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Murrieta — consistently the first or second-safest town in California. Its safety, coupled with exceptional services for its 110,000 citizens like outstanding schools and 53 parks, have helped draw people to what once was a tiny bedroom community.
Murrieta as a own are experts at hosting small meetings and with its location halfway between metro L.A. and San Diego on Interstate 15, is easily accessible. It’s also an hour or less from four major airports, including San Diego International, Orange County’s John Wayne and Palm Springs International.
Retreat to Murrieta’s Hot Springs
Now, with the reopening of a historic mineral springs resort, Murrieta has returned to its roots as a health and wellness retreat, making it an even more appealing meeting destination. Not only has Murrieta Hot Springs Resort returned, but four limited-service hotels have opened — up from just one eight years ago — and three to four more hotels are planned, according to Explore Murrieta’s President/CEO, Patrick Ellis.
Murrieta Hot Springs’ new owners, who also own the Springs Resort in Pagosa, Colorado, have spent $155 million to resurrect the resort, which for 30 years had been the campus of a Bible college. The resort’s 174 guest rooms are in white stucco Spanish Colonial style buildings from the early 1900s, and its 46 acres are dotted with 50 pools, hot tubs and cold plunge pools, filled with its warm mineral waters, shaded by leafy palm trees. There’s a restaurant, several bars and a coffee shop, as well as a full-service spa and wellness activities like meditation and aquatic yoga.
Beyond the resort—where the public can buy day passes to enjoy the healing waters—there’s plenty to do, much of it outdoors. Golf outings capitalize on courses like Temecula Creek Inn, Journey at Pachanga and The Golf Club at Rancho California, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr.
A Winery Resort and Tasting Tours
Grapeline Tours, which works closely with Murrieta Hot Springs, is among the companies that put together group tours with combine wine tastings with food pairings, picnic lunches or other options. Compared to other California wine regions, wineries around Temecula are laidback and less crowded, so visitors taste the region’s charm as well as its wines.
Several of the wineries have gone far beyond growing grapes and making wine, adding amenities like guest accommodations and meeting and event spaces. Europa Village styles its spaces to echo the architectures of Spain, France and Italy. One example? Its La Piazza at Vienza, a Tuscan plaza of stone, arches, heavy wooden doors and columnar evergreens. South Coast Winery Resort and Spa, the state’s winery of the year multiple times, has 132 guest rooms in suites and villas and 30,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space.
All in all, Murrieta adds up to a city that can be safely enjoyed, says Ellis. “People want to go where they feel safe, where they can walk around and explore. That, you can do here, without hesitation.”
For more information:
Explore Murrieta
Patrick Ellis
President/CEO
951-677-7916
