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Los Angeles is spread over more than a hundred square miles, but there are no more than 10 in which it is really worth spending any time.
It's difficult to differentiate between Monday and Saturday on the streets of L.A., as the beautifully unemployed and decadently wealthy occupy Starbucks and local gyms throughout the day and spend their weeknights out on the town. If you can't see the hills or the beach, you're probably lost -- or just not in the right part.
Here's where you should be, right now in Hollywood:
Sexy Sleeping Arrangements
The best hotels are located in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. West Hollywood offers a nightlife Mecca, and its hip shopping scenes, like
Sunset Plaza and
Robertson Boulevard, are popular with Hollywood's starlet set. Beverly Hills is more upscale, but also older, with tourist havens like the stores on
Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard. Santa Monica is a newer groove, with historic 1920s hotel palaces and a burgeoning artist community.
Chateau Marmont's (West Hollywood) Gothic-inspired French chateau overlooking the Sunset Strip offers prime celebrity sleeping chambers and a bungalow pool area popular with Jonathon Reece-Myers, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sienna Miller. On weekends, a room key or famous face is the only assured entry to the lounge and garden restaurant.
The
Sunset Tower Hotel (West Hollwood) is hotelier Jeff Klein's (of New York's City Club) impeccable recreation of the historic St. James Club. The rosewood-paneled lobby features the uppity Tower Bar Restaurant where you'll often see Jennifer Aniston slinking out the back.
The
Regent Beverly Wilshire (Beverly Hills) was famous even before the movie
Pretty Woman, but with hot new restaurants like Boulevard and CUT in the lobby, it is hotter than ever. Famous faces that can be seen here include Tom Cruise, Victoria 'Posh' Beckham and Jennifer Lopez. Ask for a room in the original building for period bathrooms and classic Hollywood architecture.
Viceroy Hotel (Santa Monica), designed by Kelly Wearstler, is one of Santa Monica's most stylish properties, located between the Santa Monica Pier and hip Main Street. Glamorous guest rooms have head-on ocean views and Rita Hayworth sex appeal. The quirky-chic lobby and cabana pool area are weekend hotspots for local surfer professionals.
Michael Martin
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