The Top 4 Hotels in Laguna Beach
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Perched on a bluff above Laguna Beach, this arts-and-crafts resort channels the romantic vision of the town's early twentieth-century artists' colony through stone architecture, curated galleries, and garden pathways that descend toward white sand. The lobby bar stages live music and sunset cocktails while fire pits glow across grounds designed as much for wandering as for staying still.
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Nestled in canyons above the Pacific Coast Highway, this restored golf-club-turned-hotel preserves Laguna Beach's artistic past while offering spa facilities and outdoor activities across eighty-seven acres. Deer graze the grounds and owls call at dusk—a nature retreat that feels removed from the resort world, even as it courts both relaxation and adventure.
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A two-story mid-century motel on the Coast Highway finds new life under Palisociety's stewardship, its bones dusted off and its rooms dressed in a hybrid sensibility that borrows equally from coastal California, Northeastern prep, and European restraint. The result feels neither retro pastiche nor generic refresh—instead, a place that knows what it is and commits to it without apology.
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A twenty-two-room hotel built on the garden-courtyard model of a Laguna Beach from decades past, Casa Laguna trades the boutique pretense of its neighbors for genuine smallness and a breakfast that arrives with its own modest legend. The rooms feel less like inventory and more like invitations to linger in what remains of the town's quieter era.