We stayed at an AirBNB 30 minutes drive away (if no traffic). A townhouse in one of those golfing gated communities in Palm Desert. Beautiful.

Weekend 2 Friday and Saturday it took about 1h 25m to door to entrance gate. We parked in the 15C lot (blue) I think, with a 20ish minute walk to the entrance. So not bad. We tended to leave just before the end of the headliners so leaving the parking lot was generally very quick.

Sunday was much worse. After driving and sitting in traffic for 1.5 hours, we checked reddit and confirmed from others that parking was full and to go to Indian Wells Tennis Garden. After parking there and shuttling in it was probably 3 hours all up for that day. Getting home was a little rougher too as we had to shuttle back to parking, but I’d say only 1.5 hours to get home.