Catalina Spa & RV Resort, Desert Hot Springs, Ca

Feb 23     Santee - Desert Hot Springs, Ca     146 miles    3 hours

It was a very nice, clear day to make our drive to Desert Hot Springs. We enjoyed the drive, very scenic and just nice to be moving to hopefully better weather.

The snow capped mountain views are spectacular

We booked 1 week at Catalina Spa & RV Resort. Rate is $200 per week, which is pretty good. We've never been to this RV Resort but decided to try it out. There's lots of activities here. There's 2 pool areas with hot tubs, all mineral springs so very nice and inviting. The pickleball courts are very nice here. They play every morning and the people are pretty friendly. The laundry is pretty cheap, $1.75 to wash and $1.50 to dry.

The sites are pretty decent. We were at a site with 30 amp, a little bit more congested are than 50 amp. Still a pretty good site.

Feb 23 - Mar 02

This past week was pretty relaxing. We didn't do too much. We played pickleball every morning, and spent a lot of time at the pools. It's always windy in this area and the weather has been pretty chilly but no rain. The temperature was always between 40's and 60's.

Pickleball courts are nice

We're pretty close to everything here. One day we went to Agua Caliente Casino and tried their buffet and gambled a little. Buffet was kind of junk and we lost some money so that wasn't a good outing.

I went to Glossy's and bought a new swim suit. Nice shop and all swim suits for $29.99. We've been to Trader Joes, and a mexican market called Cardenas. They make fresh tortilla there and its so good.

We also went window shopping at Holland RV. They have Newmars there. These are high end coaches and Joe wanted to check them out. Of course we found one that we really liked. The Ventana is about 34' and got almost everything we want. If only we had an extra $300,000 lying around.

The lower pool area

The hot tub is huge

We really enjoyed our stay here at Catalina Spa & RV Resort. The pickleball gang was fun to play with and on Friday we participated in the round-robin tournament play. We didn't win but was lots of fun. We actually played pickleball 8 days straight! That's a record for us. The pools are nice and relaxing, the only thing is, there's kids here so they hang out at the pools a lot.

The upper pool and hot tub area

We're moving to another RV Resort tomorrow, just about a mile from here.