Beverly Hills Hotel

Whether or not that’s true is irrelevant, but it shows just how glamorous the hotel locals dub “the Pink Palace” is in the eyes of all who walk past its doors. For Hollywood’s A-Listers, a stay here is a rite of passage. In Bungalow 5, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton spent their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week curled up in bed, and Hollywood’s most secretive love affair between Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn unfolded here behind closed doors for 25 years. If the walls of the Beverly Hills Hotel could speak, you would blush and send the kids to bed before regaling yourself for hours and hours on the gossip and trivia. Or, you could forget all that and make your own story. Enjoy alfresco breakfasts from your room balcony overlooking the hotel’s lush gardens where all the hubbub of 90210 feels like a lifetime away. Check-in to a pre-gala massage session at the spa or mingle with the Hollywood Elite at the Bar Nineteen12 before returning to your suite and taking a midnight dip in your private plunge pool. If you want to experience Beverley Hills like the other half do, this is the hotel to be in.