Hollywood swimming pool for paparazzi-set

"Star-laden swimming pool renews once forgotten Hollywood hotel"
- Ann Vine, Editorial Review Author

Post-management shake-up leads to quieter bar scene

The Place:

Tropicana Bar

The Scene:

While Hollywood & Highland never amounted to more than a bad mall, the Roosevelt and its star-frequented pool comes full-circle to epitomize the quintessential hot spot. Located poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, Tropicana Bar brings a bit of St.Tropez and Nikki Beach to area nightlife. The bar employs a Polynesian-meets- minimalist theme while accenting the historic elements of the location – most notably the Hockney-designed underwater mural.

JetSet Tips:

You'll need to be a hotel guest or at least act like your name is on the guest-list to get through the door.

Last Word:

More than space and design, what has changed most is the crowd of people that the hotel has managed to attract to the once tourist-laden pool. Cool, chic pretty people have suddenly appeared by day and night as Demme single-handedly picks who gets in and who doesn’t. Gone are the burger-eating bellies that single-handedly exorcised everything sexy and chic from the location over the last 30 years, and in their place the sandal-wearing Olson-sisters and Hilton-types who epitomize the current barometer of Hollywood hotness.