The Return Of Travel

Steal Their Vacations In an effort to streamline the stressful process of trip planning (now that we’re able to travel again), we spoke to five people who have taken particularly wonderful, well-thought-out vacations and had them walk us through their day-by-day (and in some cases, hour-by-hour) itineraries.

- Louis Cheslaw, Tembe Denton-Hurst, Margaret Rhodes, and Mackenzie Wagoner

Roanne Adams’s

40th-Birthday

Weekend in Palm Springs (With 25 Friends)

In April, Roanne Adams—who runs the creative studio RoAndCo—threw a (vaccinated) birthday party in the desert.

DAY 1 YOU DON’T HAVE TO STAY AT THE ACE ➽

My husband and I went to Palm Springs a bunch this past year, when we couldn’t travel by air, and we stayed in several Airbnbs until we decided to buy a house to rent out. This time, we wanted to get a big group of old friends together as a coming-out again party. We stayed with friends at an Airbnb, the Hey Casita (from $614 a night), that sleeps eight people and is so well designed—not kitschy like some other Palm Springs houses. And we used our under-construction house as an event space. There’s this great site, Boutique Homes, that lists more midcentury-modern rentals and event venues for bigger groups, searchable by architect. Just make sure you rent a house with a pool. Our other friends stayed at the Ingleside Inn (200 W. Ramon Rd.; from $237 a night), an Old Hollywood Spanish Colonial–revival hotel that was built in 1922. It’s glamorous but very humble—not showy and not as loud as the Ace Hotel.

LEAVE L.A. MIDDAY ➽

If you’re driving from Los Angeles, leave in the middle of the day. You want to avoid the 4 p.m. Friday rush, which adds an hour or more onto what’s normally an easy drive of an hour and 45 minutes. New Yorkers can fly direct to Palm Springs International Airport.

GET A STEAK AND A MARTINI ➽