Probably one of the best places to stay if you’re heading down to Indio, especially if you’re near or on Indio Boulevard.
And I almost forgot, there pool is open 24 hours.
I would definitely stay here again.

For the money, this hotel can’t be beat. It is not fancy or plush. But it is clean and well kept and the staff are excellent. They are attentive and do a fantastic job on a low budget. Their customer service is great and they work hard to meet you needs. We always stay there on our drives between Central California and the Phoenix area. I highly recommend this as a great low budget place to stay.

The best.
Friendly, courteous staff. Beautifully landscaped surroundings with an amazing pool. Dog friendly. A really comfortable place to stay.

This is by far one of the cleanest & friendliest places that I have ever stayed. I don’t usually write reviews but the service I received here shall not go unrewarded.
Jacob at the front desk, who was quick to offer help, a quick chat, & a smile.
Toni (I believe I got that right) & Peter were also wonderful & went the extra mile to help find my friend’s debit card that she thought was lost for good.
And the rest of the staff & crew at this Best Western: thank you for putting the «friend» back in friendly customer service! We will definitely stay here for Coachella 2015!

I really like the free breakfast. They give you a bunch of vouchers for the amount of days you are staying. I wouldn’t call it a continental breakfast either. You make your own waffleswith the waffle thingy. Regular or banana nut.
Scrambled eggs with ham. Cooked eggs with or without the yolk. Biscuits and gravy tasted kinda weird. Pastries, bagels, yogurt, fresh fruits, hard boiled eggs, ice tea, lemmon aid, all types of juices on tap and coffee.
Cant beat that with a stick. Unless your late! Breakfast ends at 9:30 so be there or be square.
One of the two washers broke while doing our laundry so one hour turned into two hours of doing laundry. No big deal. Main thing we got our laundry done.
I just love coming back to the hotel and everything is cleaned and the beds are made just spoils the shirt out of me. Crashing with the A/​C on at 69 degrees is awesome. I’m taking advantage of this A/​C while I can. Definitely would stay here again. Absolutely no signs of bed bugs either :)