Best hotels in Los Angeles

Los Angeles hotels split into two cities that barely speak to each other: the old guard scattered through the Hollywood Hills and Bel-Air, built for concealment and studio-era myth-making, and the newer towers of Beverly Hills that trade discretion for polish. What separates the top of this list is history that cannot be reproduced and grounds that cannot be built twice, not marble counts or turndown menus. Everything below the leaders is still very good, only working with a shorter story or a more recent address. The order below is fixed; what follows is the case for each place.

Chosen and ordered by our editor, checked against live inventory · guest scores from each hotel's own reviews · rates for 2026-10-09, one night, two guests

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Chateau Marmont★★★★★

9.1/10 guest score 216 reviews 5-star

Nothing else on this list carries the same weight of accumulated myth, and that alone earns the top spot. The Chateau, modelled loosely on the Loire's Château d'Amboise and built in 1929, still looks like a building that got the joke about Hollywood before Hollywood did: turrets, dark wood, a lobby lit like a film set nobody bothered to strike. Rooms vary wildly in size and shape, which is part of the appeal rather than a flaw, and the bungalows and penthouses are where the real privacy lives. Service leans into discretion over polish, and the place still trades on the idea that nobody will ask who you are. Book it for the atmosphere and the anecdotes, not for consistency; it suits guests who want a room with a past more than a room with a rainfall shower.”

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The Beverly Hills Hotel★★★★★

131 reviews from $1,457/night 5-star

+ $210 taxes & fees

Second place goes to a hotel whose pink-and-green stucco is as recognisable as any building in the city, and whose Polo Lounge has hosted more deals than most law firms. Built in 1912 and expanded over decades, it has the manicured, slightly theatrical grounds of old Beverly Hills, with bungalows tucked away from the main building for guests who want distance from the lobby traffic. The pool and cabana scene is famous for a reason, and the service carries the confidence of a place that has never had to try particularly hard to be noticed. It trades some of the Chateau's gothic strangeness for a sunnier, more manicured version of old Hollywood glamour. Best suited to those who want the legend with a bit more comfort and a lot more pink.”

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Hotel Bel-Air★★★★★

9.6/10 guest score 157 reviews from $1,491/night 5-star

+ $224 taxes & fees

Third place is a matter of setting as much as anything: eleven acres of gardens, swans on the ponds, and a canyon quiet that nothing else on the Westside manages. Rooms open onto genuine greenery rather than a view of a parking structure, with white bedding and spa-style bathrooms that feel more residential than hotel-issue. The pool sits away from the main building, shaded and slow, and the pace of the whole property is deliberately unhurried. It gives up some of the historical star power of the top two for a stronger claim on peace and privacy. This is the choice for guests who want seclusion over spectacle, and don't need to be seen doing it.”

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The Peninsula Beverly Hills★★★★★

9.6/10 guest score 215 reviews from $1,157/night 5-star

+ $174 taxes & fees · Free cancellation

Fourth place belongs to a hotel that plays it straighter than the top three: cream-toned rooms, a rooftop pool with skyline views, and Belvedere doing steady, well-regarded European brasserie food rather than chasing a scene. It sits close to Rodeo Drive, which suits guests who came to Beverly Hills to shop as much as to relax, and the service is polished in a way that reads more corporate-luxury than eccentric-legend. What it gives up against the top three is a sense of place particular to Los Angeles; this could, structurally, be a very good Peninsula anywhere. It suits business travellers and shoppers who want reliability over romance.”

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Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills★★★★★

9.0/10 guest score 264 reviews from $917/night 5-star

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Fifth place is the newest build here, and it shows in the amenities as much as the aesthetics: a rooftop pool and terrace, free bike rentals, flat-screen televisions, and rooms with the crisp, contemporary finish of a hotel designed rather than accumulated over a century. It sits within easy reach of the Petersen and LACMA, useful for guests treating the stay as a base for museum-going rather than a destination in itself. What it lacks against the four hotels above it is any real sense of history; the building has no old Hollywood ghosts to speak of. It suits travellers who want a modern, well-run stay in Beverly Hills without much interest in the mythology that surrounds it.”

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The Georgian, in The Unbound Collection by Hyatt★★★★

9.1/10 guest score 353 reviews from $550/night 4-star

+ $136 taxes & fees

The Georgian sits at rank six, a sliver-thin Santa Monica landmark from the late 1920s that has kept more of its original character than most beachfront survivors of that era. The rooms lean into that history rather than sanding it down, with Italian linens and Victrola turntables loaded with vinyl from Ubiquity Records standing in for the generic bowl-of-fruit gesture other hotels make. Many rooms look straight out to the Pacific, and the building's narrow footprint means the place never feels like it is processing crowds. It suits guests who want Santa Monica without the resort sprawl, and who like a hotel with some actual biography attached to the walls. What it trades away against the top of this list is scale and the full resort apparatus; this is a boutique proposition, not a compound.

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Shutters On The Beach★★★★★

9.2/10 guest score 766 reviews from $810/night 5-star

+ $69 taxes & fees

Shutters On The Beach takes seven, a shingled, brown-shuttered building that reads more East Coast beach house than California resort, planted directly on the sand at Santa Monica. The two restaurants, One Pico for the dressier meal and Coast for something looser, both work off the same ocean-facing terrace logic, and the pool and hot tub sit close enough to the water that the sound of it is never far off. The Living Room does the job of a proper hotel lounge, a place to sit with a drink and watch the light change rather than a passageway between other things. It is built for a couple or a family who want beach immediacy without giving up service, and it earns its place through that direct, unmediated relationship with the shoreline. Set against the top ranks, it plays a more straightforward beach-resort hand rather than the more singular design statement above it.

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Casa Del Mar★★★★★

9.2/10 guest score 615 reviews from $740/night 5-star

+ $69 taxes & fees

Casa Del Mar takes eight, Shutters' near-neighbour on the same stretch of Santa Monica sand, built originally in the 1920s as a beach club and still carrying some of that grander, more formal architecture. The signature oddity here is the hydrotherapy tub built into every room, an unusual bit of infrastructure that turns even a routine stay into something with a wellness undertone. Catch handles the raw bar and seafood work, while The Terrazza does small plates with live music and the same ocean view everyone comes here for. The pool and hot tub round it out for guests who want to spend a full day outdoors without leaving the property. It suits travellers who want the beachfront address with a slightly more polished, hotel-proper feel than its shingled neighbour, though it sits just behind that neighbour here on the strength of the overall stay.

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Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills★★★★★

9.2/10 guest score 248 reviews from $951/night 5-star

+ $144 taxes & fees

The Four Seasons Beverly Hills lands at nine, a hotel that trades ocean views for the quieter, more discreet register of Beverly Hills itself. Rooms open through French doors onto private balconies, a detail that does more for the feel of the place than most in-room amenities manage, and the air-conditioned interiors are kept comfortably plain rather than overdesigned. The spa and outdoor pool are handled with the calm competence you would expect from the brand, without any surprises attached. It is a hotel for guests who want reliability and privacy over spectacle, business travellers and industry types who need a base rather than a destination. Against the top of this list it reads as more formula than statement, well run but without a distinct architectural voice of its own.

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The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills★★★★★

9.0/10 guest score 1,307 reviews from $409/night 5-star

+ $116 taxes & fees · Breakfast Included

The London West Hollywood closes out the ten, a suite-only hotel that leans on space rather than setting to make its case. Every suite comes with a walk-in shower and soak tub combination, along with the flat-screen and iPod-dock furnishings that mark it as a mid-2000s build rather than anything older, and complimentary breakfast is a rare inclusion at this level. Boxwood handles the ground-floor dining in a straightforward California register, while The Rooftop trades on its view rather than any particular culinary ambition. It suits guests who want more square footage than a standard hotel room and don't mind trading a strong sense of place for it. Of everything on this list it is the least distinctive address, competent and comfortable but without the architectural or historical pull that carries the hotels above it.

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