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The Beverly Hills Hotel has been in Beverly Hills since 1912, before the city was even born. Shamelessly glamorous, the hotel has been a playground to everyone from Rudolph Valentino to Howard Hughes to Katharine Hepburn. Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned with six of her eight husbands in the famously private bungalows. Some of the luxuries include an Olympic-sized outdoor swimming pool, two outdoor tennis courts, beauty salon, men's shop and limo service. Despite the decadent, the hotel remains refreshingly unpretentious, with service-oriented staff and the best original touches have been retained, like butler service at the touch of a button.
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Just a quick walk from the Pacific Ocean and mere blocks from posh Montana Avenue and the lively Third Street Promenade shopping area, these Moorish Mediterranean apartments are for travellers who are seeking a truly authentic Southern California beach experience. Built in 1927, these classically elegant individually furnished suites that offer period kitchens, separate bedrooms, antiques, iron beds and pristine 1920s bathrooms. Their stylish lobby is graced with a grand piano and a hand-carved reception desk, and ornate windows look out onto amazing formal gardens featuring fountains and native and exotic plantings and the Palisades Park.
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Originally constructed by Oil baron and Bel-Air Estates founder Alphonso E Bell for office space, years later, it was converted into this grand hotel in 1940. Compared by many to an Eden like oasis in LA’s busy metropolises, guests enter via a miniature bridge, which crosses the hotel’s signature Swan Lake with its cascading waterfalls. Inside the hotel, the antique furnishings will make any one feel like royalty. Guests can wander through 12 lushly landscaped acres, all secluded to ensure privacy. Guests seeking complete seclusion should ask for the Swan Lake Suite, which has a private entry gate.
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This huge hotel offers ocean views, in a setting, which successfully mixes the combination of contemporary and traditional Californian style. There is a sumptuous spa designed to lure those guests who put pampering high on their list of priorities, offering every kind of treatment known to the West Coast. The spacious guest rooms are described as 'Zen meets millennium’. As for location, the hotel can’t be beaten with its convenience to the Santa Monica beach its historic pier and Third Street Promenade shopping.
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Host to the very first Academy Awards in 1929, this hotel used to count Marilyn Monroe as a frequent visitor. These days the Roosevelt is celebrity free but a firm favourite amongst visitors for its heart of Hollywood location. The hotel is rumoured to be haunted by some of its former famous guests, including a mirror from Marilyn Monroe’s dressing room, in which she is said to appear occasionally. The hotel boasts three restaurants include the Cinegrill, Theodore’s Restaurant and Grand Central Coffee, the former infamous for its Champagne Sunday brunches.
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