Best Resorts in Los Angeles

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Why Choose a Staycation in Los Angeles

While Los Angeles is known for its vibrant city atmosphere, the area also offers several resort-style hotels that provide relaxing amenities and scenic surroundings. Many of these properties feature large pools, spa services, and beautiful coastal or hillside views. Whether you’re planning a relaxing staycation or a luxury escape, Los Angeles resort hotels offer comfort, entertainment, and easy access to both the city and nearby beaches.

Best Areas for Resorts in Los Angeles

These Los Angeles areas are known for resort-style hotels offering relaxing amenities, scenic views, and convenient access to beaches, attractions, and outdoor activities.

01

Santa Monica

Santa Monica features beachfront resort-style hotels offering ocean views, spa services, and easy access to the beach and iconic pier.

Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows

Bluff-top resort feel

With bungalows in the gardens, a resort pool, and the beach down the bluff staircase, the Miramar is the closest Santa Monica gets to a true resort footprint. Spend mornings on the sand, afternoons under the fig tree, and evenings on Montana Avenue.

Shutters on the Beach

Toes-in-sand weekend

Shutters works as a resort weekend without a car: beach chairs and bikes from the hotel, spa treatments upstairs, and the pier's Ferris wheel a stroll north. Rooms have whitewashed shutters that open to ocean air. The complete Santa Monica beach stay.

02

Malibu

Malibu offers coastal resort-style stays surrounded by scenic cliffs, beautiful beaches, and some of Southern California’s most breathtaking ocean views.

Malibu Beach Inn

Carbon Beach, oceanfront rooms

Every room at the Malibu Beach Inn faces the water on Carbon Beach — 'Billionaire's Beach' — close enough to hear the tide under your balcony. The Carbon Beach Club restaurant keeps the view through dinner. Small, adult, and purely about the ocean.

Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club

Canyon ranch + beach club

Tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu, Calamigos pairs ranch bungalows under oaks and firefly lights with a members-style beach club on the coast a shuttle ride away. Mornings are canyon trails; afternoons are ocean. A genuine resort escape inside LA county.

03

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills hosts several upscale resort-style hotels with elegant pools, spa services, and convenient access to luxury shopping and dining.

The Beverly Hilton

Famous pool, Golden Globes

The Beverly Hilton's Aqua Star pool — the largest heated hotel pool in Beverly Hills — has anchored its resort reputation since 1955, and the ballroom hosts the Golden Globes every winter. Cabana days, Trader Vic's history, and Century City shopping next door.

The Beverly Hills Hotel

Cabana-and-bungalow resort

Between the garden bungalows, the cabana-lined pool where Faye Dunaway shot her Oscar-morning photo, and breakfast at the Fountain Coffee Room's curved counter, the Pink Palace functions as a resort in the middle of Beverly Hills. The staycation as time travel.

04

Palos Verdes

The Palos Verdes peninsula features scenic coastal resorts known for dramatic ocean views, golf courses, and peaceful surroundings away from the busy city center.

Terranea Resort

102 oceanfront acres, trails

Terranea spreads 102 acres across the Palos Verdes peninsula: four pools including an adults-only spa pool, a nine-hole cliffside golf course, tide-pool trails, and Catalina on the horizon. It's LA county's one true destination resort — no freeway required after arrival.

The Portofino Hotel & Marina

Sea lions off the balcony

On a Redondo Beach marina at the base of the Palos Verdes peninsula, the Portofino puts working boat slips and honking sea lions outside its waterside rooms. Bike the strand, dine at BALEENkitchen over the water, and let the harbor do the entertaining.

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