The Maybourne Beverly Hills

Where Canon Drive Meets London-Grade Service

Pull up to 225 North Canon Drive and the building reads as classic Beverly Hills: eight floors of warm California materiality, positioned two blocks from Rodeo Drive in the heart of the Golden Triangle. The lobby floor greets you with beige and white mosaic tiling that reappears, by design, in every guest bathroom — a quiet coherence that signals intention rather than coincidence. This is not a hotel assembled from a luxury checklist. It is the American flagship of the Maybourne Hotel Group, whose London portfolio includes Claridge's, The Berkeley, and The Connaught. That lineage sets the expectation for how staff behave before a guest has even checked in.

Beverly Hills's luxury hotel tier is crowded and competitive. The Beverly Hills Hotel and The Peninsula Beverly Hills both hold Michelin 3 Keys. Hotel Bel-Air, just over the hill, also sits at three keys. The Maybourne Beverly Hills received Michelin 2 Keys in 2024 — placing it in a peer bracket alongside Chateau Marmont and The Sun Rose West Hollywood. What separates it from those peers is the institutional service culture imported from Mayfair: a trained attentiveness that reads less like hospitality-industry protocol and more like the habits of a household that has been running smoothly for a century.

The Rooms: Californian Light, London Precision

Interior designer Bryan O'Sullivan shaped the 201 rooms and suites in close collaboration with the Maybourne group, arriving at a palette of Californian pastels , warm creams, sandy neutrals, soft sage , that works with the natural light rather than against it. The furniture is bespoke. The sheets are Fili D'oro at 500 thread count. Bedside panels control curtains and lighting simultaneously, the kind of detail that matters at 7am when you'd rather not move. Almost all rooms include a private terrace, with the better categories offering furnished balconies or patios facing the courtyard. At a rack rate of $1,434 per night, the accommodations are positioned at the leading of the Beverly Hills market, and the room design carries the weight of that pricing without apology.

The bathroom tiling , the same mosaic pattern from the lobby floor , gives the rooms a sense of continuity with the public spaces. It is a small architectural decision that most guests will register subconsciously and forget to mention, which is precisely the point. Hotels of this caliber succeed by making the guest feel at ease without being able to articulate why.

Dining and Drinking Across Five Formats

The Maybourne Beverly Hills runs five distinct food and beverage outlets, which is a significant operational commitment for a 201-room hotel. Dante Beverly Hills and The Terrace handle full dining across the day, offering California-inspired cuisine and handcrafted cocktails. The Maybourne Café covers lighter bites. The Maybourne Bar serves as an evening option for those who want drinks without committing to dinner. And then there is the Whisky Bar: a small, intimate space that pours aged Macallan scotch, including a single $64,000 shot of one of the rarest bottlings available anywhere in the city. The bar is not positioned for volume. It is positioned for the specific type of guest who knows what they are looking at.

Dining program earns its place in any serious Los Angeles restaurant conversation, but the hotel's particular strength is that you need not leave the property at any point during a stay. The full-day coverage across five formats is rare at this scale, and the quality consistency across them is rarer still. Guests arriving late from LAX, guests wanting an early pool-adjacent lunch, guests ending a night in the Whisky Bar , the programming accounts for all of them.

The Ninth Floor: Pool, Views, Cabanas

Rooftop pool is tiled in blue mosaic and surrounded by cabanas with chairs and towels in sufficient supply that competition for space is not the defining experience, as it is at several comparable properties in West Hollywood and Santa Monica. The underwater sound system , music plays beneath the surface as you swim , is one of those details that reads as gimmick in description and delivers as experience in practice. From the ninth floor, the sightlines extend across Beverly Hills to the Hollywood Hills, with the Hollywood sign visible on a clear day. This is the kind of view that guests in a city of views still stop to photograph.

For an alternative perspective on coastal California luxury at the water's edge, Casa del Mar in Santa Monica offers a different register. For a property further removed from the city, Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur occupies a different category entirely. The Maybourne Beverly Hills is specifically and deliberately urban , the rooftop view celebrates the city rather than escaping it.

The Spa and Curated Experiences

The spa operates with a program that extends beyond the standard treatment menu. The oxygen facial and Uma Ayurveda immersion body treatments reflect a wellness positioning that draws on both local California health culture and international traditions. The hotel also offers a set of curated guest experiences: a Japan-inspired mixology class, a mural tour of the surrounding neighbourhood, and a guided city hike. These are not filler programming. They address the common problem of luxury hotel guests who want structured engagement with a city beyond shopping and dining.

The mural tour, in particular, places the hotel in conversation with the broader Los Angeles art scene , a city whose public art has expanded significantly over the past decade. Guests at comparable properties who want similar engagement with LA's cultural fabric might also consider Downtown LA Proper Hotel, which sits closer to the major museum institutions. The Maybourne's version is neighbourhood-focused and walkable, which suits its Golden Triangle location.

Location and the Beverly Hills Context

Golden Triangle , the commercial district bounded by Wilshire, Santa Monica, and Rexford , is the tightest concentration of high-end retail and dining in Los Angeles. Rodeo Drive is within walking distance. The bar scene and restaurant density of West Hollywood sit a short drive to the north and east. L'Ermitage Beverly Hills operates nearby in the same residential-adjacency tier. Chateau Marmont, though technically in West Hollywood, captures a different kind of guest entirely.

For guests whose primary purpose is engagement with Los Angeles proper , its neighbourhoods, its restaurants, its cultural institutions , the Golden Triangle location is a starting point, not a destination. The Maybourne Beverly Hills operates with the understanding that its guests have lives in this city or are treating it as a serious destination rather than a backdrop. The hotel's programming, dining depth, and service culture are calibrated accordingly.

Comparable group properties internationally give some indication of the standard the Maybourne name carries. Aman New York and Badrutt's Palace Hotel in St. Moritz operate in the same tier of institutionally serious luxury. Within the US, Auberge du Soleil in Napa and Four Seasons at The Surf Club in Surfside offer different geographies at comparable ambition levels. The Maybourne Beverly Hills holds La Liste's Leading Hotels recognition at 96.5 points for 2026 and placed 34th on Condé Nast's Leading Hotels list for 2025 , external validators that reflect consistent critical assessment rather than a single strong year.

Planning Your Stay

The hotel sits at 225 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, with 201 rooms across multiple categories, almost all with private terrace access. Room rates from $1,434 per night position the property at the leading of the Beverly Hills market. The full suite of dining , from the Whisky Bar to Dante Beverly Hills , means the property functions as a self-contained program when required. For guests planning broader Los Angeles visits, the experiences guide and wineries guide for the region offer additional context for programming time outside the hotel.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the standout feature of The Maybourne Beverly Hills?

The combination of Maybourne group service culture , drawn from the same institutional standards as Claridge's and The Connaught , with a Beverly Hills setting gives the hotel a distinctive character in its competitive tier. The ninth-floor rooftop pool with Hollywood Hills views and the Whisky Bar's aged Macallan program (including a $64,000 pour) are the two most discussed features. The hotel holds La Liste Leading Hotels recognition at 96.5 points for 2026, Condé Nast's Leading Hotels ranking at #34 for 2025, and Michelin 2 Keys, placing it below the 3 Keys tier held by The Beverly Hills Hotel and The Peninsula Beverly Hills but well within the upper bracket of the city's luxury hotel market.

What room type is worth requesting at The Maybourne Beverly Hills?

Almost all 201 rooms include a private terrace, but the higher categories offer furnished balconies or patios facing the courtyard with more usable outdoor space. Rooms were renovated in collaboration with designer Bryan O'Sullivan, with bespoke furniture, 500-thread-count Fili D'oro sheets, and bedside panel controls for curtains and lighting. The beige and white mosaic tiling in each bathroom mirrors the lobby floor , a detail that distinguishes the interiors from comparable Beverly Hills properties. At $1,434 per night base rate, the room quality is consistent with Maybourne group standards across its London properties.

Does The Maybourne Beverly Hills require a reservation?

For room bookings, advance reservations are advisable given the hotel's consistent recognition across La Liste, Condé Nast, and Michelin, which sustains demand throughout the year. The Whisky Bar, given its intimate scale, also warrants advance planning for those wanting access to the Macallan program. The hotel's dining outlets , Dante Beverly Hills, The Terrace, The Maybourne Café, and The Maybourne Bar , cover a range of formats across the day, offering more flexibility for guests already in-house. Direct booking through the hotel's official channels is the standard approach for this tier of property.