Beverly Hills Hotel: you can check out anytime you like, but…

April 24, 2011

LOS ANGELES, USA- One might be reticent to check into a hotel that’s pictured on the cover of The Eagles’ Hotel California.  Who’d want to run the risk of lodging in a place they can “never leave”?  Well, given that the famously photographed hotel is actually the Beverly Hills Hotel… (more)

Everything but the moat at the Chateau Marmont

September 7, 2010

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – Castles are curious dwellings. They’re synonymous with profligate opulence and ravishing royalty, yet these fortified palaces also figure prominently in the mythology of despair, from infamous recluses like William Randolph Hearst to cursed princesses á la Sleeping Beauty. At Los Angeles’ Chateau Marmont, which New York… (more)

A discreet retreat like none other at L’Ermitage

July 21, 2010

BEVERLY HILLS, USA – It used to be that if you sought out a hermitage you were either a recluse, a monk, or a nun.  Today, in the lap of contemporary Beverly Hills luxury, L’Ermitage is making that definition history, so to speak. Though it promises “unquestioned privacy” that an… (more)

Oceanfront digs (minus the beach bunnies) at Casa del Mar

April 2, 2010

SANTA MONICA, CA – Though many of Los Angeles’ finest hotels are concentrated in Beverly Hills and Hollywood, it’s hard for me to visit the city without itching to stay somewhere close to the beach. That iconic expanse of sparkling blue Pacific rimmed with white sand and palm trees never… (more)

Rock ‘n’ Ramsay at The London West Hollywood

February 15, 2010

LOS ANGELES, USA – Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip has long been a place to rock. With iconic clubs like the Viper Room, the Troubadour, and the Whisky a Go Go, there’s a serious history of screaming guitars and big hair up on the Boulevard. Just because I’ve outgrown my Jon… (more)