Best Boutique Hotels in Los Angeles
Los Angeles's boutique hotel scene is in West Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Venice — neighbourhoods where the city's creative industries have built something worth staying in.
Los Angeles is too large for a single hotel district, which makes neighbourhood choice everything. West Hollywood's Sunset Strip boutiques, Silver Lake's arts-adjacent properties, Santa Monica's beach-facing independents, and the Arts District's converted industrial buildings have all produced excellent boutique options that reflect different versions of what LA actually is.
West Hollywood & Sunset Strip
Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard is the most famous boutique hotel in America — an eccentrically managed Norman castle-style building where the rules have always been different and the clientele has ranged from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Led Zeppelin. The Sunset Tower Hotel is a 1931 Art Deco landmark with a pool terrace and a membership-driven social scene that remains the Sunset Strip's most exclusive address.
Silver Lake & Los Feliz
Silver Lake is LA's most walkable neighbourhood and the best base for the traveller who wants the city rather than the industry. The Paramour Estate in Silver Lake is a hilltop 1923 Spanish Colonial mansion with views from downtown to the ocean — twelve suites, no television in the common areas, a genuine sense of arrival.
Santa Monica & Venice
Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica is the best beachfront boutique hotel on the California coast — a clapboard beach house scaled up to hotel proportions, with a direct beach access that the inland properties can't compete with. Venice's boutique scene clusters around Abbot Kinney Boulevard and the canals; smaller inns and guesthouses here are the best value in the city for design-conscious travellers.
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