The Westin Desert Willow Villas, a new Westin Vacation Ownership Resort in Palm Desert, California is scheduled to open in late 2009. Desert Willow is a magnificent community with two of the best public golf courses in the country, providing the perfect backdrop for the second Westin-branded vacation ownership resort in the area. This is the second resort to open in the area after the Westin resort at Mission Hills.

The Westin Desert Willow Villas will include 300 two-bedroom lock-off villas with luxurious features and amenities. Guests will delight in the separate living and dining rooms, balconies, flat-panel televisions, dvd players, stereos, hi-speed wireless internet, convection ovens, and jet tubs. The resort will also feature a clubhouse and reception building, two lavish swimming pools, a water slide, hot tubs, a kiddie pool, tennis courts, a game room and expansive landscaped grounds, and a WESTINWORKOUT(R) Fitness Facility. The design of the villas and sales center will complement the existing architecture and style of Desert Willow.

About Starwood Vacation Ownership

Starwood Vacation Ownership is an award-winning company with more than 25 resorts in some of the most sought after vacation destinations in the world. The Westin Desert Willow Villas, Palm Desert will be the eleventh Westin Vacation Ownership resort either completed or in development including resorts in Maui, Kauai, California, Arizona, Colorado, Cancun, Los Cabos, St. John, USVI and Aruba. In addition to Westin, SVO is developing vacation ownership resorts under the Sheraton brand and high-end fractional residences under the St. Regis and The Luxury Collection brands.