L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
An all-suite Beverly Hills retreat on palm-lined Burton Way, with 116 residential-style suites, a heated rooftop pool and Costa Covo's coastal Mediterranean cooking, a short walk from Rodeo Drive.
The Peninsula Beverly Hills
Set in tropical gardens a short walk from Rodeo Drive, this French Renaissance-style hotel pairs private garden villas with a rooftop pool, The Peninsula Spa and afternoon tea in The Living Room.
Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel
A 1928 Italian Renaissance landmark at the foot of Rodeo Drive, with Wolfgang Puck's CUT steakhouse, a Mediterranean-style pool and a spa set around a giant amethyst geode.
Regent Santa Monica Beach
A beachfront hotel on Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue under IHG's Regent flag, with Pacific-facing rooms and suites, an outdoor pool and the sand and the pier a short stroll away.
Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills
A Four Seasons on residential Doheny Drive where every room has a balcony, with a palm-fringed fourth-floor pool terrace and a long role at the heart of Hollywood's awards season.
The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey
A waterfront Ritz-Carlton on the yacht basins of Marina del Rey, with a heated saltwater pool, Sisley Spa, tennis and pickleball, and Cast & Plow's marina-view farm-to-table dining.
The Hollywood Roosevelt
The 1927 Spanish Colonial landmark on Hollywood Boulevard where the first Academy Awards were held, with David Hockney's painted Tropicana Pool, a cabaret theater and vintage bowling lanes.
The Maybourne Beverly Hills
The Californian sibling of Claridge's and The Connaught, one block from Rodeo Drive beside Beverly Cañon Gardens, with collectible art, a ninth-floor rooftop pool and Dante's aperitivo-style bar.
Hotel Per La
Downtown Los Angeles's 1922 Bank of Italy building turned hotel, with soaring vaulted ceilings, Ristorante Per L'Ora, Bar Clara and a rooftop pool and bar facing the skyline.
Shutters on the Beach
A Cape Cod-style hotel set directly on the sand of Santa Monica Beach, with ocean-view rooms, the 1 Pico dining room, ONE Spa and a poolside terrace near the pier.
Hotel Casa del Mar
A 1926 Renaissance Revival beach club reborn as an oceanfront hotel on Santa Monica's sand, with Pacific-view rooms, a grand Lobby Lounge, a terrace pool and a full-service spa.
The Surfrider Malibu
A reimagined 1950s motel turned 20-room beach house on the Pacific Coast Highway, overlooking Surfrider Beach, with a guests-only roof deck restaurant and surfboards on loan.
Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows
Santa Monica's historic bluff-top resort, spread over five garden acres around a towering Moreton Bay fig, with 1930s bungalows, a 1950s Ocean Tower, FIG restaurant and the EMWell spa.
Sunset Tower Hotel
A 1929 Art Deco tower on the Sunset Strip, Hollywood's grand dame hotel, with panoramic rooms, the celebrated Tower Bar and a terrace pool looking out over the whole of Los Angeles.
The West Hollywood EDITION
Ian Schrager's EDITION at the western end of the Sunset Strip, with calm, light-filled rooms facing the city or the hills, a rooftop pool and bar, Ardor restaurant and its own nightclub.
The Langham Huntington, Pasadena
A grand Pasadena resort welcoming guests since 1914, with 17 acres of gardens, a covered Picture Bridge, The Royce steakhouse, Chuan Spa and two outdoor pools near the Huntington Library.
Fairmont Century Plaza
Minoru Yamasaki's 1966 crescent on the Avenue of the Stars, reborn after a landmark restoration with 400 balconied rooms, Lumière brasserie and a Forbes Five-Star spa in Century City.
The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles
Rooms set high in a downtown tower at L.A. Live, with Art Deco-inspired interiors, a 26th-floor rooftop pool and bar, a full-service spa and the Latin American steakhouse Sendero.
Conrad Los Angeles
Set in Frank Gehry's The Grand LA opposite Walt Disney Concert Hall, with Tara Bernerd interiors, José Andrés restaurants, a rooftop pool terrace and Conrad Spa on Grand Avenue's arts corridor.
Malibu Beach Inn
A 47-room beachfront inn on Malibu's Carbon Beach, nicknamed Billionaire's Beach, where every room has an ocean-view balcony and Carbon Beach Club serves Californian cooking above the waves.
Santa Monica Proper Hotel
A Kelly Wearstler-designed wellness hotel joining a 1928 Spanish Colonial Revival landmark to a modern wing, with 262 rooms, the rooftop restaurant and pool Calabra and the Ayurvedic Surya Spa.
1 Hotel West Hollywood
A nature-inspired hotel on the Sunset Strip at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, with reclaimed-wood interiors, a rooftop pool and Harriet's bar, 1 Kitchen and the Bamford Wellness Spa.
Hotel Figueroa
A 1926 Spanish Colonial landmark first built as a haven for professional women travelers, restored with 268 rooms, a coffin-shaped pool among gardens and celebrated cocktail bars in downtown LA.