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Splurging With Wolfgang Puck at Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles's WP24

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 Olympic Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
January 7, 2011 at 9:31 AM | by | Comments (0)

Earlier this week, we told you about our recent stay at the Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live. Today, with this photo gallery of dishes, we’re going to take you along on the over-the-top dinner we enjoyed at the hotel’s signature restaurant, Wolfgang Puck’s WP24.

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Inside The Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 W. Olympic Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
January 3, 2011 at 12:17 PM | by | Comment (1)

Last month, we had the opportunity to spend the night in one of the Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live's 123 guest rooms, and check out the experience for ourselves. Here’s the photo gallery we took of our room, a quick video walk-through of it, and our thoughts.

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The Ritz-Carlton at LA Live Opens Today! (Just Avoid The Valet Parking)

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 W. Olympic Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
April 2, 2010 at 9:10 AM | by | Comments (0)

We're loving this crazy new trend of hotels opening up earlier than expected. We had heard whispers that the Ritz-Carlton at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles would not be opening until April 15 but it turns out the hotel is opening today!

Perched on the upper floors of the 54-story tower that it shares with sister hotel the JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE and The Ritz-Carlton Residences at L.A. LIVE, The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles has 123 well-appointed guestrooms, including 14 suites.

While the hotel does share its location with the JW Marriott, it has its own spa, a rooftop swimming pool and bar, a Wolfgang Puck restaurant and the all-important Ritz-Carlton club floor.

The spa will actually be downtown's only full-service spa with nine treatment rooms, aromatherapy steam rooms, cold plunge showers and relaxation lounges. And in an interesting twist on spa music, each treatment table will be equipped with an iPod dock so guests can have fully customizable music during their massage. No more Enya, hurrah!

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The Holiday Inn Near Staples Center to Become the Luxe City Center Hotel

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1020 Figueroa [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
March 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM | by | Comments (0)

It looks like LA Live in downtown Los Angeles is having a nice impact on the hotel scene nearby. We already know about the new JW Marriott and the upcoming Ritz-Carlton but now the Holiday Inn across the street is getting a makeover as well.

Come June, the 200-room hotel will be known as the Luxe City Center Hotel and will be a sister property to the Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive and the Luxe Hotel on Sunset. Design team SANDdesign has been tapped with the gig of transforming this budget hotel into something more hip and sexy. From the press release:

Furnishings include platform beds with woven wood headboards of silvered walnut and dark walnut accents and oversized lounge chair and ottomans in plush chenille in a grayed camel tones, draped with supremely soft ivory fur throws. Custom decorative lighting in the room includes mercury glass and hand-carved faux onyx. Carpeting is custom as well in a cut and loop wood grain pattern to complement the muted walls. Tiled entry floors flow into the bathrooms with glass barn door separations. Bathrooms have back-lit mirrors, rain head showers, and custom glass mosaic accent tiles in soft tones.

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Ritz-Carlton at LA Live to Open Next Month Instead of Next Week

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 W Olympic Blvd [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
March 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

You will have to wait just a little bit longer for this hotel room.

We've been mightily impressed with the new JW Marriott at LA Live, particularly with that free WiFi in the lobby, but we've also been looking ahead to the day when it's "better half" would open--The Ritz-Carlton at LA Live.

The initial opening date was to be March 15 but looking on the hotel's website today we see that reservations are now being accepted for stays from April 1 and beyond. But they might be just fooling. When we tried to plug in April 1 for a two night stay, there was no availability at the hotel.

So we checked in with the hotel's rep to see what they had to say. According to them, the hotel will open in early April with opening festivities to happen in mid-April. No word on the starting room rates yet but we expect them to be "ritzier" than the J.W. Marriott where we found rooms for $179 on April 1.

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Marriott's 'New Directions?': JW Marriott at LA Live Has Free WiFi in the Lobby

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 W. Olympic Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
March 1, 2010 at 8:59 AM | by | Comments (0)

Last week, we were following the tweets of travel writer @Chic_Travel as she was doing a Los Angeles hotel tour and we got the tingles when she tweeted:

Free wifi at JW Marriott LA Live- love that hotels are embracing this

But we were skeptical. This is Marriott we are talking about here. Internet is not usually free, unless it's at a Courtyard or if you have a super-high rewards status.

Yet we checked in with the hotel's PR team and it is free in the lobby. The guestrooms still charge you for either wired or wireless--$12.95 for 24 hours. Similarly, the business center has a pay-as-you-go policy but we've seen this brand new hotel's impressive lobby and it will definitely do in a pinch when we need to catch up on our "Glee" gossip. Thanks, Marriott!

P.S. Chocolate milkshake scratch-n-sniff stickers for anyone who gets the title pun.

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The JW Marriott Los Angeles is Gearing Up for Opening Day

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 710 West Olympic Boulevard [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
February 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM | by | Comments (0)

The big day is drawing closer for the JW Marriott Los Angeles at LA Live and we're getting anxious to take a look inside the finished product. While the hotel officially opens on Monday, February 15, rooms are sold-out that night.

However, on February 16 we found a standard guest room available for $329. There's also a big ribbon cutting ceremony happening at the hotel that day, so we say that might be the better date to check in.

But if you're watching your budget, we did see that the JW Marriott was doing a last-minute weekend special for $179 a night on February 19 with a $50 resort credit. A two-night minimum is requested but considering that this hotel is right next to all the action of LA Live and the Staples Center, that's not a bad deal at all.

We'll have the full report next week on the hotel's opening so stay tuned!

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JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Turn on The Lights at LA Live

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 W. Olympic Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
January 14, 2010 at 3:55 PM | by | Comments (0)

Last month we gave you a preview of the new J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. Last night, we headed back to the colossal glass tower to mingle amidst celebrities and philanthropists, and witness the inaugural lighting up of the building. We even took a video of the event, which was not without a few quickly resolved technical glitches, that you can check out above.

The open-bar cocktail reception took place up on the 26th-floor pool deck of the Ritz-Carlton with a live band playing old standards. The whole evening (appropriately) felt like a movie premiere, with red carpet entrances, dozens of spotlights in the sky, and swarms of helicopters (we counted seven at one point) hovering to get good shots of all the action.

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A Sneak Peek of the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 W. Olympic Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
December 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM | by | Comments (0)

The entrance to the hotels at LA Live.

Though in the past we’ve had a few quibbles with the carpet selection at the new J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live in downtown, we got to go on a top-secret hard-hat tour (yes, there was an actual hard hat involved, as well as protective glasses, a hideous orange vest, clomping work boots, and a release form!) inside the new property to see how construction is going and what progress is being made so that the hotel can open on-time in mid-February.

THE FACTS
his property is the first of its kind for Marriott and Ritz-Carlton. Though they have other hotels that are connected through spa and meeting facilities, this is the first property where both hotels are in the same structure. The J.W. Marriott rooms will be located on floors 4-21 in both towers on the property, and the Ritz-Carlton rooms will be on floors 22-26 in both towers.

The Ritz-Carlton residence suites will be on floors 27-54 in the tall main tower that looks like a glass sheath, will be LEED certified, and is the first new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles in nearly 20 years. The entire building was designed by the Gensler architectural firm, while Barry Design is in charge of the interior design.

Apart from sharing conference facilities and the 8,000 square-foot Ritz-Carlton Spa, the two hotels will be very distinct from one another.

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Is There Time for JW Marriott at L.A. Live To Reconsider Their Carpeting?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 West Olympic Boulevard [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
July 28, 2009 at 5:49 PM | by | Comments (9)

UPDATE: The JW Marriott LA Live just tweeted about the carpet installation on the 5th floor. Guess it's too late!

We've been riding a sort of high about the upcoming JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton coming to downtown Los Angeles' LA Live entertainment complex. Downtown LA has been struggling for a long time to pull visitors away from the action of Hollywood and the fun of the Venice/Santa Monica beaches and LA Live looks like their best shot.

Next to the Staples Center (home to the Lakers and big ticket concerts), LA Live has a Nokia Theater, a small intimate venue called Club Nokia, an ESPN Zone, the Grammy Hall of Fame and several restaurants and bars.

So bringing in the JW Marriott and a Ritz next to LA Live (in a cool building with a large video wall) will give guests close-by fancy hotel options. However, we're really hoping the JW Marriott can reconsider its carpeting option before it opens on February 15, 2010.

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The Ritz-Carlton and J.W. Marriott in Downtown LA Are Looking Good

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 West Olympic Boulevard [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90015
June 17, 2009 at 12:32 PM | by | Comments (0)

We were cruising along the 110 yesterday in downtown Los Angeles and noticed that the Ritz-Carlton/J.W. Marriott hotel at LA Live is looking pretty fly. The hotel hybrid will open in March 2010 but the exterior of the 54-story skyscraper is nearly complete. And remember, this exterior is where the giant video-screen will be. (You can see it better in the picture below.)

The building will be one-part JW Marriott, one part Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles and one part The Ritz-Carlton Residences at LA Live. We're actually very excited about these new upscale hotels coming to downtown Los Angeles. It's about time downtown got some more respectable hotel options for travelers. And maybe, just maybe, Bill Marriott will visit us...er...LA more often.

The hotel is already on Twitter too. A recent Tweet? Watching downtown LA prep for the Lakers NBA Champions parade. The hotel is already rooting for the home team. Check out that "Go Lakers" sign on the building.

Another drive-by shot after the jump.

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Marriott's L.A. Live Hotel Will Feature Massive Video Screen

January 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM | by | Comment (1)

In Los Angeles, it's doesn't matter what's on the inside as long as the outside looks really, really good.

Engadget reports that when the Marriott hotel complex in downtown LA's new development, LA Live, opens in 2010 it won't just be about the Ritz-Carlton and the JW Marriott inside. As with everything here in LA, what's on the outside matters a great deal. And this hotel will be going all out.

The property owners AEG and sponsor Panasonic have struck a deal to put up a 50-foot by 160-foot screen, totaling 8,000 sq ft screen, on its eastern face on the hotel's exterior that reportedly won't interfere with guests' room views. The screen is already going up on the building, which you can see here, but the rendering above shows you the intended result.

Lately, other hotels have been doing this sort of thing with their exterior like Harrah's Water Tower in Atlantic City which has a 44-story video wall that's really just an optical illusion. We only hope the rooms at LA Live will come with some good black-out shades.

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