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Vicery, Los Angeles: Hotel Chic Lives On at the Viceroy

The Viceroy, Los Angeles has long been considered part of LA’s epicenter of cool. A stone’s throw from the beach in Santa Monica, the Viceroy could just as easily be LA’s answer to location, location, location.

Port of Los Angeles Cruise Lines: Two Popular Ships Dock in LA

Port of Los Angeles cruise lines just got a boost. Los Angeles has become the new home for two very popular ships, bringing to ten the number of cruise lines that regularly stop at or call this port home.

Hermosa Beach House: Best Bets By the Beach

The Hermosa Beach House, just minutes from LAX, is one of the few hospitality properties in greater Los Angeles to sit right on the beach. Guests get to watch the Pacific Ocean from their private balcony, furnished with deck chairs.

Boutique Bohemia at the Artisan Hotel

Visitors to Las Vegas who are looking for a little East Village, a little Cambridge, a mini-Berkeley or artsy Montreal off the Strip need only step inside the 62-room Artisan Hotel.

Jamaica Bay Inn: New Marina Del Rey Hotel by the Beach

Marina Del Rey Lodging recently received a lift from the Jamaica Bay Inn. The refurb and expansion of the former Best Western opened its doors in November at the choice spot on the city’s waterfront and made it into a comely destination experience. The Marina Del Rey hotel is a small one, boutique in fact, with only 111 rooms, but the property packs a lot of punch for location, views and dining for its size.

Beverly Hills Hotel's New Power Bungalows

As if the hotel could not get any ritzier than it already is, the pink, plush Beverly Hills Hotel is opening the palatial Presidential Bungalows in February.

Montage Beverly Hills: For a Complete Retreat

Elegance, class and privacy are part of the package with a stay at the Montage Beverly Hills.

Cruises out of Los Angeles to Mexico on the Carnival Splendor

Cruises out of Los Angeles are a hit with visitors who want to cruise to Mexico from Los Angeles.

Andaz Hollywood: New Look for old Rock ‘n Roll Hotel

In the ‘60s and ‘70s it was the Hyatt on Sunset Strip and had rooms to its name where people like Jim Morrison stayed, The Rolling Stones partied, and The Who hung out. Now it’s the Andaz Hotel, and it still gets plenty of celebrity attention in a city where you just cannot seem to put out enough cool.

Renaissance Hollywood: High Times

If you want to take Hollywood by the horns it is hard to get closer to the action than Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, right on the corner of Hollywood & Highland. The property abuts the Oscar-focused Kodak Theater and sits in the shadows of the Hollywood & Highland entertainment center with its buzz-worthy eateries and boutiques.

Figueroa Hotel: A Haven of Atmosphere in Los Angeles

If you’re looking for downtown Los Angeles, CA hotels, you’ll want to consider the atmosphere of the Figueroa Hotel. To walk into the lobby of the Figueroa Hotel is to walk into what feels like a scene out of America’s Most Haunted.

Shop and Flop in Beverly Hills

In L.A., the car is not just a vehicle. It’s a religion. Getting a coffee? Get in the car and drive to Starbucks. Seeing a movie? Make sure you head out 90 minutes before the screening to fight the traffic crawl and snag a parking space. But there is one place in this tarmac jungle where you can leave your car behind. Beverly Hills is one of the few places in the city where you can shop, dine, spa, exercise, get your beauty prep and your beauty sleep and never set your foot on the gas.

Pets Welcome at the Palomar

The Palomar Hotel in Westwood offers panache and pampering for pets and people.

Esotouric: Where Angelenos Fear to Tread

Finally there is a tour company that really speaks to the pulse of LA’s weirdness. Esotouric bills itself as offering Bus Adventures into the Secret Heart of L.A. Here you can see the ghosts of glamour’s past, notorious crime scenes, the tracks of the city’s grand “noir” element and a slew kitschy, weird and whimsical wonders along the way.

Las Vegas Hilton: High Times

The latest entrée into the king-for-a-day vacation in Las Vegas is the Las Vegas Hilton, which just recently opened its Classic Suites Collection to the high-flying tourist.

Hollywood's New Redbury Hotel: Painting the Town Red

Master of the night crowd, sbe founder Sam Nazarian, whose nightclubs in Los Angeles and hip go-to lounges have set a new bar in what Hollywood types call hip, is at it again. His latest project is right in the middle of Hollywood: the Redbury Hotel.

SLS Hotel: A Wonderland without Alice

You may stay at the 297-room SLS Hotel for the accommodations but most people come to the hotel just for the looking. The property produces the combined results of some of the biggest brains in design, hospitality and food, only to become a flagship for what is expected to be a new chain in retro forward hospitality under the SLS brand.