travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Casa del Mar

Hotel Casa del Mar travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Boasting a prime location directly on the beach opposite its enchanting Hamptons-inspired kin, Shutters on the Beach, this is Santa Monica's most luxurious beachfront hotel, once carved out of the former Club Del Mar, a 1920s haunt of Hollywood's elite.

Over the years this beautiful brick building has been many things to many people—a health spa and a cultish drug rehab center during the 1970s—but it seems Casa Del Mar has finally come full-circle, provid...