You may have been on many of today’s cruise ships, but you won’t find a ship quite like the Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach Harbor in the wonderful city of Los Angeles, California.
Unlike its predecessor, the famous ship Titanic, the Queen Mary is bigger and was faster and more powerful. Plus, it made over a thousand successful voyages across the Atlantic Ocean during its 30 years at sea. It also serviced the military during World War II.
Nowadays, this enchanting reminder of the past is anchored in Los Angeles and …
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Once again, we find ourselves confused by a World’s Best list from Travel + Leisure. The magazine has just released its 2011 T+L 500 guide which always makes us giddy as we love seeing which hotels are hot and which are not. But when we noticed that the best hotel in Los Angeles is the Hotel Bel-Air, it felt like someone popped the pretty balloon we had been holding. And then knocked over our ice cream too.
That’s because the Hotel Bel-Air has been closed for over a year for …
YES, it actually gets cold enough in Los Angeles to call for The Standard-Hollywood and The Standard-Downtown LA to throw some woolen Pendleton blanket on their guestroom beds and YES of course they are selling them to anyone who wants to take home the artist-created designs themselves. The two blankets were officially released into the Standard Shop just before Thanksgiving, and indeed they could be ideal gifts for the person in your life that obsesses over staying at one of Andre Balazs’ hotels.
Source: HotelChatter – Go to Source
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Hmm…we can’t really classify this under Holiday Hotel Decorations. Perhaps we need to start a new series, Holiday Hotel Cards?
The Sunset Tower in West Hollywood is known to bow down to every request put forth by their celebrity clientele. (Want an oven in your suite? No problem! Just ditch that drunk make-up artist.)
But for the holiday season, hotelier Jeff Klein decided to reach out to a few regular celeb guests for some help. The NY Times’ Media Decoder blog reports that Klein enlisted the help of “Lonely Island” …
So, you thought Charlie Sheen was hogging the spotlight when it came to bad celebrity hotel behavior? Nope! It seems he’s happy to share that stage with estranged wife Brooke Mueller–who spent Thanksgiving eve at the Farmer’s Daughter Hotel in L.A., but the next day in rehab.
While most families were watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last Thursday morning, Mueller’s family and a representative from a sober-living house were escorting Mueller from the hotel wearing her baggy pajamas and looking a little worse for wear.
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