Detailed Review
The only AAA Five-Diamond and Mobil Five-Star hotel in southern California (for the 13th consecutive year), The Peninsula Beverly Hills strives to maintain its reputation for unsurpassed service. The hotel offers 196 luxuriously appointed rooms, including 36 suites and 16 private villas, nestled among lush, tropical gardens. Together with the incredible, cutting-edge Peninsula Spa and The Belvedere (named "Best Hotel Restaurant in Southern California" by the 2005 Zagat Survey), The Peninsula Beverly Hills provides the perfect, luxurious oasis in the heart of Beverly Hills.
Press Quotes
"Take advantage of the stunning service" at this French Renaissance property near Rodeo Drive. Rooms with marble bathrooms and oversized tubs have wireless Internet and, upon request, "stationery embossed with your name." The Peninsula Suite even has a baby grand piano. Try the pan-roasted barramundi at The Belvedere; the Living Room offers 19 different brews at afternoon tea. At the spa, get a treatment with Shiffa products, including gem-saturated oils." Conde Nast Traveler 07
"The new 42,000-square-foot spa at the Peninsula, in Beverly Hills, has waterfalls, dark brown cork floors, and periwinkle-blue carpeted walls. Try a gemstone oil massage, with products imported from Dubai." Travel+Leisure 06
"The Peninsula's general manager, Ali Kasikci, is one of the world's best hoteliers and his professionalism shows in the little things. I love the fact that the hotel operates a 24-hour room system, for example, so they don't chuck you out at 11am like most other hotels. You can keep your room until whatever time you need to leave for your flight. It's so civlised and illustrates an attitude that's about making guests feel important, not making housekeeping easier.
The rooms are light and luxurious, the style is pared-down classic meets contemporary. They're very comfortable but, really, this place is about the ambience of the public areas. It's fun to be like the Angelenos and have an early-morning workout in its great gym, followed by breakfast on the rooftop patio by the pool, and look back over the Hollywood Hills, or hire a pool cabana for the morning. Ladies who lunch and movie moguls love its Belvedere restaurant; Sunday brunch here is an institution. Sly Stallone was sitting at the next table last time I was here. There's always an energy and intimacy about the place." Times 06
Independent Reviews
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"A top-notch Beverly Hills luxury hotel that attracts a glamourous crowd, not least for its renowned restaurant, The Belvedere."
This plush Los Angeles hotel, set in the middle of Beverly Hills (just across the road from Rodeo Drive), avoids the trappings of OTT Hollywood swank, offering instead an elegant, almost understated air of chic comfort.
The Peninsula Beverley Hills
By Daniel Scott
It is wall-to-wall celebrities at the nearby Peninsula Hotel, even if its French renaissance style frontage marks it out as a very different kind of property from other hotels in this area. The Beverly Hills Peninsula nearly lives up to the standards of the chain’s Hong Kong flagship. True, the grandness of this Peninsula on Santa Monica Boulevard does make it feel a little remote, and the feverish Hollywood deal-making going on throughout its public areas is irritating. But the hotel positives weigh heavier, from notable touches like pillow cases monogrammed with guests’ initials to the hotel’s exceptionally helpful concierge. The rooms are pretty too, dominated by king-sized beds draped in luxurious linen and chock-full of useful technology. If you want to feel you have arrived LA-style then take a dip in the open-air rooftop pool with the Hollywood Hills looming in the background.
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