West Hollywood
The Sunset Strip – a mile and a half of clubs, billboards and hotels along the hillside – with one address here: a 1929 castle above the boulevard, on the Los Angeles side of the line.
The neighborhoods
Beverly Hills
Hedges, gardens and the Golden Triangle – bungalows on Sunset at the top, newer addresses down on Wilshire, Rodeo Drive a walk from any of them.
Bel-Air
A canyon of gated estates above Sunset – one hotel on twelve acres of garden, a lake with swans, and the Getty a short drive west.
Santa Monica
Ocean Avenue along the bluff, the pier below it and the sand beyond – four hotels between Wilshire and Pico, two of them on the beach itself.