The Beverly Hills Hotel spa enjoys its own rejuvenation

Back again when Katharine Hepburn was undertaking flips in tennis whites into the lodge pool, this sprawling Mission model retreat of the Hollywood elite was regarded additional for the gossip-worthy shenanigans of its well-known attendees than for its wellness offerings.

With 210 rooms, which include 23 bungalows, the Beverly Hills Lodge still provides lots of chance for spilling tea. But just after a whole revamp of its spa by interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud, the star-studded hideaway now attracts a steady stream of regulars searching for therapies to boost their internal and outer splendor, not just their mentions on Page Six.

Together with relocating the reception desk from the promenade to within just the spa (for underneath-the-radar look at-ins), Champalimaud tucked a peace lounge into a corner, so that spa-goers can get better from a Diamond Life Infusion Lifting Facial out of sight from meddlesome Iphone cameras.

Pool at the Beverly Hills hotel
Stars have flocked to the famed Beverly Hills Lodge for a lot more than a century — now its spa and bungalows have gained fashionable makeovers.
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Other reducing-edge solutions — such as the 5-Moment Eye Carry, LED light therapy, and microcurrent facials — intention to strengthen collagen, lower symptoms of growing old, and expose that ready-for-your-close-up glow. They are delivered in 4 rooms and 1 partners suite, performed in personalized banana-leaf wall coverings and shades of blue inspired by the lapis lazuli stone worn in “Cleopatra” by Elizabeth Taylor (who stayed below on her honeymoon — 6 situations!).

A variety of physique and confront remedies integrate world wide modalities — such as Ayurveda and Swedish massage — as very well as sufficient quantities of cult attractiveness makes, including Natura Bissé, Valmont and Knesko Pores and skin. A nail suite preps pink-carpet walkers for individuals omnipresent mani-cams just in time for awards year.  

Spa room with bed
A sunny treatment room in the hotel’s freshly revamped spa. Massages from $150, facials from $250.

The hotel’s aromatic citrus orchard and that (in)famed pool flank the entrance to the 2,600-sq.-foot spa, which permitted Champalimaud to go away the oversized arched home windows of the nail suite open to all that golden Southern California light. It pours about the spa’s splashes of gold, floral motifs and inviting natural and organic shapes, all of which collectively echoes the dreamy, barefoot-stylish frame of mind of the hotel’s present technology of visitors.

“There’s a real feeling of romance to the resort, and I imagine the new design and style genuinely demonstrates that,” suggests Champalimaud, who also reimagined the metropolis escape’s famed bungalows.

The Citrus Garden at the Beverly Hills Hotel
The scent of citrus (and accomplishment) wafts from a back garden at the Beverly Hills Resort.
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Permit the individuals whisper about the mischievous goings-on at the Beverly Hills Lodge no just one will ever know you came and went for a cellulite-smoothing Endosphères Lymphatic Massage and de-puffing Electricity Glow Facial — except if you leak the tale on your own. 


The Bungalows at the Beverly Hills Hotel

Talking of which: You have not certainly arrived in Hollywood till you have stayed (or at minimum performed) at a person of the hotel’s 23 bungalows, some of which day back to 1915.

Now, many thanks to visionary inside designer Alexandra Champalimaud, they’ve been specified modern-day makeovers to match the 210-place hotel’s timeless design.

And its famed clientele. Marilyn Monroe’s most loved bungalow (No. 1) lures fashionable-working day screen goddesses with its curved furnishings and gilded ceilings, not to point out the Chanel features in the pink lavatory.

Poolside at the cabana
A glamorous pool cabana at the Beverly Hills Resort.
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Howard Hughes’ house for 30 years (No. 4) now features temporary people aluminum-sided club chairs and other subtle nods to aeronautics.

Bungalow No. 5, meanwhile, wraps all-around a secluded swimming pool, which was created in 1991 for publisher/philanthropist and frequent visitor Walter Annenberg. Its swimming gap makes it possible for nothing but the 278 annual times of Los Angeles sunshine and the tops of palm trees to bear witness to midday skinny-dips.

The nearby Presidential Bungalow also has its very own pool, together with an outdoor shower for real indoor-out of doors dwelling.

“This classically abundant heritage was the perfect basis on which I layered a contemporary and latest issue of perspective,” she says.

Also obtaining the Tinseltown treatment method? Eleven glamorous new pool cabanas and the hotel’s seductive, secretive new spa. With fresh new-pressed juices, an upgraded health center and wellness kits for right away company, it’s the ideal spot for Hollywood royalty — or anyone who imagines them selves the star of their personal aspect movie. 

Rooms from $595 bungalows from $2,300.