A New Yorker's Guide To Partying In L.A.

You'll notice some of the best places to eat and party center around a one block radius on Selma and Cahuenga. Tao, Beauty & Essex, and Avenue are conveniently located steps from Dream Hollywood. 

This is not the Meatpacking of LA, but rather a private enclave of ritzy five star eateries and clubs that characterize the high brow sentiments of LA. You will need to pack your Sunday best for this trip, because you'll be competing with the best of the best. Dream Hollywood is the place to see and be seen. You just never know who you'll run into in the elevators.

Guests at the Dream will feel like celebrities with the all glass steam showers and floor to ceiling windows that have the best views of LA. Some rooms are pet-friendly, so get used to seeing rich dogs. Their complimentary car service and Gunnar Peterson designed gym are great perks, and their rooftop pool, The Highlight Room, is typical Hollywood. We need to mention that there's a blow dry bar in the Alleyway called Glam + Go. Everything you need is steps from the lobby, making it impossible to want to leave the strip. 

Let's paint the picture for you: You lounge at the pool upstairs before retreating back to your room, shower and run downstairs to Glam + Go, get your hair and makeup done. Then you go back to your room to change, come downstairs and walk a few steps to the right to TAO. You meet your friends to pre-game and eat, take amazing photos, then go back to your room to change into outfit number two. Your friends come with you, because it's right there. 

Enter pre-game number two which results in the depletion of your min-bar. You hurry downstairs and take a left into the alleyway and end up at Avenue, where the DJ is spinning Hip Hop and Pop. You get a table, party the night away, then crawl back upstairs to your room.  No Ubers, no waiting in line with your miniskirt and heels, and no creepy guys hitting on you because security here will make you think the president is visiting.

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