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The Last Vestiges of the Hotel Bel-Air Furniture Sale Are Not Pretty

January 5, 2010 at 10:08 AM | by | Comment (1)

We were tooling around Santa Monica yesterday making good on our New Year's Eve resolution to not wait until the last-minute to mail important tax letters back to the California State Franchise Tax Board when we walked by the abandoned Circuit City store on 4th Street. Except it wasn't quite abandoned. There was something going on in there, a sale of some sorts.

Then we realized it was the furniture liquidation sale for the The Hotel Bel-Air.

Even though the sale kicked off a month ago, the place will not close down until everything is sold. However, all the good stuff has already been sold with the exception of a few flat-screen TVs, some mini-bar refrigerators and tons of beaten up nightstands.

On whole, whatever is left here is very disappointing. If anything, it shows just how badly the hotel was in need of a makeover. Most of the furniture that's left is very worn down. We can't imagine what it was like checking into this exclusive hotel and seeing dinged up furniture. We actually think that whatever is left now is stuff that the Bel-Air had in storage for a while. It's all so very old.

And the prices are a bit steep. $225 for a banged up country wood armoire with a sloppy hole cut in the back to make way for a TV? Also, who is going to buy a box of old toiletries, shoddy dishware or um, female sanitary napkins? Why not just give that stuff to the homeless shelters instead.

As far as buying anything with the Hotel Bel-Air logo, we found only two items--an old phone and a desk guard which was mighty tempting. Also, housekeeping uniforms are only a dollar and we just may have found our Halloween costume for next year. (We're not going as a slutty maid, we're gonna keep it as realistic as possible.)

Anyways, should you want to see it for your self, the liquidation is happening every day from 10am to 7pm until everything is sold.

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Not Worth the Trouble

Had some friends who went along to the sale wanting a few bits to kit out their campervan (well its more like a luxury home on wheels!) but didnt really find anything worthwhile.

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