You might do a double-take today when you see a royal guard in a furry black hat standing stoically outside of the Beverly Wilshire. It looks like the guy got lost on his way to Buckingham Palace. Of course, it's just the latest case of royal wedding fever among...
April 29, 2011
Crispy polentayummm. We always feel bad for our globe-trotting vegan friends. When they dine at hotels, they are stuck with practically no options on the menu, and the choices they do have are basically limited to lettuce. But a number of hotels are trying to cater to the meat-free,...
April 13, 2011
Hotel beds and wine oclock: two of the loves of Piers Morgan It was as we were perusing the website of Hotel du Vin, the posh, claw-bathtub-and-rubber-ducky-included-as-standard boutique British chain, the other week, that we noticed a familiar face: Piers Morgan. Yes! Ebullient Piers riffing on the joys of...
March 18, 2011
A Black Swan! While Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams are likely scrambling to get the perfect ensemble and prepping their acceptance speeches for Sunday's Oscars, hotels are gearing up for the big night with a slew of cocktails, eats and par-tays so ordinary folks like us can join in...
February 24, 2011
The Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire is getting really cheesy. That's because the hotel just started dairy-filled raclette night every Thursday in its BLVD restaurant. Raclette is a traditional European dish, but for some reason it hasn't yet caught on in the U.S. Basically, Swiss raclette cheese is melted either...
January 28, 2011
We're not going to lie, we're getting kind of jealous of the Jersey Shore crew. That's because they've gone from bunk beds and tanning salons in Sleazeside Heights, New Jersey to the finest hotels in the country. While the Jersey Shore chicks attempted a ladylike lifestyle at The Surrey,...
November 18, 2010
Last night we ventured over to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to attend the kick-off of BritWeek 2010, an annual celebration of the accomplishments of Brits in the entertainment industry. Of course, the biggest thing on everyone's mind was the volcanic Ash and there were quite a few ashy jokes being...
April 23, 2010
When we toured the SLS Hotel a few months ago, we thought that hands-down this would become the hotel for celebrities to be seen and in fact, much of the hotel's suites and conference rooms were created with press junkets and celebrity events in mind. Yet having Chris Brown...
March 06, 2009
So the Los Angeles Lakers are in the NBA Finals this year. (Um...yay?) Should you find yourself needing a hotel room in Los Angeles to cheer on the Lakers, or either the Detroit Pistons or Boston Celtics, we've put together a few selections for the different types of fans....
May 30, 2008
No Friday Night Lights at the BLVD this summer.The Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire held a "Dine by Candlelight" dinner at their BLVD restaurant to conserve energy in honor of Earth Hour last month.Well it musta been a hit with rich tree huggers and romantics alike because the hotel is continuing...
May 02, 2008
Hotels are slowly moving beyond the bar, nightclub and restaurant trend to add some hip retail spaces in their properties. Of course, this is nothing new as some hotels have been doing this already for a long time. But what is news is the report of a Louis Vuitton store...
April 30, 2008
With Earth Hour coming up this Saturday, we hope you're all working out where you're going to be when you turn the lights out for an hour to remind us all about conserving energy. We previewed the special "Dine in the Dark" menu at the Observatory Hotel in Sydney,...
March 26, 2008
Guess who dined at Cut last night at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire? Yup. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. This time they brought along Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and his wife. When TomKat is in Los Angeles, they probably eat at Cut once a week. We can't blame them as...
March 06, 2008
Ever had trouble trying to pick a special piece of jewelry for someone important in your life? What you needed was a Jewelry Ambassador. Now a good jewelry ambassador is not always easy to find, but if you stay at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills...
November 28, 2007
As Southern California continues to burn, area hotels are filling up fast.The AP reports that in Los Angeles Shutters on the Beach and the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica along with the Beverly Hills' Peninsula and both Four Seasons hotels--the Beverly Wilshire and the Los Angeles Hotel--are booked solid this...
October 24, 2007
Thanks to commenter DanS we were pointed to a CNN article that mentioned the Malibu Beach Inn owned by Hollywood mogul David Geffen, is hosting firefighters and rescuers who are battling the Malibu fires. Even better, Geffen's spot is hosting them for free.First built in 1989, the 47-room hotel recently...
October 23, 2007
Yesterday we spent our afternoon doing errands and eventually made our way over to Beverly Hills...such is our life. But we made sure to make it work-related. · First we drove by Thompson Beverly Hills which is still covered in major scaffolding. Still the Thompson peeps are very sure of...
October 19, 2007
As we write this, Britney Spears has probably checked in and out of yet another hotel but we'll do our best to keep you posted on her whereabouts. You know, in case you wanna compliment her on how crappy her comeback video is for "Gimme More."Last we heard of Brit...
October 05, 2007
As we reported on Monday, Regent Hotels has dropped out as manager of the now-formerly-named Regent South Beach Hotel, despite having just opened the place eight months ago. Instead, Vinnci Hotels is taking over the place although they have yet to update their website to include this hotel.A HotelChatter reader...
September 19, 2007
The college football season is in full swing, so we here at HotelChatter are doing our best to help you fans support your alma mater in the best way we know how, with our College Football Hotel Map, a guide of where to stay when you attend the games. First...
September 17, 2007
The newest game in the hotel deals market is 14Trips, a high-luxury-low-price aggregator service that hopes to put people in nice hotels instead of "99-dollar Orlando specials." Sorry, Orlando. Right now, the site has 369 hotel deals on offer with more to come in the next couple of weeks. But...
August 30, 2007
The specialized concierge trend in the hotel world has so far included a shopping concierge, a spa concierge, a doggie concierge and even an iPod playlist concierge.But now the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire has introduce a new type of concierge--The Teen Concierge. Thankfully, the position is not staffed by a...
August 13, 2007
Last week, we were hanging out at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire (Ok, we confess. We hit up the spa) and on our way out we spied this silver Rolls Royce Phantom just idling in front.Of course, this car could have belonged to any one of the hotel's celebrity clientele...
August 08, 2007
This has been a stellar season of Entourage for hotels, particularly for the Four Seasons Beverly Hills.E and Vinnie hit up the hotel's BLVD restaurant with crazy director of "Medellin" Billy Walsh and famed movie critic Elvis Mitchell. Earlier in the season, the crew trooped into the hotel's Cut restaurant...
July 16, 2007
Kate Somerville swag bag!The other night we were invited to attend the celebration party of celebrity skin guru Kate Somerville who has lended her name, treatments and products to the spa at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire. The party was hosted by Grey's Anatomy alum Kate Walsh who is starring...
July 02, 2007
One of the perks of living in Los Angeles, and there are not many, is that you can drop in on some of the bars and restaurants that you read about in weekly tabloid magazines. In our sad shallow minds, yes, this qualifies as a perk.Over the weekend, a friend...
June 13, 2007
A hotel in Japan is very very sorry today. Sorry that they ever allowed a bathtub made of 18 karat gold and worth nearly $1 million to sit in one of their shared bathrooms for men unguarded and unprotected, thus allowing some clever thieves to haul it out of the...
May 30, 2007
The Today Show's travel detective Peter Greenberg reported live today from the Grand Hyatt at the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport about hotel theft. And he doesn't mean, people stealing your valuables out of your hotel room. No, he's talking about hotel guests that make off with more than just the shampoo...
May 22, 2007
Last night's episode of Entourage was the second episode in a row that the boys took a trip to the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel.Two weeks ago, Vince, Eric and Ari met with a movie producer for lunch while last night, Vince and Eric met with a movie financier's wife...
May 21, 2007
The Beverly Wilshire Hotel has undergone several much-needed changes in the past couple of years, all of which have injected a rush of new life into the hotel. First, they unveiled the BLVD restaurant--transforming the hotel's formerly stuffing dining room into a hip, see and be-seen type of place, popular...
January 15, 2007
This week on Black Friday, most of you shoppers will be headed to the nearest mall or Target, Lowes and Sears for the unreal shopping prices, not to mention the unreal hours. So in the spirit of holiday shopping, we thought we would take a look at some of the...
November 21, 2006
Click Here to Go Straight to the HotelChatter Hollywood Star MapSpeaking of bathrooms, you shall never have to worry about mold when visiting the stalls of Beverly Hills hotels.LA.com listed the Regent Beverly Wilshire, the Raffles L'ermitage and the Peninsula Beverly Hills has having some of the city's most decadent...
September 08, 2006
HotelChatter Hollywood Star MapThe Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire is best known as the "Pretty Woman Hotel" where Julia Roberts played a hooker with a heart of gold and sang in the bathtub (back then it was called The Regent Beverly Wilshire or "Reeg Bev Wil." To this day, busloads of...
May 19, 2006
Because there's no better way to call attention to your budget lodging chain than by aligning yourself with Hollywood, Travelodge polled over 3,000 people to find out once and for all the Best Hotel Movie Scene. Pretty Woman's sexy bathtub scene at Regent Beverly Wilshire was voted #1, followed by...
April 18, 2006
The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel made its mark in Hollywood by being the hotel that Richard Gere took his streetwalker love, Julia Roberts, to in "Pretty Woman." Well former pint-sized rapper Bow Wow was holed up there last week with a stripper after breaking up with R&B star Ciara.Randomly, a...
April 10, 2006
This was taken on Wednesday morning in front of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, this sight may become commonplace in the year ahead due to tension between hotels and labor unions.Let's hope this all works out peacefully.Related...
January 27, 2006
A new labor contract was struck on Saturday between seven major Los Angeles hotels and its employees,represented by the Unite Here labor union, avoiding a possible strike. On Thursday, workers at the Riot Hyatt in West Hollywood walked out because of the contract disputes, which had lasted for nearly...
June 13, 2005
As we told you earlier, the GM at L'Ermitage was a tad worried about becoming a "tourist stop" after Julie Roberts popped in to film a scene for "Full Frontal". Why was he so worried? Despite the heavy foot traffic, The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel no doubt benefitted from...
January 14, 2005
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