The Thunderbird Hotel will be your home for two nights in this wonderful out-of-the-ordinary art destination.

  The Thunderbird is everything a small hotel should be, providing privacy, hospitality and stylishness without pretension.  With its pool and pale blue exterior reflecting the desert sky, a sensation of light and spaciousness pervades.  Stands of native plants and cacti anchor the hotel in its environment, and a latticework of salvaged oil-field piping shades the breezeways and poolside lounge with orange honeysuckle vines.  Careful landscaping, attention to detail: the Thunderbird is characterized by a wealth of inviting spaces.

 
A locally run hotel since 1959, Bob Harris of Lake/Flato Architects reinvigorated the Thunderbird’s classic ‘50s horseshoe shape and interior courtyard for its 2005 reopening.  The renovation transformed the structure into a model of modern design and livability while maintaining the original hotel’s bygone feeling of leisure.  

 Your trip also includes a complimentary visit to the Chinati Institute, and a tour of the workshop and gallery of Robert Arber  (a Tamarind Master Printer) and wife and artist Valerie Arber.