Get a Room...Stay for the Party - L.A. Hot Hotels
Turn up the heat on a romantic evening, your own private afterparty or just a playful night away from home with this season’s hottest hotels in Los Angeles. Hotel bars and lounges have never been more accessible, now packed with celebrities, hot twenty-somethings and sophisticated thirty-somethings from Hollywood Boulevard to Ocean Avenue.
A few gems in Los Angeles will sweep you willingly away to the 1920s-era golden days of Old Hollywood. The scene at Chateau Marmont’s Bar Marmont is as classy as the black and butterfly décor but just as sexy as the Sunset Strip outside. For a bit more view than the back of someone’s Armani blazer, escape to Casa del Mar to sip classic martinis from a sofa nestled against floor-to-ceiling glass which overlooks the crashing waves of Santa Monica. Despite the stiff seaside competition, the luxuriously restored renaissance revival design of Casa del Mar puts the life (and trendy L.A.) back into the lobby better than anyone.
Los Angeles is also a mecca for the exquisitely post-modern hotel; swanky sleek lines are softened only slightly by their Art Deco highlights and tragically hip clientele. Indulge in an all-encompassing evening out as only the W Hotel can offer. A dinner featuring local and organic ingredients at Nine Thirty can be followed just a few steps beyond the host stand in the elegantly minimal, red-hued Whiskey Blue lobby bar and lounge. The heat turns up late-night outside in The Backyard where sparkly black, icy silver and dark wood is accented by stylish patrons, discreet servers and the glow of turquoise water.
Trendsetting minimalism is also the key to the undying appeal of the Mondrian Hotel. A stately fixture perched on Sunset Boulevard, the Mondrian attracts the beautiful and elite to its exclusive Skybar. The unsuspecting oasis-like retreat is only complemented by the relaxed people watching from the lobby’s Seabar and irresistible bites from the white and bougainvillea trimmed Asia de Cuba restaurant.
Although the duo of Standard Hotels has reigned as the quintessential Los Angeles party spot from the pre-party to the afterparty, there is undeniably a local getaway for every palate, from the moody beats of the Viceroy to the luxurious lounge of the historic Art Deco landmark formerly known as the Argyle. Los Angeles has truly defined the art of hotel hopping through your nightlife, whether you’re a Marilyn Monroe or a Marilyn Manson.
review by Erika Leigh
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