Splash House

Splash House is a 21-and-over poolside music festival in Palm Springs, California, built around house and tech-house programming spread across three host resort hotels. By day, sets run at the resort pools; by night, a separately ticketed After Hours program takes over the Palm Springs Air Museum, where crowds dance among vintage aircraft on the tarmac. Complimentary shuttles link the venues, the host hotels are blocked off for attendees, and impromptu hotel room parties after the pools close are a defining part of the weekend. The event is staged as a multi-weekend summer series and is produced by Goldenvoice

Attendees repeatedly praise the friendly, welcoming crowd and the overall vibe, with many first-timers calling it a new favorite and returning year after year. The After Hours parties among the jets at the Air Museum and the convenience of staying in the blocked-off host hotels, where late-night room parties spill into the hallways, are frequent highlights, along with the ease of moving between pools on the shuttles

The most recently held edition ran across two August weekends in Palm Springs. Attendees again singled out the friendly crowd, the Air Museum After Hours and the hotel room parties, while common critiques centered on the intense August heat and, for one of the weekends, reports of poor crowd behavior and long shuttle lines. Some longtime attendees noted that moving between the pool venues can mean waiting in lines once venues reach capacity