Review: SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills

Is the Platinum breakfast a full breakfast? Or an upcharge?

How much is parking?

And is BH walkable from there? It's a bit off from the center.

@ Carl -- While I wasn't parking a car, it seems as if valet with in/out privileges is $38 per day.

It is a bit off from the center of Beverly Hills. With LA weather I'd argue it's easily walkable, though definitely not convenient for Rodeo Drive, etc.

I didn't partake in breakfast unfortunately, but if I'm not mistaken it was a "legitimate" continental breakfast (so not a pastry basket as some hotels do).

For what it's worth, "Style, Luxury, Service" is a backronym (as I think it's called?) -- i.e., they (SBE Entertainment Group) came up with "SLS" first and figured out what it stood for after. SBE is among the douchier LA nightclub peddlers, though the SLS is actually relatively classy. But Sam Nazarian, the founder of SBE, wanted a hotel name that immediately conveyed luxury, expense and for lack of a better term "baller"-ness, and he likes his expensive Mercedes coupe, so SLS it was. (Mercedes SLS's start at $200,000, by the way.) http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/class/class-SLS

It's also not technically in Beverly Hills (then again, neither is the Four Seasons Los Angeles "at" Beverly Hills). It's across from the Beverly Center, though, if you like that sort of thing.

There will be an SLS hotel opening in Seattle as well!

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020351962_fifthcolumbiahotelxml.html

The restaurant is awesome, especially the Ssam room which serves only the tasting menu.

Jose Andreas is an amazing chef and the food is sort of alternating between molecular and traditional. A must try if you are a foodie.

I've been there, also in a +/- standard/superior room. Service and staff were great, but the decor and furnishings just did not work for me. I think the room would work better with about half the fluff; just too much clutter. Otherwise OK, if a bit overpriced.

This is the only SLS that's actually part of SPG though, right?

@ UA-NYC -- Correct, the South Beach one isn't, though I'm not sure if the Las Vegas and New York ones will be.

but does it have a lap pool?

@ justSaying -- Not a lap pool, unfortunately, but more of a reflective pond around which people with six packs soak to show off. At least that's the perception I got.

I think this used to be Le Meridien. I've stayed there many times and always liked the hotel and the location.

So do you get the points because you never did the breakfast?

@ Scott -- Yep, at check-out they gladly credited me the 500 Starpoints since I didn't do breakfast.