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Last Batch of Mother's Day Brunches
Oh, you did it again, didn't you? You forgot Mother's Day and it's end of day on Friday. So, what is your sorry self gonna do, child? There's only one solution. Feed your momma! And the best way to do it is by treating her to the time honored...
May 10, 2013
Six Hotel Deals for Memorial Day Weekend
Deals: you want 'em, and surprisingly, everyone has 'em. Take a look at some of the latest hotel deals going around the internet today from booking sites, social media sites, flash sale sites and more. Don't forget to scroll down to see the HotelChatter-approved deal either. Who knows? You...
May 07, 2013
Coolest Hotel Instagram Of The Day Goes To...
...the Sunset Tower Hotel. What can only be described as one of the most thrilling events of last night's Golden Globe awards was President Bill Clinton taking to the stage and introducing a clip from "Lincoln", the nominated film from director Steven Spielberg. It was apparently an unexpected appearance,...
January 14, 2013
Jennifer Aniston's Presence Caused A Hotel Employee To Lose His Job
Remind us never to stay at the same hotel as Jennifer Aniston, as we might, in our star-struck, child-of-the-90s Friends nerd-dom accidentally get someone fired. At least, that's what happened last week in Santa Fe at the Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado, when a hotel employee got the boot for...
October 15, 2012
Seeing What Jennifer Aniston Sees from The Sunset Tower
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...
May 30, 2012
Jean DuJardin Brings a Little Golden Man To Play At Mondrian LA
There is one particular trend @HotelChatter happens to quite enjoy: candid hotel photos. These pics range from stunning views to anti-views to celebrity tomfoolery and everything in between. And we can't get enough of 'em! Every Monday, we commemorate our favorite hotel-themed snapshot du semaine. Got a favorite of your...
February 27, 2012
Good Luck Trying To Crash The Sunset Tower Hotel Oscar Bash
Madonna, sans bottoms, makes an appearance at the Sunset Tower Hotel with daughter Lourdes. It's no contest that the hottest post-Oscars spot is the Vanity Fair bash at the Sunset Tower Hotel, an uber-exclusive party attended by A-listers like Madonna, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal....
March 01, 2011
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Come Out on Oscar Night at the Sunset Tower Hotel
Everyone's still buzzing about last night's Oscars, including the predictable winners, the red-carpet ups (tangerine-clad Jennifer Hudson) and downs (Melissa Leo's heavy doily dress). But the real thing to gossip about is what happened at the the after-party: Justin Bieber and his cougar Selena Gomez came out as a...
February 28, 2011
The Sunset Tower Rooms Aren't Safe From Prying (Camera) Eyes
For all that talk that Jeff Klein gives about how his Sunset Tower Hotel is the most private of private celeb-friendly hotels and that his staffers are held to the highest of high non-disclosure standards, there's really nothing he can do about this view into his hotel, taken from...
March 03, 2010
The Sunset Tower Hotel Won't Tolerate Drunk Make-Up Artists
Drunk Make-up artists! Table8 Closes at Cooper Square! Jimmy Buffett's Buffet Hotel! Miley's Barely There Shorts! It always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on,...
December 18, 2009
What’s On The Block at the Sunset Tower Hotel?
We continue our What's On The Block: Los Angeles Edition with The Sunset Tower Hotel. This is a view from the hotel looking east.A couple weeks ago, we told you about all the power-plays and deal-making going on at the Sunset Tower Hotel. But this week, we're going to...
October 20, 2009
Don't Try Any Funny Business at the Sunset Tower Hotel (Hollywood Business is Ok)
According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Sunset Tower Hotel has become not only the latest haunt of entertainment industry heavyweights and deal-brokers, but has also changed the rules and raised the standard about how such a venue should operate.The illustrative anecdote provided by the...
October 05, 2009
Structure And Style On Display For West Hollywood Hotel Tour
Want to see where all the celebrities stay and party in Los Angeles, but don’t have the cash to actually get in? Spring for the $75 tickets, and take the "West Hollywood Structures & Style: Hotels on the Cutting Edge of Design" tour instead on Saturday, May 30 from...
May 04, 2009
Is The Sunset Tower the New Hollywood Roosevelt?
This recent item in Page Six about a recent debaucherous party at the The Sunset Tower had us a bit concerned. And it's not because we are distraught over the caliber of women that How I Met Your Mother cutie Jason Segel is dating--although it does worry us quite...
March 19, 2009
Andaz WeHo Now $169 a Night on Hotwire
When the old Riot Hyatt reopened as the Andaz West Hollywood (with a spiffy new interior and nightlife scene), the rates were holding steady around $295 a night. But thanks to this new deal on Hotwire, you can stay here for $169 a night during the week and $189...
March 11, 2009
The Oscar Parties Keep LA Hotels Kickin'
Last week we asked why the Sunset Tower was still in business. Or rather, we asked what was so special about the Sunset Tower that made the celebs go there so often — and what was so not special that we never heard anything about the hotel besides reports...
February 23, 2009
Who's Keeping the Sunset Tower in Business?
Time to get serious about the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood. We know, we know: we've been known to dish the occasional eye-roll in its direction due to the hotel's biggest fan (Jen Aniston, obviously) and the rest of the restaurant's celeb clientele. The hotel's name surfaces all over...
February 19, 2009
Someone Besides Jen Aniston Shows Up at the Sunset Tower
As the whole Internet may be aware by now, Jennifer Aniston goes to the Sunset Tower a lot. So much so that we ended up writing an open letter to urge her to change her hotel habits — and then we proceeded to ignore all reports of her showing...
February 04, 2009
Sunset Tower Will Host Vanity Fair Oscar Party
Some important news for Hollywood wannabes, celebrity stalkers and paparazzi alike--the Vanity Fair Oscar party is back on this year after skipping the 2008 Oscars in support of the Hollywood Writers' Strike. And where will Graydon Carter be hosting his hot shindig on Feb. 22nd? Why at Jennifer Aniston's favorite...
November 25, 2008
An Open Letter to Jennifer Aniston Regarding Her Hotel Habits
Dear Jennifer Aniston, Hey, girlfriend. Loved you on Oprah last week. And you know what? You're right: what Angelina did was very uncool, but it was also rather unfortunate that Vogue pulled that little tidbit from your interview and used it as your cover line on the front of...
November 19, 2008
Express Check-Out :: Los Angeles Rooftop Hotel Bars
Thompson Beverly Hills rooftop pool and lounge: Still just a rendering.Los Angeles doesn't need rooftop bars as much as Manhattan does because well duh! It's the land of the sprawl out here. Also, it's warmer most of the year (double duh!) and pools are about as de rigueur as nose...
May 21, 2008
The Oscars Are Good Business for Los Angeles Hotels
Our favorite Oscar win...We wonder what Los Angeles-area hotels would have done this past weekend if the Writers' Strike had forced the Oscars to be skipped. But thankfully for hotel owners, general managers, and sales/marketing teams, that didn't happen!Celebs and their entourages as well as media, wannabes and paparazzi flooded...
February 25, 2008
Heath Ledger: Gone But Not Forgotten By Hotelier Jeff Klein
We were looking forward to reading hotelier Jeff Klein's blog posts at the NYT The Moment blog. But unfortunately his third post had to be about something so tragic--yesterday's passing of actor Heath Ledger at age 28.Klein writes that Heath, then-girlfriend (wife?) Michelle Williams and their newborn daughter Matilda spent...
January 23, 2008
Hotelier Jeff Klein 'Freakishly Obsessed' With Hotels
Our 2006 Hotelier of the Year Jeff Klein has begun a guest blogging stint for the NYT mag's "The Moment" blog. As a blogger, he is going to be sharing some of his observations on the hotel world. But in his inaugural post, he dishes on why he got into...
January 21, 2008
New Years Eve Hotels: Los Angeles From East to West
Many of Hollywood's celebs are getting out of town to party in Las Vegas for New Years Eve, which means the streets of Los Angeles should be safe from any crazy celebrity drunk drivers (cough, Lohan, cough) and clusters of paparazzi stalkers. Although, we don't really know what Britney Spears...
December 17, 2007
The Plaza Hotel's Oak Room Desperately Seeking Celebrity Chef
With the Plaza Hotel to re-open in January, it's getting to be crunch time for the famous Oak Room restaurant. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair was looking to take over the legendary bar and restaurant last July but Page Six says that he has backed out.Carter partnered up with...
December 10, 2007
Sunset Tower Hotel Protects the Social Life of Celebrities From Nosy, Texting Reporters
Looks like the Sunset Tower Hotel is emerging as the real place for celebrities to go when they want to feel "normal". Or at least be surrounded by other celebs without having to worry if the paparazzi will be documenting their every more.Page Six reports that the Tower Bar at...
June 27, 2007
Best Hotel WiFi Spot: Sunset Tower Hotel
These days everyone is looking for four bar, non-complicated, hotel WiFi when they check in. Sure there are a bunch of hotel WiFi lists out there, but they are quickly out of date and unreliable. This week, as a lead up to our popular annual hotel WiFi report, we...
April 24, 2007
Hotelier of the Year: Jeff Klein
Hotelier of the Year Award: Jeff Klein Socialite-turned-hotelier Jeff Klein's first project, New York's City Club Hotel, which opened back in 2000, was met with a bit of ho-humness by guests and media alike. We checked in back in April and were equally nonplussed. However, earlier this year Mr....
December 29, 2006
Judith Regan Is This Close to Throwing a Phone at Sunset Tower Hotel Staff
Judith Regan, the embattled publisher of Harper Collins' Regan Books, and the woman responsible for signing OJ Simpson's infamous "confession" book was ousted the other day from her own imprint. The word around town is that Reagan was fired for making anti-semitic slurs to her co-workers.So what's a woman scorned...
December 19, 2006
Sunset Tower Hotel: Semi-Stream of Consciousness Hollywood Tell-All
Time to attempt a new review style, just to mix things up. Our semi-stream of consciousness Suset Tower Hotel review follows the jump. ...
November 20, 2006
Viewlicious: The Sunset Tower Hotel
[Photo Shoot by HotelChatter] Hotel: The Sunset Tower Hotel Floor: 12th Floor Room Number: 1204 Room Size: 300 - 350 sqft Current Price: $249 a night Highlights:"Frank Sinatra, who had a "bachelor pad" in the hotel, would lean over the edge of his terrace and call down, "Ava [Ava...
November 17, 2006
Live Hotel Look: The Answer Is...
...The Sunset Tower Hotel. Just in case you were wondering what the answer to this question was. Yup, the same place where Iggy Pop use to jump from the windows many stories up, into the swimming pool, allegedly. No, we didn't attempt an Iggy Pop, but we have...
November 16, 2006
Live Hotel Look: Guess The Hotel View
You are looking live at our current undisclosed hotel location somewhere in Southern California. For the past couple days, make that almost a week now, various and sundry tentacles of the HotelChatter team have been hanging out on the West Coast. While this means we have begrudgingly been up...
November 15, 2006
The Sunset Tower's Terrace Cafe Serves Actual Food
It's been awhile now since the Sunset Tower unveiled their viewlicious poolside cafe, The Terrace. But the place has stayed virtually on the down-low.Looking over the rooftops of L.A., an aquamarine lit pool, and the palms of California, The Terrace has both indoor and outdoor dining with a "casual" dress...
October 24, 2006
Where To Stay in Hollywood, When the Roosevelt Won't Have You?
HotelChatter Questions: In which, the intrepid HotelChatter editors and our hotel maven readers answer hotel questions that pop into our inbox. Have a question for us? Send it along. Have better answer than we gave, or better yet, want to give a vote of confidence to our answer? Comment...
October 05, 2006
Condé Nast Hot List: Four Cheers for U.S.A.
Out of 60 hotels on the Conde Nast Traveller Hot List for 2006, four of them are on U.S. soil. The Sunset Tower Hotel gets a nod because of "the pool and sun loungers, the spa, which has outdoor cabanas for treatments, and the bustling Tower Bar and restaurant, which...
April 11, 2006
Sunset Tower: "Half-Baked"
Just when we though the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles was making its way new information comes in courtesy of the New York Times.In the paper's Check-in, Check-Out review, they notice the rooms lack a little bit of logic: Even though the décor is understated and refined -- polished...
March 06, 2006
Sunset Tower Making Its Way
We got happy when we saw this morning that the NY Post has been in Los Angeles checking out some of the area hotels. Then we got sad. Why didn't you call us? Anyways, the paper was in town for the Oscars scope-out and hit up the Sunset Tower Hotel...
February 28, 2006
Sunset Tower's Twilight Zone with Six TV Channels
According to the LA Times, Art Deco landmark, The Sunset Tower Hotel (formerly the Argyle), looks amazing after the restoration and the Times gives kudos to the friendly staff, but apparently not to the actual rooms. A hotel news release says all 74 rooms have received head-to-toe makeovers, but...
January 30, 2006
The Argyle's Name Change
West Hollywood's Argyle Hotel has changed its name back to the Sunset Towers Hotel. Changing your name is par for the course in Hollywood, but the Argyle went retro with their new name. At one time, when the Argyle was the Sunset Tower Hotel, Howard Hughes, Bugsey Siegel, and...
November 23, 2005
Partner Reviews: Sunset Tower Hotel
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Breakfast on the terrace - do it -
The location of the premier awards season red carpet: it’s home to the legendary Vanity Fair Oscar® Party. -
Chocolate (light) fizzy creamcycle vodka cocktail 'the creamcycle fizz' will get you through the warm evenings like nothing else...see Brett. -
Try Derick's expresso martini, the stimulating martini that tastes great! It beats a Red Bull vodka by far...
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We love the old St. James's Club built in 1931 in striking Art Deco style. Just off the Sunset strip with a view of Hollywood at your doorstep. Makes us want to smoke a pipe and dress like Cary Grant. -
Check-in here to escape from the rest of the world. They have everything you need for a quick getaway or an extended stay. Balcony rooms are highly recommended. -
Old-school Hollywood. Saw Sean Penn there once on a quiet night at the bar. Friendly bartenders and yummy snacks. -
Incredible service, average amenities. -
Stay away from rooms on the 5th floor. Too noisy.
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Hotelier Jeff Klein continues to deliver the ultimate in hospitality. -
This Art Deco gem has a storied past (Clark Gable and Frank Sinatra called it home). Order a Plymouth martini at the Tower Bar and channel Old Hollywood. -
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Stay in a room with a balcony (very limited) for fantastic views of the Sunset Strip and Hollywood in general. -
Now they are back to not allowing outside people access to the pool unless you pay $75. LAME!! They do this every other year. -
Always order "The Dimitri" at the bar. He's also friendly as hell! -
Cool spot built in the 20's. Used to be the Argyle... -
Get your martini on with Jennifer Aniston! This is the former Friend's go-to spot for dinner or a drink; just make a reservation online. For lunch or dinner, try the casual poolside Terrace Bar. -
Very relaxed pool atmosphere for getting some sun and food.
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Solid dry martini
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