Hotel Highlight: Pali House & Pali Hotel

Where: Los Angeles, California, USA

Why: The Pali Group of hotels (Pali House, Pali Hotel) offer so many of the characteristics I appreciate about travel and hotels; a great location, limited number of rooms to maintain intimacy, well thought-out design, cool but not trendy, stylish but not pretentious, independent, affordable, a seamless part of the neighborhood, a collaborative endeavor, re-purposing an old building instead of a new-build, and a brand I am inspired to follow throughout their journey.

Quotes from the brand’s Founder, Avi Brosh, that tells it how it is and every word is a testament to what he as materialized:

“We embraced the original details in the overall design aspect, keeping and bringing out the best design components. We wanted to show how they relate to today and put our own spin on it. We have a pied-à-terre mentality and a residential sensibility in our design…… Fundamentally, we have the same aesthetic for all of our properties—a residential feel and neighborhood-style space. We’re not trendy in the design perspective. With every location, I curate the different kinds of ways that the different design pieces feel organic in the mixing and matching.”

“I want the hotel to be the local inn, where people from the community come in and become a fabric of the neighborhood.”

 “Hotels are amenities to the neighborhood and the best ones service the community.”

“People like luxury, but I’d rather be in place where I feel like I’m in the city that I’m in.”

“What is the future of the boutique hotel experience? I think it’s my responsibility to deliver on promise. What’s that promise? It’s being able to deliver a place where we can all be in on the joke, where we can be relied upon to provide an inspired experience. The best boutiques are the ones that do that. The future of boutique hotels is not about size or design or asset class. It’s about going back to the beginning, back to what Morgans did. That’s delving on this promise to create an authentic ad hoc community of like-minded people that for an evening or a few nights transcend nationality or who believe who they are. It’s a promise that a guest be whoever they want to be for that night.”