Sam's Family Spa

What a gem! Loved soaking in those pools. Nice staff, super accommodating, decent cell signal, trash and laundry on site. Gotta love when a laundromat uses qr codes to pay, didn't even have to get a roll of quarters. We ended up staying longer because it was so quiet and relaxing. A great place to escape the desert for a little while. Groceries, coffee shops, and dispensaries all within a few miles.

We’ve stopped at this RV park regularly in our winter travels for the past 10 years. Love the pool area and open grassy spaces in this park. But the last two visits the bathhouse was a mess. No toilet paper despite calling the office twice. Garbage all over the floor including the paper towels used in place of missing toilet paper. I hope new owners can get their act together. Traveling in a small B without enclosed toilet, we like a nice toilet area, and shower.

Second stay in a month. First stay seamless. Second stay had glitches and companion’s stay was unfortunate.

Check in: 1st stay easey peasey. Entire stay pleasant. Second stay check in took 20 minutes (and no one in line). New clerk. Pools nice, headed to our sites after dark. Mine ok, but not level. Friends site had another car in it so she could barely get in and it was not very level either.

The next day I used pool again - nice. Friend tried to do laundry but washer’s didn’t work and front desk was rude. Said not their problem the washers didn’t work.

While trying to sort out the washers a couple long time residents explained the family sold Sam’s last year, most of the old staff quit and now many were experiencing apathetic, at best, service

They did ‘refund’ my friend’s stay(due to car in her site) but then refused to allow her to use pools without paying day use fee. Seems they should have said they were sorry about the site and the washers and then as a courtesy allowed her to use pool until checkout time (they were only 4 other people, including me in their six pools). Instead they were rude and didn’t try to insure my friend had a good
experience.

Price reflects the monthly rate of $609.
This place is amazing as a winter home base! The pools are incredible and there is a very beautiful garden area as well.
Verizon signal is good (60 download, 40 upload) except it can sometimes get congested on the weekend at night.
The staff is friendly and we haven't had any real issues the 2 months we've been here! We would definitely come back.

We stayed here for two nights and wish we could have longer. At first glance it doesn’t look like much and the slight septic smell was off putting. Once you enter the pool area that all goes away. My partner and I are a sucker for 70s nostalgia and this checked all the boxes. We loved the natural mineral pools and learned that Sam’s is a local hot spot for all the right reasons.

One thing I’m always looking for in reviews is a comment on WiFi, their wife was weak but we got by with our phones.

If you have the opportunity stay for a couple days and take advantage of those mineral pools!

Came with a group of 6 RVs. We were all together in the 300 section , the spaces are a bit narrow but it was not hard to get backed in with a bit of help.
Enjoyed Soaking in the hot Spring pools.
Park is clean and tidy but power pedestal was worn and I had to put side pressure to maintain ground
WiFi actually works Out in that area
VZW has a tower right out front
AT&t was 2-3 bars
Tv Antenna signal was great lots of Channels

The sites are extremely narrow. I couldn’t even get my bin open to get to my water hookup. And I saw several RVs that were parked up against or within inches of posts/electrical boxes. The pool area seemed lovely, but I didn’t even get that far. I left after the second site I pulled into (and kind of fit) didn’t have ground electric. For $55/night this tight park isn’t worth it when you can go to others down the road for $45/night.

We were supposed to stay at Joshua Tree, but on the day we were meant to check in, the government shut down. As we couldn't find a concrete answer as to whether or not the campgrounds would be open, we made a last-minute decision to call Sam's instead of risk driving all the way into the park and risk having to turn around.

The interesting thing about Sam's is they let you drive around, pick an open spot, get settled in, and then come to the office to pay. This is great because their spots are no joke -- very hard to back into due to narrowness -- which was tough because this was only our second time backing our Airstream into a spot. Half the sites are permanent mobile homes and the other half are varying-sized, non-reservable spots for both RVs and tents. After a lot of driving around and much debate as to whether we should stay, we ended up finding an end spot that we could back straight into due to it's position at the end of a street. We ended up next to a guy who said that he drives truck for a living and even he had difficulty getting into a spot (they had a 30' Airstream) and finally settled on their spot after attempts at two other sites. After being there a few days, we did notice that there are some sites that are essentially pull throughs if sites around them are empty, such as 312, 302 and 301.

Anyways, level sites with full hookups and cable. Coin laundry, clean restrooms with showers, dog run, playground, store, and BBQ area. There's also an "exercise room", but the free weights max out at 10lbs, so not very effective. But their claim to fame are the naturally-heated hot spring pools. There are four small hot pools, a larger warm swimming pool, and a small wading pool. The property is nice and relaxing.

It's a 45-minute drive to the Joshua Tree Visitor's Center and 25 minutes into Palm Springs.

We have a WeBoost, so I can't comment on cell coverage except to say ours was great with both AT&T and Verizon.