The Orlando Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA

This elegant, boutique-style hotel offers a fitness room, outdoor pool, whirlpool, European dry-saunas and a private treatment room for massages and skin care. The fully equipped fitness centre features Precor treadmills, Lifesteps and Maxicam equipment and is located on the second floor of the hotel.  Guests can also enjoy the privilege of being able to use the Golding Fitness programme, a private training studio close to the hotel offering private and semi-private instruction. The hotel restaurant is located just off the hotel¡¯s marble-floored lobby and is where the complimentary breakfast is served daily.

Luxurious and spacious the 98 guestrooms, with separate sitting area, all feature sophisticated d¨¦cor in warm earth tones, with dark woods and large windows dressed with floor-length drapes and Venetian blinds. All rooms feature one king-sized bed or two queen beds with thick, white comforters.  Other amenities include multiple dual-line telephones, fully stocked minibar and coffee/tea maker, CD player, cable TV with video games, opulent cotton robes, natural bath products, hair dryer and the nightly turn-down service includes chocolate truffles.

A full American breakfast is served daily in the hotel restaurant, just off the hotel lobby, where guests can enjoy a buffet of eggs prepared any style, meat, potatoes, toast and coffee. Ideally located near Restaurant Row, guests can enjoy an enviable array of cuisine from around the world, from classy Californian cuisine to tempura Maryland soft-shell crabs and grilled Alaskan salmon.

The Orlando features a luxury meeting room, ergonomically designed with seating for up to 12 people with custom stationery, whiteboards and flipcharts.With the latest high-tech equipment, the meeting room is equipped with multi-line speaker telephones with conferencing, facsimile with direct-dial capability, halogen and incandescent lighting with dimming facility, VCR and colour 27-inch satellite television.

Located in the heart of Los Angeles, The Orlando is ideally placed for visiting the many attractions on offer. Pyramidal skylights mark the Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza, which was designed by renowned Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.  The permanent collection includes works from the 1940s to present day. The cradle of the movie industry is rife with landmarks of its glamorous past.  The 50-foot tall Hollywood sign in the hills above the movie colony can be seen for miles.  At Paramount Pictures, walking tours are offered of the only major motion picture studio still located in Hollywood. Whilst Beverly Hills is the lookout place for a famous face and a glimpse of opulence ¨C especially along the ritzy Rodeo Drive shopping district.  Or head towards the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the city sidewalk immortalising the names of movie and other entertainment greats on brass plaques embedded in pink stars.  Marlon Brandon, Clark Gables and Marilyn Monroe are but just a few.