Left-coasters have it all. The mountains, the ocean, the desert.

But where do a couple of hours on the road get us? Lake Geneva?

Exactly. This Memorial Day the new and improved Abbey Resort opens. Gone is the dark ’60s-inspired chalet of your youth. In its place, thanks to a $40 million redevelopment, you’ll find guest rooms that have been catapulted into the twenty-first century with flat-screen TVs, Wi-Fi, pillow-top mattresses, and personal touches like a grocery service that will stock your minifridge with your picks before you arrive.

Start your day at one of the five pools (adults-only sunning spots rock) and end it sipping a martini at the cigar bar or kicking back on the marina.

By mid-June the Fontana Spa renovation will be complete; in the meantime the hot stone massage makes it well worth the trip.

Even if the ride there is pretty flat.

The Abbey Resort, 269 Fontana Boulevard, Fontana, Wisconsin (800-772-1000 or theabbeyresort.com).