Los Angeles, United States

Gold-Diggers

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Style

The vinyl frontier

Setting

Edgy East Hollywood

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Combining grit, glamor and heaps of rock’n’roll cachet, Gold-Diggers is a pied piper luring LA’s music buffs out into raw-hemmed East Hollywood. Rooms — some with Hills views — are stocked with vintage records and sit a short walk from state-of-the-art recording studios (which you’re welcome to book). But the real siren song is the bar, where you'll catch up-and-coming artists or a surprise set by a global star, then dance late into the night to all-vinyl DJ sets — talk about extended play...

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

10, including five suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability. Early check-in must be requested in advance, and late check-out may be subject to an extra fee.

More details

Rates include entrance tickets to all live shows during your stay and two drinks tokens for the bar.

Also

The ADA King Studio room has been adapted for guests with limited mobility, with a roll-in shower and grab bars.

At the hotel

Recording studios, night club and music venue, lounge and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV with Apple TV and Alexa, Sonos Soundbar, record or cassette player with a vintage vinyl or tape collection, white noise machine, climate control, air purifier, steamer, curated book selection, tea- and coffee-making kit, minifridge, free glass-bottled water, Oddbird bathrobes, ear plugs and Malin and Goetz bath products

Our favourite rooms

The hotel is raucous by design, but for an early night, opt for Room 7 (Queen Suite) and Room 8 (King Studio). Both are set at the back of the hotel, away from the bar.

Spa

There’s no spa, but a partnership with a local gym is in the works.

Packing tips

Bring your backing vocalists.

Also

Instead of a mint on your pillow, you’ll find a 12” vinyl mix (compiled by Justin Gage, of LA music blog Aquarium Drunkard) to take home.

Children

This party-hard hotel is for over-21s only.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

If you’re not propped up at the bar, snag a prime standing spot right by the stage.

Dress Code

Lace, Levi’s and a worn-in leather jacket.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant at Gold-Diggers, but thankfully East Hollywood’s well-loved haunts are on your DJ-backed doorstep.

Hotel bar

Gold-Diggers Bar is a dive bar for diehard music fans. The intimate space hosts a genre-blending lineup of up-and-coming artists, late-night DJ sets, and the occasional household name. There’s no need to book — your name is automatically added to the guest list for every ticketed performance during your stay. Grab a beer or a G&T and get ready to fill your notes app with a list of new favorite artists.

Last orders

Gold-Diggers Bar pours from 7pm to 2am.

Room service

Canned cocktails and bottles of wine can be delivered to your room between noon at 6pm (or you can order and pick them up in the bar between 6pm and 2am).

Location

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Address
Gold-Diggers
5630 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles
90038
United States

Gold-Diggers is on Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood, a less-trodden neighborhood between Melrose Hill, Silver Lake and Los Feliz.

Planes

The hotel is a 45-minute drive from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and 30 minutes from Hollywood Burbank (depending on how you catch the LA traffic).

Automobiles

The hotel has a parking lot one block away, just ask staff for the access code before you arrive.

Worth getting out of bed for

East Hollywood is a world removed from the downtown tourist beat. Bring a picnic up to Barnsdall Art Park, a hillside spot with stellar views of the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory. Architecture aficionados also flock up here to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. The area is home to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, too, which often hosts film screenings and concerts; otherwise, you’re welcome to wander and pay homage to some industry greats. Catch a classic flick at Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema, or head over to Silver Lake and stop by beloved-comedy venue the Lyric Hyperion. And Hollywood’s blockbuster attractions, including the Walk of Fame and studio tours, are a short drive away.

Local restaurants

The hotel will equip you with a handy guide to East Hollywood’s vibrant cuisine scene, which is fuelled by the mix of cultures and communities that call this neighborhood home. Nearby Melrose Hill has clutch of revered restaurants, including Kuya Lord, where chef Lord Maynard Llera gives the dishes of his childhood in the Philippines a punchy modern twist. For home-style Oaxacan plates, try women-owned Tlayuda Restaurant. And Marouch is a must-try for its fine-tuned Lebanese and Armenian meze.

Local cafés

Café Telegrama is a chic bet for brunch, with a speciality tea menu and ricotta pancakes that have a devoted local fanbase. Swing by Sasoun Bakery early — their lahmacun, tahini bread and other Armenian pastries have a habit of selling out fast.

Local bars

Nurse Old Fashioneds and elevated bar bites in a Gatsby-esque setting at the Edmon, a craft cocktail bar set in a historic Art Deco building. Bar Etoile is a natural wine bar and bistro with a French-leaning cellar and a food menu focused on farmers’ market produce.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this music lovers’ hotel in East Hollywood and unpacked their custom records and dance-floor kicks, a full account of their DJ-soundtracked stay will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Gold-Diggers in Los Angeles…

It’s hard to sort the fact from the fantastical at East Hollywood’s Gold-Diggers. In decades past, it’s been a Route 66 stopover, a bikini bar, a Fifties film studio and — according to local hearsay — a rehearsal room for The Doors and Jimi Hendrix.

Today, it’s a rock’n’roll multihyphenate — boutique hotel, music venue, recording studio — where Stevie Wonder has been known to play a quick set or two. Discover rising-star artists under the dive bar’s disco-ball chandeliers, a draft ale in your hand and last night’s mascara making do as a smoky eye. If the muse backs into you on the dancefloor, book out one of the bells-and-whistles studios. Otherwise, it’s a few steps to your mid-century-glam room, where you can jot down lyrics to the hum of a vintage record. It’s cleaned up its act since its wild youth, but this place still knows how to party — and these days, you’ll be the one spinning a yarn that sounds a little too cool to be true.

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