Best Boutique Hotels in Los Angeles

The castle above the Strip has been Hollywood's discreet clubhouse since 1929 — garden bungalows, a jealously guarded patio restaurant, and more lore per square foot than any hotel in America. Rooms are eccentric by design. You stay for the myth, and it delivers.

Petit Ermitage hides on a WeHo side street with a rooftop garden, saltwater pool, and hummingbird feeders that make it feel like a secret. Suites mix gilt mirrors and velvet with working fireplaces. A romantic, slightly surreal alternative to the Strip's big names.

Hotel Erwin sits a half block off the Venice boardwalk, and its High Rooftop Lounge serves sunset over the full sweep of the beach — book the firepit sofas ahead. Rooms are colorful and casual, made for sandy feet. The boutique that actually feels like Venice.

A 1911 Craftsman bungalow turned nine-room inn on a walk street thirty seconds from the sand, the Venice Beach House trades TVs and minibars for wraparound porches and garden breakfasts. One of the last pieces of old Venice you can sleep in.

The Eastside's signature boutique pairs a compact, sun-drenched pool deck — the neighborhood's summer living room — with rooms done in warm plaster and vintage textiles. Sunset Junction's coffee, records, and restaurants are all walkable. LA's east side, distilled.

Each of Covell's handful of suites is decorated as a chapter in the life of a fictional novelist — and sits above one of LA's best wine bars on the Los Feliz-Silver Lake border. Book far ahead; the eastside's most beloved boutique barely markets itself.

The Hoxton occupies a 1922 Beaux-Arts office block on Broadway with a rooftop pool and taqueria overlooking the theater district's vintage marquees. Rooms are compact, clever, and fairly priced. The friendly front door to downtown's food and gallery scene.

Kelly Wearstler layered the Proper's 1920s Renaissance-Revival building with hand-painted tile, vintage furniture, and a rooftop pool bar that draws locals on weekends. Every corner photographs like a design magazine spread. Downtown's most transporting interior.