Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa Up For Sale, May Close

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 28th 2009 at 11:32AM

Could we be seeing another Southern California hotel in trouble? The LA Times is reporting that the Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa, which re-opened last November under the Borrego Ranch name after a major renovation, might be closing down. Officials at the Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa and Montesoro Golf & Social Club have told employees the hotel could shut down as early as November 30. There is still a chance that the project may find additional investors or new funding and stay afloat. The LA Times quotes Sasha Itzikman, senior vice president for Borrego Ranch who says the company is looking for investors but is also open to a full sale. The Borrego Springs area in San Diego County has tried to style itself as a resort community similar to Palm Springs.

For now the resort remains open. It has 44 rooms and 19 casitas. The casitas range in size from one to four bedrooms and most have a wood-burning fireplace and private pool or spa and all include a wet bar, compact refrigerator and microwave. The spa offers massage, skin care, hair care, manicures and pedicures. The resort has an impressive amount of activities to keep you busy from golf and tennis to fitness classes, hikes, swimming and bicycle and horseback riding. There is also life-size chess, shuffleboard, bocce ball, a putting green, an archery range and championship croquet courses. The resort is currently offering the Borrego Ranch Experience starting at $295 per person, per night (2 night minimum, double occupancy required) which includes accommodations, a spa treatment of golf and all meals (excluding room service or alcohol).

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Meggs Oct 28th 2009 7:39PM

Wow that's beautiful! Wish I could buy it!

eleanor murillo Oct 29th 2009 8:27PM

A wonderful place to vacation alone, with visitors and especially with family when it was the Casa del Zorro! We spent many happy holidays at the resort.
When it changed hands we felt very unwelcome. Our last holiday as they changed ownership, a security detail hired by the new owners, a disreputable crew of poorly trained youths, followed us everywhere, slept in rooms over ours, threw their cigarette butts down on our terrace. The old management apologized but could do nothing.
Prices went up a good amount and children were no longer welcomed.
Spas are a dime a dozen, haughtiness is common . The new owners should have done their research better and recognized who their clientele had been and could be. It is so sad. We remember it well.