Waters Edge HotelThis may be San Francisco Bay — Tiburon is located on the north side of the Golden Gate, just around Richardson Bay from Sausalito — but there’s (...)
Viceroy Santa MonicaThe green glow through translucent glass is the only clue that there’s anything out of the ordinary going on behind the discreet (and unsigned) facade (...)
Viceroy Palm SpringsIt seems everything old becomes new again someday; who’d have thought geriatric Palm Springs could relive its glamorous glory days? Yet that’s just (...)
Ventana Inn And SpaBig Sur is the jewel of the California coast, one of the most spectacular places in North America, and Ventana Inn is Big Sur’s original luxury resort, (...)
Tower 23Poor overlooked San Diego — not even California’s second city, it’s long been overshadowed by Los Angeles, San Francisco, maybe even Orange County. (...)
Thompson Beverly HillsThe Thompson group continues its westward expansion with this Beverly Hills outpost, built from the bones of a Sixties-era chain motel on Wilshire (...)
The Standard Hotel Downtown LAIt wasn't so long ago that downtown Los Angeles after six P.M. was a ghost town. This is the case no longer, and it's thanks in no small part to the (...)
The Mosaic Hotel Beverly HillsLos Angeles seems, at first glance, uninterested in subtlety. Here what gets noticed is the biggest, the boldest, the most ostentatious—and getting (...)
The Standard HollywoodAbout the Standard Hotel Hollywood:The first of the cheap chic Standard Hotels from Andre Balazs, the Standard Hotel Hollywood is an affordable boutique (...)
The Ritz-Carlton, San FranciscoThis majestic neoclassical building was the headquarters of an insurance company before being converted to a luxury hotel in 1991, and today it’s (...)
The Ritz-Carlton Half Moon BayJust half an hour down the scenic Highway 1 from San Francisco, Half Moon Bay feels a world away; tucked between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Pacific (...)
The Peninsula Beverly HillsThe Peninsula Beverly Hills is almost impossibly opulent, even by Hollywood standards, a dressed-up Renaissance mansion in a deeply casual town. This (...)
The PearlIt’s an apt name for a hotel like this. The Pearl, in contrast with the rather more ostentatious boutique hotels of San Diego’s Gaslamp district, (...)
The Parker Palm SpringsThis hotel has racked up an impressive number of names in its seventy-year history. Once Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch estate, it was, for a time, the Merv (...)
The London West HollywoodThink of big-time luxury these days and you’ll probably find you’re thinking of New York and London — so it’s only fitting that some of the best (...)
The Lodge At Torrey PinesDesigned in a remarkably authentic Arts and Crafts style, and patterned after some of Greene and Greene’s historic Pasadena houses, the Lodge at Torrey (...)
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