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 Los
Angeles and its citizens hold proud the notion that they are at the
center of everything, and since the city’s founding, the claims have
been fairly difficult to refute. Today, Los Angeles is a microcosm of
the riches that settlers chased into California, a place where ambition
runs amok, unchecked, and the potential for success, fame, and glamour
can be as sudden and fleeting as a flash of gold in a river pan. Those
who’ve achieved this mythical status, thus, have taken up residence in
the metaphorically apt central residential area of Los Angeles, Beverly
Hills. Film stars, industry icons, and the entourage that
follows—dieticians, yoga instructors, and corporate
executives—occupy a neighbourhood characterized by wealth and
serenity, blending professional triumph with a passive, Zen-like
aesthetic. Raffles International, a hotel management company with 37
leading properties worldwide, has always held the dynamic and character
of the location as integral to the scope of new projects. At the Raffles
L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, located on Burton Way just south of Santa
Monica Boulevard, the gentle design marriage of luxury interior décor
and state-of-the-art technology make this hotel the best stay for both
the business and the leisure traveller. Those in the corporate, music
and entertainment industries demand the technology, just as leisure
travellers demand the style, comfort, and elegance.
The
luxury of technology featured in each of the hotel’s 124 guest rooms
set a peerless standard in the industry. 40-inch televisions, Bose
speakers, CD/DVD players with complimentary library of titles, Web TV, a
copier-printer-scanner-fax machine, wireless and DSL high-speed Internet
and four multi-line telephones, including a direct-dial private number
puts even the most well-equipped offices to shame. The reach of
technology, and the foresight of the system, actually trumps the pure
hardware as well. The ‘Inncom’ system promptly learns and adapts to
a guest’s climate and lighting preferences, which can be controlled
either from the wall, or along with the stereo, television, and DVD,
from the comfort of one’s own bed. As Raffles understands, being on
the cutting edge requires one to overstep their bounds sometimes, and
nowhere is this truer than at L’Ermitage. Looking to the day when
fiber optics become the market standard for information access and
transfer, the hotel is completed wired to adapt to this inevitable
technological stride.
The
high-tech amenities with high-class Euro-Asian furnishings as well,
including quarter-paneled English Sycamore wood with silk shams on
king-size platform beds. A fully-stocked private bar in the room offers
guests complimentary non-alcoholic beverages, and in-room safes and
safe-deposit boxes offer all guests peace of mind. Thick terry cloth
towels and robes hang on the backs of bathroom doors. French doors open
up onto private balconies with views of either the city or the foothills
to the north and the east. The elegance of the privacy you’re afforded
at L’Ermitage extends from your room to the on-site, guests only
private fitness center and rooftop pool (where the rich fragrance of
rosemary and olive trees waft across the deck), ensuring that today and
into the future, guests of the hotel are guaranteed the most up-to-date
amenities and security for their fast-paced lives. Small but meaningful
perks like flexible check-in and check-out times, and the accommodation
of small pets, offer the subtle personal touches indicative of
world-class hospitality.
It
is the personable luxuries at L’Ermitage that have helped garner its
Mobil Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond Award Ratings again in 2004—the
industry’s most elusive and coveted pair of awards. This classy and
sleek establishment wins over guests (and the editorial boards at
discerning magazines like Conde Nast and Travel + Leisure)
like Giorgio Armani, who stays here whenever on the West Coast, with
their core innovative policies and a penchant for exceeding
expectations. JAAN, the hotel’s signature restaurant, fuses the
creative culinary harmonies of California to form exciting gourmet
flavours for the palate. If the refined dining room ambiance feels too
formal, any dish from any of the restaurant’s seasonal menus can be
enjoyed anywhere in the hotel—in a poolside cabana, at the Writer’s
Bar, or in the privacy of your own room. The recent $60-million
refurbishment to the property owes much of its hefty price tag to the RafflesAmrita
Spa on the hotel's eighth floor, where cutting-edge
facilities, private steam rooms, and a personalized line of aromatherapy
products are featured. Indeed, from the moment you set foot in the lobby and set eyes
on the authentic silk textiles hanging here, recovered from the 12th
century Chinese Jin Dynasty, to the data ports in each room,
rarely does a single hotel so brilliantly blend the old and the new with
such seamless style and grace. On the doorstep of one of the most famous
and eclectic cities in the world, there is no better way to experience
the vibrant culture of Los Angeles, and to live as the stars do when
they visit.
Where
to Stay
Raffles L'Ermitage Beverly Hills -
http://www.lermitagehotel.com
- 9291 Burton Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Telephone +1 (310) 278-3344 or (800) 800-2113
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