Best Western Sunset Plaza Hotel
Relax and enjoy the elegant yet affordable accommodations in the heart of West Hollywood on the legendary Sunset Strip. The rooms are fitted with comfortable, king-size beds or two queen-size beds as well as rooms with fully-equipped kitchens. No matter where you want to go, you can easily get there from here – the original Comedy Club is just across the street.
(under $150)
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Beverly Hills Hotel
The Beverly Hills Hotel has been in Beverly Hills since 1912, before the city was even born. Shamelessly glamorous, the hotel has been a playground to everyone from Rudolph Valentino to Howard Hughes to Katharine Hepburn. Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned with six of her eight husbands in the famously private bungalows. Some of the luxuries include an Olympic-sized outdoor swimming pool, two outdoor tennis courts, beauty salon, men's shop and limo service. Despite the decadent, the hotel remains refreshingly unpretentious, with service-oriented staff and the best original touches have been retained, like butler service at the touch of a button.
(over $200)
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Beverly Plaza Hotel
When it comes to Angelino shopping favourites, it’s hard to beat Third Street, with its fabulous little shops devoted to travel books, cookbooks, high concept decor, upscale bath products and candles. While this alone is enough to lure guests, this hotel refuses to rely on location alone by fitting in almost every big hotel amenity – pool, fitness and sundeck. An unassuming facade welcomes guests into an intimate marble lobby attached to Cava, a small tapas restaurant and bar serving Spanish and Mediterranean classics. Tiny elevators ferry guests to modestly-sized, yet stylish guest rooms.
(over $200)
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Century Plaza Hotel
Many US presidents, members of international royalty and movie stars, have stayed at this glitzy Westside destination. Its dazzling 1960s architecture with its trademark sweeping curved facade is located right in the heart of Century City, which is convenient to all sides of LA from Santa Monica to downtown. Guest rooms feature soft, warm colours, mixing contemporary and classic California style. The hotel features four swimming pools, each smaller than the last to form an impressive water sculpture within the 10-acre tropical gardens. Guests can indulge a day off pampering and relaxation at the plush in- hotel spa.
(over $200)
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Chateau Marmont
The Chateau Marmont, a Norman-style château, is a landmark from 1920s-era Hollywood. This beautifully kept, eternally chic, faultlessly service oriented hotel is overflowing with Hollywood and rock'n’roll lore but it’s not for everybody. This is a place where quirkiness rules, so don’t expect traditional luxuries. It’s best for those with left-of-centre attitudes and a real penchant for Hollywood romanticism. The hotel has played host to everyone from John Lennon to Elizabeth Taylor because of its lure of seclusion, situated on top of a hill and hidden by thick foliage. The bungalows away from the main building are favoured for privacy and John Belushi died in Number 2 in 1982.
(over $200)
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Embassy Hotel Apartments
Just a quick walk from the Pacific Ocean and mere blocks from posh Montana Avenue and the lively Third Street Promenade shopping area, these Moorish Mediterranean apartments are for travellers who are seeking a truly authentic Southern California beach experience. Built in 1927, these classically elegant individually furnished suites that offer period kitchens, separate bedrooms, antiques, iron beds and pristine 1920s bathrooms. Their stylish lobby is graced with a grand piano and a hand-carved reception desk, and ornate windows look out onto amazing formal gardens featuring fountains and native and exotic plantings and the Palisades Park.
(over $200)
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Farmer’s Daughter
This Fairfax district country-chic motel is the first choice in hip lodging for budget travellers. Set on three-levels, this motel wraps around an airy patio with wooden tables and gingham covered lounge chairs, a small swimming pool and a free parking lot. Rooms are cosy, with country touches like fake chickens, cow skin rugs and denim bedspreads. Merging old with the new, all rooms have modern conveniences like high-speed internet access, in-room CD/DVD player, rain showerheads and pungent aromatic soaps.
(under $150)
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Four Seasons Hotel
Everyone from Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie to Gwyneth Paltrow and Morgan Freeman have been known to check into the Four Seasons. The hotel prides itself on treating any paying client whether they are in showbiz, a sports celebrity, have political power or Joe Average like royalty. Each room contains the famous custom beds, specially made for the Four Seasons by Sealy. Available for sale, nearly 300 guests have opted to make their bedrooms a home away from Four Seasons. Other luxuries include Bulgari bath products, free limo service to Rodeo Drive, and a business centre.
(over $200)
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Hilton Los Angeles Airport
hotel in the LAX area. Hugely popular because of its simple quality and convenience with conventioneers, commercial airline pilots and flight attendants who arrive here in their droves. Guest rooms are spacious but plain, designed for short business stays rather than a leisurely, atmospheric visit. There are breathtaking views of approaching 747s, but other than that, the area is sparse for entertainment or culture. An intimate Italian restaurant gives guests a break from the overall enormity of the hotel.
($150 - $200)
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Hotel Bel-Air
Originally constructed by Oil baron and Bel-Air Estates founder Alphonso E Bell for office space, years later, it was converted into this grand hotel in 1940. Compared by many to an Eden like oasis in LA’s busy metropolises, guests enter via a miniature bridge, which crosses the hotel’s signature Swan Lake with its cascading waterfalls. Inside the hotel, the antique furnishings will make any one feel like royalty. Guests can wander through 12 lushly landscaped acres, all secluded to ensure privacy. Guests seeking complete seclusion should ask for the Swan Lake Suite, which has a private entry gate.
(over $200)
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