I love, love, love The Beverly Hilton. The only pl...

I love, love, love The Beverly Hilton. The only place we stay when we go to LA. Convenient to everything (by LA standards). Pay a little extra and get a room with a balcony. Starbucks franchise in the lobby off to the left as you enter; it's also a bar and they probably serve alcohol at 7 AM but I don't know about that.

It's built on a little slope so there are a couple of subterranean levels, which have a big pool area and cabanas and the last remaining Trader Vic's in the country. The food is disgusting but it's fun. Also, and it's kind of difficult to get to, there's a top-floor restaurant somewhere in the complex where we always get complementary brunch passes to and it was the original home of L'Escoffier. I always feel Don Draper-ish walking in there, even though the patrons are 21st-century overweight tourists from America and abroad.

Can't recommend it enough.