A giant swimming pool inside the Pool Suite at the Proper Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS
A giant swimming pool inside the Pool Suite at the Proper Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS

A hotel suite with a swimming pool, or space for basketball? Proper Hotel in Los Angeles ticks the boxes for over-the-top

  • The Downtown LA Proper Hotel, in a 1920s building that housed a private club for Los Angeles’ business elite, offers a new take on deluxe urban hotels
  • With two restaurants, vintage furnishings, a suite with its own pool and another converted from a basketball court, the hotel awaits a post-Covid travel rebound

A giant swimming pool inside the Pool Suite at the Proper Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS
A giant swimming pool inside the Pool Suite at the Proper Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS
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