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West Hollywood’s Best Hotels: From Rock Star Villas to Sky-High Suites

By Eric Barton | Nov. 24, 2025

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AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has covered hotels and restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.

You can tell a lot about someone by where they decide to sleep in West Hollywood. Some people want the hotel to behave like a witness protection program: dark corridors, thick walls, and a staff who would rather eat their room keys than leak a story.

Others want a rooftop pool that doubles as a casting call and a lobby that looks like it was designed by someone who has never heard the phrase “too much marble.”

After spending a few nights up here on the hill recently, I started to see how much the hotel scene mirrors Los Angeles itself. There are storied places where they’ll tell you John Wayne kept a cow on the balcony so he could have fresh milk every day (even if it’s maybe not true). There are places that were clearly designed with Instagram in mind. And there’s a few that do a great job feeling like you’re actually outside, surrounded by plants and reclaimed wood, even when you are on the 15th floor. Somewhere between the musician hideouts, serviced residences, and eco-towers is the version of West Hollywood that fits you.

These are the properties that actually define the neighborhood right now—not just where you crash after dinner, but where the stay itself becomes the main event.

1 Hotel West Hollywood

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1 Hotel West Hollywood is what happens when someone decides the Sunset Strip should apologize to the environment, or at least send it flowers. LEED Silver–certified and wrapped in reclaimed wood, living walls, and native greenery, the hotel leans hard into sustainable luxury, from energy-efficient systems to rooms that feel more like minimalist treehouses than standard issue boxes. Up top, there is a pool and Harriet’s Rooftop for city-spanning views, while downstairs 1 Kitchen and the Bamford Wellness Spa handle the “mindful brunch and facial before noon” crowd.

Best for: People who want a rooftop cocktail and not feel guilty about it

AKA West Hollywood

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AKA West Hollywood is essentially an upscale apartment building that happens to treat you like you’re on a film shoot instead of a lease. Perched at 8500 Sunset, the serviced residences come with floor-to-ceiling windows, full kitchens, in-suite laundry, and enough square footage that you are not brushing your teeth over your suitcase, plus a resort-style pool deck, Technogym fitness center, private screening room, and residents-only lounge. It is the place productions use when they need to park talent for a season, which means the crowd in the elevators is just as likely to be Dancing With the Stars contestants as it is business travelers on month three of “I kind of live in L.A. now.”

Best for: Long stays with a proper kitchen and a rooftop pool

Andaz West Hollywood

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Andaz West Hollywood is the Sunset Strip hotel that has quite literally seen some things. Once known as the Continental Hyatt House, it earned the nickname “Riot House” thanks to the rock bands who used to test gravity from the balconies. These days it has settled into a more grown-up but still music-obsessed version of itself, with a lobby that doubles as gallery space, with curated cultural programming and nods to its touring-days past. The pool, one of the highest in Los Angeles, looks out over the city and the Hollywood Hills, and the hotel’s bar and restaurant, Riot House, keep the food and drinks at a level that justifies staying in instead of chasing a reservation down the street.

Best for: Anyone who secretly wishes they were in a band, but also appreciates good air-conditioning

Chateau Marmont

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Chateau Marmont is less a hotel and more a myth you can sleep in. Opened in 1929 and modeled after a Loire Valley castle, the property’s suites and bungalows have been home to generations of actors, musicians, and people who prefer their scandal with room service and heavy drapes. These days it still trades on that aura of discretion, with thick walls, lush grounds, staff who are very good at pretending not to notice you, plus a restaurant and bar that feel like the last place in Los Angeles where time is allowed to move slowly.

Best for: Privacy-seekers who want the full old Hollywood fantasy, preferably behind sunglasses

Mondrian Los Angeles

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Rooms at the Mondrian, with their dreamscape-meets-gallery aesthetic, generally have two view choices: the stunning curving roads up into the mansion-filled hills, or the endless-looking Los Angeles metro splayed out below. But the real action is at the Skybar pool deck, where an open-air pavilion and loungers come with some of the best city views in West Hollywood. It is busy, social, and unapologetically scene-y in a way that makes ordering one more drink feel like part of the booking.

Best for: Travelers who consider “good pool crowd” a legitimate amenity

Palihouse West Hollywood

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Palihouse West Hollywood feels like a neighborhood inn that accidentally wandered into the middle of the city. Sitting at W 3rd Street and Orlando, the 95-room property leans into Palisociety’s signature “Euro-in-LA” thing, with eclectic decor, an indoor-outdoor pool lounge, and a Lobby Lounge Café and Bar that does all-day coffee, cocktails, and California-skewing plates. It is the kind of place where you might see locals on laptops in the morning, someone’s birthday gathering by late afternoon, and a full bar of people who all insist they “live just around the corner” by night.

Best for: Feeling like you’re staying at a stylish friend’s place

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Sunset Marquis Hotel & Villas

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Sunset Marquis is the unofficial campus housing for the music industry. Just off the Strip, the hotel sprawls across three and a half acres of gardens with 152 suites and villas, two pools, and pathways that seem designed for slipping off to your next meeting—or avoiding one entirely. Cavatina handles the al fresco dining, Bar 1200 is a compact cocktail bar with a big rock ’n’ roll history, and NightBird Recording Studios and the Morrison Hotel Gallery make it entirely possible to work, record, and celebrate without ever leaving the grounds.

Best for: Musicians, movie stars, and people who just like to be near them

Sunset Tower Hotel

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Sunset Tower Hotel is where West Hollywood dresses up and remembers it has impeccable bone structure. The Art Deco landmark on the Strip pairs compact but carefully detailed rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and city views, but most of the life happens downstairs at the Tower Bar and on the terrace, where power lunches, Golden Globes hangovers, and low-lit martini nights all share the same banquettes. It is a place that feels both glamorous and lived-in, the rare hotel where locals actually book staycations and the owner is known to work the room like a host at a very chic house party.

Best for: Old-school glamour with just enough Hollywood drama

The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills

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The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills is what you book when you need space—real space, not “we put a chair in the corner” space. Almost all the accommodations are suites, with oversized bathrooms, walk-in showers, soaking tubs, and, in many cases, private balconies, plus a rooftop pool with cabanas and unobstructed views that run from the Hills to downtown. Boxwood, the on-site restaurant led by executive chef Anthony Keene, keeps guests well fed with British-accented, California-driven menus, so you can absolutely spend an entire day rotating between pool, suite, and bar without feeling the need to leave.

Best for: Suite life types who want the rooftop pool to match the room

The Sun Rose Hotel

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The Sun Rose Hotel is one of the newest faces on the Strip, a compact tower that feels built for people who treat West Hollywood as a temporary home base rather than a full resort. Rooms come with hardwood floors, walk-in showers, big entertainment systems, and either skyline or Hollywood Hills views, plus 24-hour room service and pet-friendly policies that make it easy to bring your life along for the ride. Downstairs, Ospero by Wolfgang Puck anchors the food side of things with a breakfast-and-brunch focus that turns the corner of Sunset and Olive into a surprisingly civilized place to start the day.

Best for: When it’s about rooms and location, not a lobby scene

The West Hollywood EDITION

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The West Hollywood EDITION is the big modern statement piece of the neighborhood. Co-created by Ian Schrager, the hotel’s 190 rooms, 48 suites, and two penthouses lean into pale woods, floor-to-ceiling glass, and views that make you feel like you’re hovering above either the Hills or the city, depending on which side you draw. Ardor brings the vegetable-forward dining, The Roof and its pool deliver the full Sunset Boulevard panorama, and the Lobby Bar turns “meeting for one drink” into a recurring event.

Best for: Travelers who want the hotel itself to feel like the main character in the trip