RESET Hotel in Twentynine Palms, California has joined Outdoor Collection by Marriott Bonvoy, making it the first new brand to enter the portfolio since the collection launched in September 2025. For UK business travellers who bank points with Marriott, it adds a bookable, points-earning option on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, roughly an hour from Palm Springs and within driving distance of Los Angeles.
The 65-room property sits on 180 acres of high desert a few minutes from the national park’s north entrance, and is the first hotel built from the ground up in Twentynine Palms in more than 15 years. That matters commercially as well as scenically. Corporate travellers heading to Southern California for meetings in LA, Palm Springs or the Coachella Valley have had limited branded inventory in the area, and almost none of it has been points-eligible at this end of the market.
What the property actually offers
RESET has been designed to sit low against its surroundings rather than dominate them, using natural textures, wide desert views and private patios in every room fitted with Solo Stove fire pits, daybeds and stargazing platforms. Guests can walk the property’s own desert preserve, use outdoor soaking tubs, and access a saltwater pool, jacuzzi, sauna and cold plunge.
The programming is the differentiator. Twentynine Palms sits under some of the darkest skies in Southern California, and the hotel runs stargazing sessions using Celestron telescopes alongside astronomy events led by former NASA and JPL astronomers, plus creative residencies and design-led events. For anyone extending a work trip into a weekend, that is a rather more distinctive proposition than a resort day pass.
“RESET was created to offer a more thoughtful way to experience the desert, one that brings guests closer to the landscape without competing with it,” said Shannon Ching, Co-founder of RESET. “Joining Outdoor Collection by Marriott Bonvoy gives us the opportunity to introduce that experience to a broader global audience while preserving the independent vision and sense of place that define the hotel.”
Why it matters for points and policy
RESET joins the collection’s founding portfolio of Postcard Cabins and Trailborn properties, one of the first additions since Marriott Bonvoy launched the outdoor platform last autumn. Stays earn and redeem Marriott Bonvoy points in the usual way, and members get access to member rates and the wider benefits of the programme.
The practical read for UK companies is straightforward. Independent properties in leisure-adjacent destinations rarely appear in corporate booking tools, which means bleisure extensions often fall outside policy and outside the points ledger. Bringing a property like this under a major loyalty umbrella closes that gap. Smaller firms using Business Access by Marriott Bonvoy to manage their travel will see the same inventory surface through the same channel they already use for city hotels.
The wider pattern
Marriott’s outdoor push is part of a broader repositioning by the big chains towards experience-led inventory, a trend visible across the luxury hotel openings set to reshape business travel in 2026. For travel managers, the question is less about desert fire pits and more about whether these properties meet duty of care, connectivity and rate-audit requirements. RESET is a purpose-built hotel rather than a cabin cluster, which puts it on firmer ground than some of the collection’s other entries.
Joshua Tree is one of the busiest parks in the American Southwest and the US National Park Service publishes entrance fees, opening arrangements and seasonal guidance worth checking before travel. Anyone planning a trip should also budget for the drive, as the nearest sizeable airport is Palm Springs International, with Los Angeles roughly two and a half hours away.
