Kimpton La Peer hotel review: a gateway to the best of LA

Kimpton La Peer Hotel, Beverly Hills, Ca. Photographed by laure Joliet 2018
(Image credit: laure joliet)

Los Angeles is vast and sprawling, a concrete city interwoven with ten-lane highways and snaking traffic jams. No community, no soul, right? Or wrong?

In fact, the city of LA is as complicated and multiplicious as its original name: “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula” (“the town of our Lady the Queen of Angels of the River Porciúncula”).

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Arion McNicoll is a freelance writer at The Week Digital and was previously the UK website’s editor. He has also held senior editorial roles at CNN, The Times and The Sunday Times. Along with his writing work, he co-hosts “Today in History with The Retrospectors”, Rethink Audio’s flagship daily podcast, and is a regular panellist (and occasional stand-in host) on “The Week Unwrapped”. He is also a judge for The Publisher Podcast Awards.