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Sun and Spa at SLS's Altitude Pool

Where: 465 S. La Cienega Blvd. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90048

A rooftop pool at a hotel isn’t exactly unusual in sunny Los Angeles, so it takes more than your average cement pond with a view of the shimmering downtown skyline to get us excited. With a nightclub name like Altitude, though, the amenities at the SLS Beverly Hills’ pool did have us reaching for the sunscreen (non-pore-clogging, of course) and rummaging through our closet for that cute bathing suit we bought to show off our summer gym bod.

Unlike most other hotel pools we’ve patronized over the years — where you have to strain your neck to avoid seeing guys in fedoras and speedos (at the same time!), plug your ears to drown out the bad techno music, and resist ordering those neon cocktails getting everyone into the “party mood” — the sixth-floor Altitude seems to be a tranquil oasis on one of L.A.’s busiest streets, La Cienega.

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