The "City of Angels" is surrounded by beautiful mountain ranges originating from the Grand Canyon to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west as well as many forests and deep valleys to both the north and south. Los Angeles is the center of Southern California's vast business and cultural landscape. Second in population to the New York City metropolitan area, LA and its surrounding area is home to about 18 million people. There are over 150 international cultures and languages represented here. Along with very important media, business, and international trade, the global reach of Los Angeles is primarily based on being the center of the movie, TV, and performing arts industries.
Los Angeles Highlights:
The Music Center: Located in the downtown center it is the home of four internationally recognized artistic groups: the Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Los Angeles Opera. You can visit all the major venues, including the recently built Walt Disney Concert Hall, and then take in the atmosphere of its plazas, outdoor theaters, and gardens.
Hollywood: No trip to the entertainment capital of the world would be complete without a walk down Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Over 2400 stars are honored in four major categories: Film, TV, the Performing Arts, and the Entertainment Business. It may take awhile for you to find your favorite star as you stroll from the Capitol Records building to Sunset Boulevard.
Madame Tussauds Hollywood: The next stop on your tour of entertainment icons is this international wax museum, where you can get up close and personal with lifelike replicas of Hollywood celebrities.
Olvera Street: Since you are already in the center of the city, you can take a break for a meal or snack at this legendary center of Latin culture. You can even purchase a souvenir at one of the many retail stores here.
The green glow through translucent glass is the only clue that there’s anything out of the ordinary going on behind the discreet (and unsigned) facade of this seaside hotel. Inside, though, it’s something else entirely — the Viceroy is one of Santa Monica’s hottest spots, and the interiors are as chic as can be, a contemp ...
Adjust your mental picture of Santa Monica: the Ambrose is more than a mile inland, leaving the beach to the high rollers, who inflate their prices accordingly. Here you’ll find that it is possible to get an excellent room in Santa Monica, at a charming little boutique, for about the price one would expect from a dreary chain motel—a ...
From humble beginnings as the quintessential SoCal beachside bungalow town, Manhattan Beach has gone upscale. Expensive homes, swanky restaurants, luxury retailers, and now, a boutique hotel. Though just three blocks from the beach, Shade is about interiors; these spaces, by the Discovery Home Channel’s Christopher Lowell, are designed to ...
At first glance, we must admit, we were skeptical—the Luxe Hotel is quite possibly the only storefront on Rodeo Drive that doesn’t belong to a luxury goods brand or a designer boutique. It seems the height of folly to establish a hotel here, on the world’s most famous shopper’s drive, and given our general aversion to con ...
The Thompson group continues its westward expansion with this Beverly Hills outpost, built from the bones of a Sixties-era chain motel on Wilshire Boulevard. Not that you’d notice — if the Thompson is retro, it’s retro of the Seventies chocolate-leather variety, rather than another revival of the mid-century motel.
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The Pink Palace has, in true Hollywood fashion, had some work done; nothing shocking, just a hundred-million-dollar renovation in an effort to stay competitive with a new generation. It’s a success—this place could have slid gently into self-parody, but it’s every bit as fine as when Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand stayed here ...
What was once the Beverly Carlton (and two neighboring apartment houses) is now the Avalon, a Fifties retro-style hotel packed with mid-century Eames, Noguchi and Nelson furniture to match its blocky blue facade and curvaceous hourglass-shaped pool, which we’d like to think is an homage to onetime resident Marilyn Monroe, but probably isn& ...
The Sofitel Los Angeles is back, after the sort of renovation that makes most hotel facelifts look like little more than a good spring cleaning. Gone is the faded South-of-France style that looked almost defiantly out-of-place at the edge of Beverly Hills; this 295-room hotel is now decidedly a city hotel, a bit Parisian even, from the mansard r ...
Like a true B & B, it's set away from the urban hub in residential Beverly Hills. From the outside 140 is hard to spot — it's a gray, narrow building, striking only in its plainness. Step in the lobby, and its a different story. Some people find it reminiscent of Blakes, in London, others of the Latin Quarter in Paris. In any c ...
America’s wealth of disused and neglected modernist hotels and motels is a resource we’d like to see put to better use. So the Hotel Angeleno comes as a nice surprise. This cylindrical tower on the West Side was a Holiday Inn, from that middlebrow chain’s Sixties tower period — today, though, after what must have been a h ...
With a name like that it’s not hard to guess where they’re coming from. The Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard is luxe indeed, with a location that’s more upscale retreat than downtown hipster haunt — it’s spread over seven acres of parkland in Brentwood, near the Getty Center, where Sunset Boulevard is a winding mountain ...
Deep in the heart of West Hollywood, on a quiet residential street between Sunset and Santa Monica, the Chamberlain is actually quite a bit cooler than it looks. This is no backhanded compliment — in a reversal of what seems to be the standard procedure in Los Angeles, the Chamberlain presents an unassuming public face, and keeps its surpr ...
Though the phrase “extended stay” may summon images of dreary corporate apartments, West Hollywood’s Palihouse Holloway proves that it’s a concept that can be done in high style. Boasting boutique-hotel looks alongside apartment-scale space and a discreet low-maintenance atmosphere, it’s quite a change from the pape ...
It wasn't so long ago that downtown Los Angeles after six P.M. was a ghost town. This is the case no longer, and it's thanks in no small part to the Downtown Standard — in particular, the rooftop bar, with its astroturf, topiary gardens and waterbed loungers, a fixture on the downtown nightlife scene, and a place so exclusive that ...
Think of big-time luxury these days and you’ll probably find you’re thinking of New York and London — so it’s only fitting that some of the best of what Los Angeles has to offer has roots in both. The London West Hollywood follows on the heels of the London NYC, bringing its trademark grown-up luxury to the Sunset Strip. ...
The phrase “airport hotel” is one we often catch ourselves using as shorthand for the uninspired and uncomfortable places that are the antithesis of everything we at Tablet hold dear. So it’s kind of a big deal when one of them turns out to be as sleek, stylish and thoughtfully put together as any European-capital design boutiq ...
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This 4,210 sq feet contemporary Palm Springs vacation rental home was updated in 2007 with a modern look to an early 1970’s regency-style. Located in the desirable Palm Canyon Estates is this 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom golf retreat.
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Fresh off a large-scale redesign at the hands of the designer Benjamin Noriega Ortiz, the updated Mondrian has done well to keep pace with the times. The intensely avant-garde interiors from the Starck days are all grown up now, the Mondrian adapted for a more refined taste.
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There’s a case to be made that the popular image of LA has it all wrong. It’s a vast, sprawling, crowded city, in most places hardly the oasis of mellowness it’s commonly suspected of being. Santa Monica, however, is exactly that oasis of mellowness — it’s got the beach, the pier, the promenade, and it’s got h ...
In case your sense of Southern California geography is a little bit hazy, it should be stated right up front: Rancho Palos Verdes isn’t some Orange County bedroom community, but an upscale enclave on a peninsula in southwestern Los Angeles — south of LAX and west of Long Beach. This makes the newly built Terranea Resort surprisingly ...
Malibu’s Carbon Beach is probably better known by its nickname, Billionaire’s Beach. The pristine stretch of southern California coastline is prime real-estate for movie stars and rich-enough-to-own-an-island moguls, with small plots of beachfront real estate hitting eight-figure prices. Unless you’ve got famous friends, your B ...
The very eclectic San Francisco–based Joie de Vivre group has been building its presence in Southern California, including Venice Beach, itself quite possibly the most laid-back place in the United States. And the Hotel Erwin does its level best to fit in — with a restaurant called Hash and a rooftop lounge called High, it’s ob ...
The old “Riot Hyatt” on Sunset, site of countless acts of rock-star debauchery and destruction, is now just about unrecognizable. Mötley Crüe’s loss, however, is your gain — it’s been reborn as the Andaz West Hollywood, the old balconies, venue of many an aerial TV toss, sealed off with full-length windows ...
Though the reference is likely lost on some of its visitors, the Petit Ermitage isn’t named for just any old hermitage. Here in the heart of West Hollywood is a boutique hotel that doubles as a tribute to Catherine the Great’s Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (that’s the one in Russia, but you knew that). Come for the heavy a ...
From the outside, L'Ermitage hasn't changed from its days as a condominium complex circa 1970 — but inside is a different story. The lobby is an airy minimal paradise in mahogany and caramel. The bedrooms are boudoirs lined with gilded silk, with pale wooden screens that open into walk in closets, and plenty (675 feet for a standar ...
The Standard Hollywood is the motel of your dreams. Sixties modernist, blinding white, with Astro-Turf surrounding the obligatory swimming pool. And the neighborhood — not some desert highway but the Sunset Strip, site of many a debauch, from Tallulah Bankhead’s Twenties exhibitionism to the heavy-metal excesses of the Eighties and b ...
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