Book Last-Minute Hotel Deals in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a choose-your-own-adventure kind of town. If you decide to stray away from the pack, turn the page and take a tear through Tinseltown. Prefer to keep it chill? Alter the path of your story and soak up the city’s laidback options.

Your choices are endless. Get steamy with LA’s seductive side at rooftop pool parties. Keep it weird in roller skates on beachside boardwalks. Or slide behind the curtain at secret speakeasies. In LA, the world’s your oyster.

Let the chips fall where they may in LA

Any direction you look, LA gives good face. It’s a place to explore where you please—from gritty undersides to glitzy rooftops. The only rule: Don’t be boring.

• Strip Down: At boutique bungalows or hotels near downtown Los Angeles, LA knows how to throw a pool party. Keep the ACE Hotel up your sleeve for live poolside DJs. The Rooftop at The Standard is anything but. Old Hollywood meets hip Hollywood where the water’s fine, and so are the people. Non-guests are welcome to make a splash after 8 p.m.

• Neighborhood Hop: Grab one of the hotels in Chinatown. Los Angeles serves up more than dim sum in this ’hood—from art galleries to the hottest new restaurants. Leave the obvious stuff to the tourists and sate your morbid curiosity at the Museum of Death or Hollywood Forever Cemetery (which hosts movie screenings and live music among the headstones). Indulge your inner indoor kid at The Last Bookstore downtown, and go cafe hopping at Sunset Junction in Silver Lake.

• Beeline to the Best Coast: Head west for time on the sand that’s more than just soaking up the sun. Stoke some flames at Dockweiler Beach, where the bonfire’s legal, but we can’t vouch for your other plans. Or lace up a pair of old school roller skates and shimmy down the Venice Beach Boardwalk all morning before the crowds come. Catch a Hotwire Hot Rate on one of the swanky hotels in Santa Monica. Los Angeles promises more than a cliché sunset here.

• Score Big: There’s no better city to find cool crap for crazy cheap than LA. Dig for vintage gems on Melrose at casual-chic Scout and Wasteland’s three locations. Or show off your haggling skills at Melrose Trading Post and Rose Bowl Flea Market.

• Get Fancy for Less: Feel like you’re swinging from the top rung of the social ladder, and hit the patio of Chateau Marmont. You don’t have to be a guest to grab a drink, and a glass of bubbles just tastes better here. VIP lines are for people with no imagination. Skip the velvet rope and bring the real party to hidden hotspots like No Vacancy or La Descarga (finding the entrance is its own adventure).

It’s time to write your own LA story. Stay in the best hotels in downtown Los Angeles, or join the cool kids at the cheap hotels in Los Angeles near Universal Studios. Hot Rate your way into any neighborhood to get the last-minute hotel deals Los Angeles has been waiting for you to snag. Your journey—if you choose to accept it—starts now.