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Montage Beverly Hills Now Open, If You Can Afford It

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 225 North Canon Drive [map], Beverly Hills, CA, United States, 90210
November 18, 2008 at 11:45 AM | by | Comments (2)

From the folks who brought you Montage Laguna Beach, the Montage Beverly Hills — a super-luxe 201-room property right in Beverly Hills' Golden Triangle (the area that falls between Santa Monica Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard and Canon Drive) — officially opened yesterday.

Boasting an extensive list of super upscale details like outdoor topiary gardens, hand-painted ceilings in the ballroom and Library and a curator-assembled art collection, the hotel is for the affluent traveler who, somehow, has tons of dough to blow right now.

And if you don't have tons of money to spend and you're stressed cause you just spent it anyway, go get a massage or something at the two-level, 20,000-square-foot spa. We're talking 17 treatment rooms, a fitness center, yoga and Pilates studios and a full-service hair and beauty salon.

And here's what you're looking at for dining:

Parq, the 88-seat restaurant, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner in a casually elegant environment with views of the hotel's topiary gardens. Signature dishes include Marinated "Japanese Kobe" Cobb, Cannelloni of Braised Short Ribs and Cedar Plank Medallions of Spiny Lobster.

There is also a 44-seat restaurant called Muse that serves dinner, plus a lobby lounge for afternoon tea.

And while the official opening date was yesterday (November 17th), the hotel is accepting reservations starting tomorrow night (November 19th). The online reservation system isn't up and running yet, so we gave the hotel a call and found out we could score a "deluxe" room — which normally goes for $595 — for the still-steep price of $425 as a promotional opening rate.

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Apartments....

Is it me or are more and more hotels starting to look like 1980s-1990s suburban apartment complexes?  I could snap pictures of about 300 apartment complexes in Phoenix that look exactly like this.  If you're going to have architecture like this, it needs to be shorter and in sprawling grounds that entice exploration, like the Royal Palms in Phoenix.  If you're going to have this height, take your time and go after the style of the Mission Inn in Riverside.

From the rendering I'd also like to see the room choices:  would you like street view with traffic noise, office building view, office building view, or office building view - or inside courtyard with no sun and the noise of chairs scraping the brick/concrete all day and night and maybe the music from a wedding.

And if it hasn't been said before, kudos to California voters for voting YES on the high speed train initiative between SF, Sacramento, LA, and San Diego... that's the smartest thing ever done in an economy like this and should really encourage travel and tourism.  I have a feeling that this type of project is about to become the new WPA project, and will tremendously help urban infill and downtown hotels throughout the US.

Ben

bbphx on November 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM #Permalink

Montage vs. Medici

I absolutely agree on the (lack of) design of this hotel. The Montage BH reminds me of nothing so much as the uber-tacky Medici Apartments in Downtown LA. (http://www.themedici.com/). Give me the modern, progressive, funky Thompson across the street any day. I'm sure the service is great, but what a sad departure from the gorgeous, unassuming Craftsman-style Montage in Laguna Beach.
andrew keown on November 18, 2008 at 1:34 PM #Permalink

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