First look: Inside Regent Santa Monica Seashore, IHG’s new ultraluxury US flagship resort

One in all TPG’s most anticipated resort openings of the yr is lastly right here with the arrival of Regent Santa Monica Seashore, a return to the U.S. for the ultraluxury resort model.

It isn’t Regent’s first rodeo in Higher Los Angeles, both. That distinction belongs to the previous Regent Beverly Wilshire, a luxe Beverly Hills, California, resort that was the backdrop to “Fairly Girl” and has since turn into a 4 Seasons. Some would possibly say “Fairly Girl” made Regent as a lot of a star because it did Julia Roberts, however possibly that is simply me!

For the reason that Beverly Hills years, the Regent model has turn into extra of an unique, bespoke luxurious resort providing now owned by IHG Motels & Resorts, and with a smaller property rely in areas like Hong Kong (arguably the model’s best-known property), Phu Quoc in Vietnam, Shanghai and Cannes within the south of France.

“It’s an honor to reintroduce this legacy model to Southern California and ignite a brand new period of unforgettable reminiscences for our friends in Santa Monica,” Younes Atallah, basic supervisor of Regent Santa Monica Seashore, stated in a ready assertion. “Our resort captures the distinctive attract of Santa Monica in a serene setting the place you possibly can disconnect from the skin world and expertise Regent’s legendary hospitality in your phrases.”

The brand new U.S. flagship in Santa Monica, California, offers People an opportunity to expertise Regent’s new model aesthetic, which has already been wowing vacationers in European and Asian areas.

For starters, Regent Santa Monica Seashore friends can anticipate quite a lot of elbow room with entry-level rooms beginning at 720 sq. toes. By comparability, visitor rooms at IHG’s glitzy InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown begin at 415 sq. toes. A lot of the Regent’s 167 visitor rooms and suites — in addition to an elevated pool deck — characteristic Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Pier views.

Chantell Walsh of Strategic Motels & Resorts oversaw the resort’s design route, which incorporates work by design agency AvroKO’s San Francisco studio. Luxurious style and seascapes are the design vibe at Regent Santa Monica Seashore, the place influences of boat sails, yachts and sandy shores are on show all through.

You may as well anticipate to go by framed brass archways, yacht-style flooring and a shade palette of inexperienced, gold and cream all through the property. The excessive seas meet a excessive thread rely, it seems.

“As we open the doorways to Regent Santa Monica Seashore, we have a good time not solely the homecoming of Regent to the Americas however a brand new chapter for the model that may usher in an unprecedented stage of luxurious alongside Santa Monica’s prized coast,” Tom Rowntree, IHG’s vice chairman of worldwide luxurious and way of life manufacturers, stated in an announcement. “Half a century in the past, Regent Motels & Resorts pioneered fashionable luxurious hospitality by introducing facilities which are hospitality hallmarks at present. As we welcome Regent again to Los Angeles, the model units its sights on innovating luxurious journey with a resort that may redefine Southern California hospitality and set a brand new commonplace for magnificence, serenity, and considerate service.”

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Arriving friends can get pleasure from a beverage from Regent Santa Monica Seashore’s complimentary Refreshment Gallery, which options drinks and snacks curated forward of arrival to the friends’ preferences. The resort additionally options the Regent model’s Private Havens, retreats inside public areas and visitor rooms meant to be locations for friends to chill out.

Spacious loos with soaking tubs, walk-in rain showers and Perricone MD merchandise give every of the Wimberly Interiors-designed visitor rooms and suites a spa vibe. In-room options additionally embody eating areas and workstations, Bose audio system and Dyson hair dryers.

Splurge on the Santa Monica Presidential Suite to get pleasure from a whopping 3,200 sq. toes of residing house and panoramic ocean views. If you happen to’re seeking to be ever-so-slightly much less ostentatious, the Oceanfront Atrium Two-Story Two-Bed room Suite is a “mere” 2,180 sq. toes throughout the resort’s second and third flooring and consists of king-size beds in each bedrooms.

Wimberly Interiors additionally designed the resort’s Guerlain Wellness Spa, which is supposed to be a wedding of California coastal stylish and Mediterranean magnificence. The ten,000-square-foot venue is Guerlain’s first spa on the West Coast. The house options 12 therapy rooms, a pretreatment leisure lounge and gender-specific lounges with plunge swimming pools, saunas and steam rooms. Following your therapy on the Guerlain spa, you possibly can unwind within the facility’s post-treatment leisure lounge and Champagne room — as a result of a glass of fizz is the final word praise to a post-facial glow.

Regent Santa Monica Seashore additionally options quite a lot of eating choices, together with chef Michael Mina’s Mediterranean-inspired Orla and Orla Bar. Candy July Cafe from restaurateur Ayesha Curry is a nod to California farmers markets, in addition to Curry’s Jamaican heritage. The outside Azure Bar is the resort’s poolside bar and eating possibility.

The Azure Pool space overlooks the seaside and consists of cabanas and sunbeds for these seeking to soak in some rays. For these in search of just a little extra vigor of their wellness journey, Regent Santa Monica Seashore’s health middle consists of a mixture of energy and cardio machines appropriate for quite a lot of health regimens.

The opening of Regent Santa Monica Seashore is the most recent in IHG’s progress streak for the broader Regent model, which incorporates upcoming openings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Kyoto, Japan. Coupled with the continuing progress of IHG’s Six Senses model, it seems the resort big’s ultraluxury runway has no limits.

Charges at Regent Santa Monica Seashore begin at $1,100 or 170,000 IHG One Rewards factors per night time.