Oyster Hotel Reviews does L.A.: See thousands of photos and insider reports from L.A.’s best hotels

The still-new Oyster Hotel Reviews that launched earlier this year has opened up a new category of Los Angeles hotels on their website. It’s a feather in their cap that Oyster reviews hotels without taking comps or incentives, but it’s their bounty of gorgeous hotel photos and insider content that keeps me coming back to their site. As you can imagine, I was happy when they added Los Angeles to their Caribbean-heavy lineup.

Here’s a website where travelers can get an inside peek at some of Los Angeles’ most-talked-about hotels before they slap down their credit card. Users are able to search hotels by category, price, rating and special amenities like “swim up bar at pool ” or “pets allowed.” Oyster roundup lists provide a great way to ogle the insides of a hotel and get a full review, whether you’re shopping for a room right now, or daydreaming for next year.

The luxe Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Terranea Resort and Shutters on the Beach are on the list of Best Luxury Hotels in Los Angeles, and the Chateau Marmont, Hollywood Roosevelt and the Beverly Hilton are three L.A. hotels that made the short list of hotels from Hotels with Hollywood History in Los Angeles. (Apparently, Oyster has a loose definition of Los Angeles since some hotels have addresses in Greater L.A. like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills.)

Don’t worry, not all hotels in the L.A. section have big price tags. There are also Best Value Hotels and Kid-Friendly Hotels.

One of the first things I looked at on the Oyster Los Angeles page was the list of Best Hotel Bathrooms in Los Angeles. The picture above is of the bathroom at the two-bedroom, ocean-view luxury suite at the Hotel Shangri-La Santa Monica.

And for those of us who have not seen the insides of the celeb hangout Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, here’s a photo of the lobby (just one of 156 photos on this review at Oyster).

Many of the hotels on the Los Angeles page are worthy of a splurge. That why the hundreds and thousands of photos from Los Angeles hotels show you exactly what a traveler before you saw.

To see hotels for other destinations, including Las Vegas, New York, Bahamas, Jamaica, Miami, Aruba and more, visit Oyster’s home page.

—Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

[Photos: Top: Spa at the Terranea Resort; middle: the bathroom at the two-bedroom ocean view luxury suite at the Hotel Shangri-La Santa Monica; bottom: lobby at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel; photo credit: Oyster Hotel Reviews]

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