West Hollywood & Mid-City
This 1929 art-deco marvel evokes the romance of Hollywood's Golden Age, when Errol Flynn, Truman Capote and Marilyn Monroe resided here. Recently…
West Hollywood & Mid-City
This 1929 art-deco marvel evokes the romance of Hollywood's Golden Age, when Errol Flynn, Truman Capote and Marilyn Monroe resided here. Recently…
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
This 31-room beachfront property feels like home away from home. A cool wooden elevator takes you up to stylish studios and suites boasting wood floors,…
South Bay Beaches
This '60s property on its own peninsula north of the Redondo Pier blends urban sophistication with nautical lightheartedness. Get an ocean-side room with…
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
Now part of Four Seasons, the Beverly Wilshire has corked Rodeo Dr since 1928. Home to 395 elegantly appointed rooms and suites, it exudes a formal…
West Hollywood & Mid-City
Gingham bedspreads, country-style throw pillows and down-home art lend this flirty motel a farmhouse vibe, mixed with big-city sophistication such as…
Malibu & Pacific Palisades
This recently modernized, 18-room motel offers a minimalist cool vibe with comfy beds draped in crisp linen, slate floors in the bathrooms, plus coffee…
Banana Bungalow West Hollywood
West Hollywood & Mid-City
This popular, well-run hostel occupies a converted nursing home. Translation: the Fairfax bubbies are gone and the global backpackers have moved in to…
South Bay Beaches
Steps from the sand, the halls of this convivial hostel with a newly renovated kitchen offer mostly co-ed four- and six-person dorms. Even the private…
Hollywood
The W's soaring, sparkly atrium makes quite an impression, as does the sceney, palm-fringed rooftop pool deck. In shades of grey, silver and white, rooms…
Santa Monica
Stylish enough to be alluring, but not too stuck up or intimidating, this 70-room 1939 art deco classic, across the avenue from the bluffs, sports suites…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
What was originally a 1920s hostel for women is now one of Downtown's coolest slumber pads, recently revamped and adorned with specially commissioned…
San Fernando Valley
This valley classic (Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn and other Hollywood stars once stayed here) had fallen on hard times but is back and swinging after a…
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
Old Venice funky and old-sandal comfy, this place right on the Boardwalk scores big for bend-over-backwards staff. Take Betsy, the creaky 1913 elevator,…
West Hollywood & Mid-City
This independently owned, 95-room hotel is smack-dab in the W 3rd St shopping district and just a five-minute walk from the Beverly Center mall. Natural…
Hollywood
Breathtaking city views, a curvaceous pool guarded by a 17th-century pagoda, and roomy digs with balcony and kitchen are among the assets at this older…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Graced with chandeliers, Renaissance-inspired ceilings and legend (the Academy Awards were founded in the Crystal Ballroom in 1927), this grand dame has…
Best Western Sunset Plaza Hotel
West Hollywood & Mid-City
Don't let the Best Western brand deceive you – this hotel packs plenty of charm in its Mediterranean-inspired shell. Around a pool deck strewn with palms,…
W Los Angeles - West Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
Despite a $25-million renovation, wear and tear is evident in the W's lobby, an aquatically themed space with wave-shaped wooden panels, digital art and…
West Hollywood & Mid-City
A sleek, fashionable, six-story hotel in the heart of the mid-Wilshire district, ideally located near some of LA's best museums and blessed with a…
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
Recently renovated, the Palomar mixes elegance and playfulness in the lounge, where handsome wooden panels, modernist-style furniture and sculptural…
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
This hostel in a refurbished 1904 building has spectacular rooftop views of Venice Beach, bright, beachy swatches of color and four- to eight-person dorms…
Santa Monica
Behind the charming historic facade, this older boutique hotel around the corner from the Promenade has just redone its rooms with craftsman-style…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This 878-room behemoth flanks the massive LA Live entertainment complex. Chef Ben Ford (son of Harrison) heads the Californian restaurant in the lofty,…
South Bay Beaches
A mile from Manhattan Beach and 10 minutes' drive from the airport, the 127-room Belamar is a bit off the beaten track on busy Sepulveda Blvd, so it’s…
Hollywood
Location, location, location! This tower hotel soars beside the Hollywood & Highland shopping center, right in the heart of Hollywood. Rooms are clean,…
Santa Monica
The friendly, family-run lodgings at this comfy 25-unit motel put you just a Frisbee toss from the beach on happening Main St (quadruple-pane windows help…
Santa Monica
Across the street from Palisades Park and the Pacific beyond, this eye-catching, 1933 art deco landmark has a snug ocean-view veranda for breakfast (get…
Long Beach & San Pedro
Get rocked to sleep by the waves aboard your choice of five yachts sleeping three to five people. Each yacht is different, but all have galley kitchens…
Santa Monica
Modern with clean lines, lots of woods, whites with pops of orange and aqua, this is Santa Monica's only gold LEED-certified (low carbon footprint) hotel…
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
Mid-century modern gets a 21st-century spin at this fashion-crowd fave, which was Marilyn Monroe’s old pad in its days as an apartment building. Funky…
San Fernando Valley
Ignore the oh-so-corporate moniker. This tower hotel with a frosted-glass facade has class and value around a soaring atrium lobby. All rooms are suites,…
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
Set in a string of boho studio and apartment hotels overlooking the Boardwalk, rooms here are fairly large with new wood floors, wall-mounted flat-screen…
Hollywood
This sociable hostel puts you within steps of the Hollywood party circuit. Private rooms are a bit cramped, but making new friends is easy during staff…
West Hollywood & Mid-City
With a prime Boys Town location, this large hotel has simple, clean, three-star rooms, guest laundry room and a palm-lined pool deck, plus lots of…
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
A rambling cottage turned impeccably run inn overlooks the state-protected Ballona Wetlands. It has 23 individually decorated rooms with a contemporary…
San Fernando Valley
Close to Warner Bros, the 100 rooms at this boutique business hotel are inspired by Hollywood movie sets, from doors like those on actors' dressing rooms…
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
It might be on the older side, but this Euro-style property offers good value. Rooms aren't huge but please with their mid-Century Modern accents, and the…
Malibu & Pacific Palisades
Perched above the highway and overlooking Westward Beach is this humble shingled inn with 16 fairly large rooms that are clean and white with subdued…
Hollywood
Walls at this perennial pleaser are a bit thin, but otherwise it’s a charming base of operation with large, modern rooms, exceptional staff and a petite…
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
Downtown Pasadena’s slickest sleep is a 350-room, modern, Spanish-style complex with comfortable, newly renovated rooms, large, well-equipped gym with…