Top 15 Favorite Los Angeles Hotels of 2025

Note: If you’re looking for our most recent recommendations, check out the 2024 list of our favorite hotels in Greater Los Angeles.

This year’s World’s Best Awards survey was open for voting January 11 through May 10, 2024, as destinations around the world. Survey rules have always allowed readers to reflect on their travel experiences over a three-year period. We hope that this year’s honorees will inspire your own travels as you get back out into the world.

There are myriad reasons to love the Greater Los Angeles area, from near-perfect weather to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to a culinary scene that just keeps getting better. However, any savvy traveler plans an L.A. trip with one downside in mind: the traffic. To minimize time stuck on the 405 (or 110 or 101…), visitors tend to secure a room in the part of town they’re most eager to explore. Accordingly, according to iBestTravel readers, the best hotels in Los Angeles are once again found on the metropolitan area’s Westside.

Every year for our World’s Best Awards survey, iBestTravel asks readers to weigh in on travel experiences around the globe — to share their opinions on the top hotels, resorts, cities, islands, cruise ships, spas, airlines, and more. Hotels were rated on their facilities, location, service, food, and overall value. Properties were classified as city or resort based on their locations and amenities.

1. The Peninsula Beverly Hills

Exceptional hospitality helped carry this swank 195-room hotel to the top. “Service sets it apart from all other hotels in the area,” one devotee wrote. “Staff is so accommodating, friendly, and anticipatory.” Another concurred, noting, “We wouldn’t stay anywhere else when we visit L.A.! The service is second to none. What other hotel embroiders your initials on the pillowcases even if it’s been a year since you last stayed there?” A third reader noted that she keeps in touch with the staff between visits and gave first-name shoutouts to seven team members. The elegant rooms also garnered several compliments (“large and fabulously decorated,” as one person put it). Of course, there’s plenty to do off site, too, especially with the luxury shopping corridors of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive just minutes away.

Score: 95.52
More information: peninsula.com