travel42 Hotel Review: Sunset Marquis

Sunset Marquis travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This plush three-acre former stable for Hollywood's black sheep may be puny compared to billionaire-owner George Rosenthal's 100-acre Malibu vineyard, but it still bears his signature modern style and quirky personality (the house wine is from the proprietor's winery).

Built in 1963, The Sunset Marquis was technically the world's first all-suite hotel—ironically, it is the mother of every anemic Embassy Suites, Residence Inn and Extended Stay ever built—b...