Shutters on the Beach
From the hotel:
Shutters on the Beach is more than just a spectacular place to stay, it is the epitome of the breezy lifestyle of Southern California. This captivating hotel is located directly on the sand and within walking distance of the biggest attractions of the area, including the Santa Monica Pier and literally hundreds of shops and restaurants. Immerse yourself in the warmth of seaside living, relaxation and romance in a hotel that exhibits all the charms of a well-appointed beach cottage.
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Hotel Coverage: Shutters on the Beach
These Hotel Beach Bags Are Worth Showing Off
The sun is shining, the water’s warm and a girl needs a chi-chi bag that’ll be able to keep up with her stylin’ swimsuit. These three hotels make it easy for you to do just that and here’s how to get your hands on 'em. If you’re a Starwood...
May 31, 2013
9 Hotels Where Lindsay Lohan Isn't Welcome
In light of recent events where Lindsay Lohan and her mother were allegedly turned away from Loews Santa Monica and Shutters, we have decided to create a running tab on where the starlet is not welcome to visit the lobby, much less reserve a room. Here's a tally of...
February 07, 2013
5 Yog-tastic Hotels In Los Angeles
How's this for a yoga studio? Los Angeles is a mecca for the yoga community, so it's no wonder there’s a heaping sun salutation's worth of glamorous hotels available for nomad yogis. Below, we've tracked down 5 of the hippest, most yoga-friendly hotels in LA for your next visit. Now,...
December 12, 2012
Coasting The Sunny Days Away at Coast at Shutters on the Beach
We love luxury hotels but we can't always afford to stay in them. Thankfully, hotels these days are way more than just rooms for paying hotel guests. Between visiting the lobbies, bars, restaurants, and spas inside these upper echelon hotels, it's practically as good as staying the night. Here's our...
April 27, 2012
The Kate Spade Bike Goes Round and Round at Shutters on The Beach
In Santa Monica, Calif. the June Gloom has finally lifted (on most days at least) to make way for perfect beach cruising weather. And now at the beachfront luxury spot, Shutters on the Beach you can do your cruising in high style, thanks to their new Kate Spade bikes....
July 22, 2011
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker Discuss Divorce at Shutters on The Beach
Could recently separated celebs Eva Longoria and Tony Parker be reuniting? Honestly, we don't care. We just want to know where they had their post-separation meet-up. TMZ reports that the duo had lunch at an LA-area hotel but surprisingly, TMZ didn't name the hotel. Yet we did some sleuthing...
December 02, 2010
Shutters on the Beach Makes a Cameo In New Thriller Read, The Human Bobby
In need of a good read this Labor Day Weekend? One of our VIP hotel reviewers (and disclosure, a close friend of HotelChatter), Gabe Rotter has just published his second book, The Human Bobby, and we're geeking out because a big hotel makes an appearance. Since writing about books...
September 01, 2010
10 Tricked Out Hotel House Cars
These days we've been noticing that hotels are trying to make our stays feel more like home. That's why we rarely see a hotel room without a flat-screen TV, an iPod dock, a stack of pillows on the bed and "home-like" decor. But doesn't that seem kind of crazy? Who...
August 24, 2010
Guests at Casa del Mar and Shutters Have a New Ride: The 2011 Jaguar XJ
What kind of car a hotel drives really shouldn't influence your stay (after all, this isn't a high school boyfriend you're deciding on) but when that hotel ride is a new 2011 Jaguar XJ, it's very hard not to be tempted by superficial desires. ETC Hotels, which include Casa...
August 17, 2010
Shutters on the Beach Now Offering iPads in Their Premier Suites
We're loving this! More and more hotels are offering iPads in their rooms for guests to use. The latest to join the cool tech crowd is Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica. The hotel now has complimentary iPads available in their Premier Suites for guests to use during...
June 29, 2010
Where to Find Hotels With iPads
One million people may have splurged on an Apple iPad but if you're not keen on shelling out $500+ for the hottest new gadget, you can get your fix at these hotels.* We'll be keeping tabs on hotels that offer iPads either for guest use in-room or in the...
May 05, 2010
Westin Has Sold 30,000 'Heavenly Beds' and We Want a Shower Head
So tell us have you ever really, really really ever loved a shower head? Bryan Adams-style? With all the thought put into the design and furnishings of a hotel, it isn't particularly surprising that guests would want to take a bit of it home with them — and these...
April 21, 2009
Gwyneth Paltrow Fancies Herself a Hotel Connoisseur
Gwyneth Paltrow's "Lifestyle" website, GOOP, is supposed to teach us all how to live like Gwyneth. Each section on the site — Make, Go, Get, Do, Be, See — contains links to weekly newsletters chock full of invaluable advice on how to do such things the way she wants...
December 11, 2008
Missing From Our Hotel Swag List: Ducks and Pencils
We're pretty geeky about knowing which of our favorite hotel room items we can buy to take home and enjoy, so when we found About.com's list of hotel swag we didn't really expect to learn anything new. Sorry, About.com people, but we think our hotel swag list is longer...
December 03, 2008
Guess The Hotel:: Call Girls for Charlie Sheen in Santa Monica
Page Six has the scoop on a new article from Rolling Stone about a high-end call girl service that once sent pretty girls to allegedly "work with" Charlie Sheen at a hotel in Santa Monica last year.Sheen's rep told the gossip column, "This is an old, old, old story."...
May 01, 2008
One Pico at Shutters Gets a Facelift
One of our personal favorite beachside Santa Monica hotels has got a new look inside. Eater LA has the scoop on the renovations completed at the One Pico fine dining restaurant inside Shutters on the Beach.The room will have a breezier look, lots of ocean blues (in this case teal...
April 16, 2008
Brady's Baby Momma Secretly Rejoicing at Shutters Hotel?
While Tom Brady was having the worst game of the season in the biggest game of the year yesterday, Bridget Moynahan (his ex-girlfriend and baby momma) was cool as a cucumber while brunching at Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica.Gossip Girls report: The "Recruit" actress was caught by...
February 04, 2008
Lindsay Lohan Blacklisted from Swanky Shutters on the Beach Hotel
So says Star magazine. The tabloid reports in its newest issue that serial rehabber Lindsay Lohan is now banned from the Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica after she spent three days in their holed up with her now ex-boyfriend Riley Giles. The terrible twosome reportedly spent...
December 07, 2007
Speaking of Hotel Restaurants....
Just to follow-up on our last post about the Oceana Santa Monica, we checked out another hotel restaurant this past weekend, Coast, at Shutters on the Beach.Originally, this was a casual beachfront breakfast and lunch spot called Pedals. After a big renovation the place is still a casual brunch spot...
September 11, 2007
Jennifer Aniston Not Too Big of a Celeb to Talk to Hotel Valet
Or at least we think she's talking to him. By the look on his face, he's definitely talking to her. But maybe Aniston was just trying to hide from the photographers as she lunched at Shutters on the Beach last week in Santa Monica, reportedly with her bad-boy date, Paul...
June 18, 2007
Angelina Jolie Has Disappointed Us in More Ways Than One
Angelina Jolie in addition to being a Brad-lover, a Third World-children lover, an airplane-lover and a tattoo-lover, is without a doubt, a hotel-lover. Her latest act of devotion to hotels? Paying $700 for two hours at Shutters on the Beach, so Maddox and her could freshen up after a day...
January 24, 2007
Pam Anderson Picks Shutters on the Beach as Her Divorce Hotel
Pam Anderson and Kid Rock had approximately four wedding celebrations for each of the four months they were married, before Anderson abruptly filed for divorce yesterday.Page Six reports that it was Pammy's appearance in the Borat movie that set Kid Rock off. Her friend tells Page Six, "Bob started screaming...
November 28, 2006
Hot Hotel Eats: One Pico
Hotels aim to pamper their guests and the ones that do it best are the ones where you never have to step outside the hotel to get what you need or want.One way of doing that is by offering great restaurants. This week, which is also Restaurant Week at select...
June 12, 2006
Cool Hotel Cars
One day we found ourselves driving along Ocean in Santa Monica and at a stop light, we noticed we were behind a black Mercedes Benz CLS-class coupe with the license plates "1PICO." Immediately, we knew this had to belong to Shutters on the Beach which is located on 1 Pico...
March 02, 2006
Sienna and Jude: So Wrong, It's Right
Giving new meaning to the word codependent, Sienna Miller and Jude Law have apparently--inexplicably--tried to resuscitate their on-again, off-again (and on-again, and off-again, ad infinitum) Beautiful Person love by bunking down at Shutters on the Beach, so reports E! Online's Ted Casablanca. Jude and Sienna are huddled up at...
November 14, 2005
SoCal's Shutters Offering Wonka-like Contest
Shutters on the Beach has jumped on the Willy Wonka PR train by hiding five blue tickets in its new Sunset Chocolate Bar. If you find one of these blue tickets you will win one free weekend stay at the participating hotel of your choice. The chocolate bars are...
August 08, 2005
Ten Hotel Spas: The ONE Thing for Beach Lovers
Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California sits on the beach next to the famous Pier, which is rare for a hotel in Los Angeles since there's usually a congested highway blocking the ocean access. Built in 1993 using traditional architecture inspired by the California beach scene of...
July 08, 2005
Partner Reviews: Shutters on the Beach
foursquareIDThe best place to stay in S. Monica
Whenever I visit Santa Monica, I will only stay at Shutters on the Beach. It is a beautiful hotel that sits on the beach. The rooms are ni...
The best place to stay in S. Monica
Whenever I visit Santa Monica, I will only stay at Shutters on the Beach. It is a beautiful hotel that sits on the beach. The rooms are ni...
Love their Cobb Salad
Yes, it is not cheap, but it's world class. Sitting on the beach, A/C, great food, top class service, if you want to treat yourself or impre...
REALLY COOL
Its a really cool hotel. nice art work. comfy beds. clean. smells good. they are all arounf good hotel and nice place yo stay
Shutters
Such a cute hotel to stay in. It feels like you're in the Hamptons. Definitely a great little getaway from the hustle and bustle of LA....and it's not that far!
One of the Premiere Wedding Spots!
Shutters is a great spot for a wedding. I've been a wedding photographer for many years and just love the way shutters looks in print, my couples love it and it makes a great setting for a beautiful wedding. I highly recommend shutters and suggest you visit their locations before making a choice. Some images can be viewed on my site at weldonsphotographydotcom
Awesome
Shutters on the beach is an awesome place to be. The chicks are hot, the service is good, and the food is awesome. I absolutely love this place. definately coming back again. specially since this is where i met my wife Daisy.
Poor standards at Shutters
I was given a $900 giftcard to Shutters&used it to spend the weekend there with my 8 yr old daughter on 6/29. I should have sold the giftcard&stayed somewhere else. I think Shutters gets high ratings because of the lack of options at the beach, not because of its excellent standards of service. If you want to be at the beach, stay somewhere where they are more courteous & professional. Don't stay at Casa Del Mar-it's the sister hotel of Shutters&is equally disappointing. Now, I may have high expectations, but I feel that when you stay at hotels such as Shutters, you want to relax & feel catered to (at $600 a night, I don't feel like that's a lot to ask). But I encountered numerous problems during my stay there. 1st-the valet staff is extremely discourteous. I invited 2 girlfriends to have lunch with me at the hotel. The 1st to arrive, a housewife driving a Honda with a 2 month old infant crying in the back was told to "Go find street parking" because she was "not a guest of the hotel" - when she explained she was visiting a guest they told her it didn't matter. She was unable to find other parking & had to turn around & go home. My 2nd friend to arrive (only 5 minutes later), a model driving a nice Cadillac sports car, was fawned over and welcomed by valet. Then, on the day I checked out, valet did not bring my car for 21 minutes. When they finally did, they didn't bring it to me, they parked it off to the side & ran off with my keys. When I asked why they did that & could I please have my car, the manager yelled at me that they were busy & that I had not been standing there (which was a lie). I was forced to call the front desk and ask them to come outside & sort out the problem. Last, I handed the gift card in upon checkout & was told their "system was down" so I had to leave it there. 2 days later, I saw that the entire amount had been charged to my credit card & none of the gift card had been applied. Management still has not resolved the issue & are impossible!
great local
this place is very lovely and the staff is too. we had a lovely stay. the restaurants are under constrction so it is hard to get a meal
Wedding Bliss
I got married here and it was beautiful. Honestly though, planning the wedding was a little difficult. I felt as though the wedding planner was a bit curt and it made me very uneasy, it was my wedding I was planning, a HUGE deal. I think she should have been a little warmer. But it turned out to be the most wonderful night of my life. If you marry here, get the seafood display for cocktail hour. It will impress the heck out your friends and family. The best part is, you need not decorate, you save a fortune in flowers etc...because the backdrop is the beach. My friends and family still talk about it! It was really my "dream" wedding through and through. Everything I could have ever imagined, including a drunk as hell father of the bride!
Hotel is Beautiful, the Pancakes awesome
Wife and I stayed a at Shutters for a little getaway. Wife wanted a little vacation from the ho-hum. Rooms were nice. but the best are the lemon ricotta pancakes at the resturant downstairs. price was $14 per plate, but worth every penny. My wife and I would stay again for sure.
Great escape!!
if you want to indulge and don't have time to go on vacation, you can check in one night in this hotel and you'll feel completely revitalize...
Shutters On The Beach
This place has to be one of the most captivating and beautiful places out there.. The only thing - Santa Monica is the WRONG beach for this ...
Best Hotel
This is one of my favorite hotels - great weekend getaway. Although a bit pricey the rooms are terrific - large baths, small balconies but ...
User review by vegakrush
Shutters on the Beach is a BEAUTIFUL hotel. Our room had a gorgeous view of the Santa Monica pier. Each and every employee of the hotel we encountered treated us with respect and a smile (and every attempt was made to fulfill any request we desired) At the time we visited, the hotel was undergoing some construction right above our rooms , so it was a bit noisy which was the ONLY drawback during our visit.
Weekend getaway
A nice and airy place very close to the beach. We spent a romantic weekend here and the place is very nice and simple. Basic Amenities , bit...
User review from Citysearch
As the name suggests, this hotel is right on the beach - lots of sand and sunshine a few steps away. The decor is simple: lots of white, bri...
Great place by the ocean
The rooms and suites are all white, as is the hotel. Great food at both Pedals (casual outdoor patio dining) and 1 Pico is great for special occasions.
Should be number 1
There are not enough words to express the quality of this hotel and its staff. I moved here from NYC and was fortunate enough to stay for awhile here. I recommend this hotel to all. The staff should be applauded
visit as a native
go to shutters for a drink or dinner. or hope that your friends from out of town stay there so you can visit.... top notch. best place on the ocean
Snuggle up at the beach
Although I haven't had the pleasure of staying here, I've seen the rooms, attended weddings and frequent the restaurants and bars often as a local. The ambience is lovely. Skip work early and enjoy champagne and shellfish on the patio overlooking the boardwalk or get cozy on overstuffed sofas that engulf you next to the fireplace. Perfect for holiday dinners and special occassions but why not make every day a holiday?
top notch
shutters is far and away one of the nicest beach front hotels around - located close to wonderful shopping, food, and entertanement - a must while visiting the santa monica area...
Perfect Wedding Night Romance
The incredible staff worked with my husband to create an unforgettable wedding-night retreat. Rose petals were strewn everywhere, bouquets perfumed the room and the staff was at our beck and call. The room was what every bride dreams of--romantic, elegant and peaceful. The Jacuzzi tub, jetted shower, plush robes and comfy bed delivered much-needed R&R. The next morning we received a delicious complimentary breakfast at the hotel's beachside Petals Cafe.
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