We're Immediately Booking a Vacation at This Glamorous San Diego Hotel
An exuberant urban oasis with viral potential, San Diego's The LaFayette is the first hospitality concept from CH Projects, the company behind hot local restaurants like Youngblood and Born & Raised. Built in 1946, the Colonial-style hotel and club, situated on two and a half acres in the city's North Park neighborhood, once hosted the likes of Lana Turner and Frank Sinatra.
That's not to say its heyday has passed. Recently restored by Brooklyn-based Post Company, the property now features 139 rooms alongside bungalows designed for group travel. There are a half dozen dining options including a 24/7 diner and a “jungle room” with live entertainment, decoratively inspired by 1920's New York nightclubs; a game room with a two-lane bowling alley—modeled, somewhat ambitiously, after the basement of the Frick Collection; and a swimming pool, originally designed by Olympic gold medalist Johnny Weissmuller, at the hotel's beating social heart.
The producer Swizz Beatz even created the hotel's official soundtrack, which plays throughout the day on a custom-built speaker system designed by Devon Turnbull. Needless to say, we're listening.
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