Rooms are tucked among palm trees and exotic potted plants. At night, the whole place is sprinkled with fairy lights and romance. Everything buzzes and trickles, with creatures making their happy homes and fountains in abundance. I leap onto the bed deep in 78 pillows, so crisp and so clean, while the most charming of bellboys lights the fire. Cosy just took on a whole new meaning.

I love finding places in LA that hold a little history. The pool house, surrounded by avocado trees, used to be the Bel-Air stables back in the 1920s. And one of the suites, the old Bel-Air sales offices, has its original beautiful wooden ceiling still intact after all its glory. Marilyn Monroe did her very last photo shoot here six weeks before she died. And I'm pretty sure Grace Kelly would have loved the suite they named after her, with hand-painted flowers all over the walls; the place is all about princesses.