1 Hotel West Hollywood

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Why is 1 Hotel West Hollywood one of the best hotels on the Strip?

1 Hotel West Hollywood earns its place because it takes a single conviction, that luxury and environmental responsibility do not have to be in tension, and follows it further than almost any city hotel in Los Angeles. The property opened in 2019 as the West Coast flagship of the 1 Hotels brand, spread across two towers at the junction of Sunset Boulevard and La Cienega, the point where the Strip reaches its highest ground before it drops toward Beverly Hills. Reclaimed wood, living plant walls, earthen plaster, clay tones and organic cotton linens are the design language throughout, and the result reads as calm and naturalistic rather than preachy, which is harder to pull off than it sounds. For a design-led or wellness-led stay in the city, this is the address that has the clearest point of view.

The building is only half the argument. The other half is that the eco-credentials never come at the expense of comfort. The marble bathrooms are as generous as anything in the four-star market, the beds are excellent, and the rooftop pool commands a sweep of the Los Angeles basin that stops most guests in their tracks on the first evening. Service carries the warmth of a team that appears to believe in the brand's values, a quality that is difficult to train into a hotel and easy to feel when it is present. Set your expectations for a contemporary, sustainability-minded design hotel with a lively rooftop rather than a hushed grande dame, and it delivers on its own terms.

What are the best rooms to request?

Request a high-floor room or suite facing south over the basin, and prioritise the view and the floor over square footage. The 283 rooms and suites run across five room categories, six suite types and two penthouses, and they all share the same natural material palette of reclaimed wood, stone and organic linens, so the meaningful differences between categories are height, aspect and terrace rather than a change of style. The entry rooms are handsome and well sized for the four-star market, but they can sit lower in the towers with a shorter or more partial outlook. The upper suites, and above all the two penthouses, open the full panorama of the Hollywood Hills, the city grid and, on a clear day, a line of the Pacific, which is among the more spectacular views in the city's hotel inventory.

One honest caveat that the marketing photographs tend to blur: not every room delivers the postcard skyline, and the lower entry categories can look onto the neighbouring building or the Strip rather than the open basin. This is a modern tower hotel, so the character is contemporary and clean rather than storied, which most guests booking here actively want. Treat the room as a quiet natural frame for the view and book the highest floor and category your budget allows for the widest outlook and the best light in the late afternoon.

What is the dining and the bar scene like?

Dining is a genuine reason to book rather than an afterthought. The headline room is Harriet's Rooftop, an open-air cocktail lounge nine floors above the Strip with a lively bar, an Asian-inflected small-plates menu and a 180-degree view across West Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills. It is one of the more sought-after rooftop tables in the city, and the social energy of the hotel concentrates here, particularly at sunset and at weekend brunch. On the ground floor, the 1 Kitchen restaurant handles the serious eating with a farm-to-table menu built on genuine local and organic sourcing rather than menu copywriting, and the cocktail programme is among the more thoughtful on the Strip. A lobby lounge and poolside food and drink service round out the offer, so a full day can be spent without leaving the property.

What about the pool, spa and wellness?

The rooftop pool and sun deck are the daytime heart of the hotel: private cabanas, dedicated food and drink service and the specific quality of elevation that makes the Strip's usual noise irrelevant. The hotel also runs a full spa with a natural and organic treatment menu and an extensive, genuinely well-equipped fitness centre, so the wellness offer is operational rather than decorative. The one thing to price in is the daily amenity fee, which covers WiFi, fitness access and various in-room provisions and should be added to the nightly rate when you compare. For a city wellness base, the combination of pool, spa, plant-forward food and the closeness of Runyon Canyon and Griffith Park is the most coherent on the Sunset Strip.

Signature amenities

At the top of the Sunset Strip

The rooftop, the rooms, the living walls

Exterior

City-view room

Rooftop pool

Lobby

How does 1 Hotel West Hollywood compare with the city's other design and retreat stays?

Against the field, 1 Hotel West Hollywood is the design-and-wellness benchmark on the Strip, and the choice comes down to what you want your days to look like. Hotel Bel-Air is the opposite argument, a hushed garden hideaway in Bel-Air built around privacy and a spa rather than a rooftop scene. Terranea Resort trades the city entirely for oceanfront acreage on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and the most complete wellness campus in the greater LA area. Chateau Marmont is the storied, low-key alternative a few minutes east along Sunset, where the appeal is history and discretion rather than sustainability and a view.

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