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West Hollywood

The Strip starts at the corner and the canyon trails are ten minutes up the hill. This is the guide the front desk gives guests, with the minutes door to door.

A West Hollywood sidewalk of awnings and palms, two friends at a café table and the hills rising at the end of the street

Eleven places, in minutes

Times are from the front door, on foot or in the house car, outside the rush hour.

Two hikers and a dog on a dusty ridge trail in Runyon Canyon, the basin hazy below
Runyon Canyon, ten minutes up the hill

On foot

  1. 1min

    The Sunset Strip

    On foot

    The music clubs, the bookshops and the billboards start at the corner.

  2. 7min

    Sunset Plaza

    On foot

    Two blocks of cafés under the palms, breakfast on the sidewalk.

  3. 12min

    Santa Monica Boulevard

    On foot

    The heart of West Hollywood, and the parade route every June.

  4. 14min

    Pacific Design Center

    On foot

    The blue and green glass buildings, and the showrooms around them.

A short drive

  1. 8min

    Melrose Place

    By car

    A quiet street of galleries and the Sunday farmers market.

  2. 10min

    Runyon Canyon

    By car

    Up the ridge before the crowds, the basin below you by eight.

  3. 15min

    The Hollywood Bowl

    By car

    Summer concerts under the hills. The Garden Room packs the picnic.

  4. 15min

    LACMA

    By car

    The county museum, and the field of old street lamps outside it.

Worth the afternoon

  1. 25min

    Griffith Observatory

    By car

    The city at your feet and the Hollywood sign across the canyon.

  2. 30min

    The Getty Center

    By car

    The gardens and the collection on a hilltop above the 405.

  3. 35min

    Santa Monica Pier

    By car

    West along Sunset to the ocean, later in the afternoon when it clears.

Three days the desk plans most

Ask the night before and the car, the tickets and the table are arranged by breakfast.

From the front deskA morning

Up the hill

  1. 6:30Coffee at the desk
  2. 7:00A car to Runyon Canyon
  3. 8:45Breakfast under the olives
  4. 10:30Steam and the lap pool

From the front deskA day

Melrose

  1. 10:00Melrose Place, on foot
  2. 12:30Lunch at Sunset Plaza
  3. 3:00The design showrooms
  4. 6:30A martini at the bar

From the front deskAn afternoon

West to the ocean

  1. 2:00A car west along Sunset
  2. 3:30The Getty, the gardens
  3. 6:00Sunset on the sand
  4. 8:30Dinner back at Holm
Melrose Place on a weekday morning: plane trees over a clean pavement, white shopfronts and two people walking
Melrose Place, in the morning

Getting about

Most of West Hollywood is a walk. For the rest, the house car waits in the motor court and the desk books anything further.

The house car
Free within three miles, 8am to 11pm
To or from LAX
$165, about 40 minutes
To or from Burbank
$120, about 30 minutes
Bicycles
Two kept at the desk, with helmets
Walking
The Strip is at the corner
Directions to the hotel
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