VALLEY INSPIRED NAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, USA Dawn is breaking over Yountville, Napa. A light, crisp breeze kisses my forehead and wakes me from my sleepwalk. It’s a perfectly clear Napa...
STUART SANDFORD WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA Stuart Sandford is an artist whose photographic, video, sculpture, and installation work has been exhibited across the world. In 2010, he cu...
DESERT MODERNPALM SPRINGS, USA Palm Springs is the soothing, sun-drenched Yin to Vegas’ hedonistic Yang. I learnt that while it has only relatively recently become a g...
WHERE’S DOROTHY?WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA Yes, I’m a friend of Dorothy. I learnt the true meaning of this phrase on my recent visit to West Hollywood. Nothing to do with the Wizard o...
SOLAGE, AN AUBERGE RESORT, CALISTOGA, USA Silicon-valley millionaires mix with social-media fashionistas at this country-club style property. A team of cute staff in crisp polo shirt...
BELMOND EL ENCANTO, SANTA BARBARA, USA Belmond is synonymous with taking something from the majestic, golden-age of hospitality and injecting luxurious, modern vigour into it; and...
THE SCARLET HUNTINGTON, SAN FRANCISCO, USA On our ascent to the chic and lofty heights of Nob Hill, we were faced with a whimsical Straits-Chinese, boudoir fantasy – a happy confusion...
POST RANCH INN, BIG SUR, USA This is one of those properties with a reputation that precedes it. Everywhere we went in California, the mere mention that we were visiting...
AUBERGE DU SOLEIL, RUTHERFORD, USA We knew before we arrived at the Auberge that we were staying at one of Napa’s finest, when the people we told gasped out loud. We soon lear...
RITZ CARLTON HALF MOON BAY, USA If you are a golf fan, you’ll absolutely love this property. But even if you’re not, its setting is dramatic – not to mention romantic, perc...
FOUR SEASONS LA AT BEVERLEY, LOS ANGELES, USA We’re not great at celebrity spotting, but at the iconic Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverley Hills, we couldn’t help but see them – we quic...
MEADOWOOD, ST. HELENA, USA As if Meadowood is not a spectacular enough a property, the Meadowood Spa would be reason alone to check into the hotel. Set in an exclusive...
THE PALACE, SAN FRANCISCO, USA If like us, San Francisco was your entry point into Burning Man, a great place to top or tail the experience is the newly renovated Palace H...
VICEROY PALM SPRINGS, USA I had a perfect moment at the Viceroy. It was my birthday and I was lying there, basking on a sun lounger beside the swimming pool...
THE LONDON, WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA It was impossible not to hear a quintessentially La-la-land conversation when soaking up the California sun on the rooftop pool deck of The ...
HYATT CENTURY PLAZA, LOS ANGELES, USA The Hyatt Century Plaza has it all: Spacious, modern rooms with a balcony to catch the sunrise over breakfast, a sprawling pool and jacuzzi ...
THE STANDARD, WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA On our balcony overlooking the hotel pool, we wake to an up-close-and-personal view, and some of the best people-watching money can buy. Som...
THE CHAMBERLAIN, WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA From the moment the cab turned down into the lush tree-lined Westmount Drive, a calm oasis from the L.A. traffic, our respective blood press...
PALIHOUSE, WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA When you walk through the doors of the Palihouse Holloway, something doesn’t quite connect. Billed primarily as an extended stay hotel, we w...
MONDRIAN, WEST HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, USA Years in from its last refurb, this place is still fabulous. Despite becoming somewhat of an LA landmark, it retains so much of the minimali...
INTERCONTINENTAL MOSCONE CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, USA This is an unconventional choice for us, but there’s something really charming about the suites in this hotel. Some look back into SF, but o...
