The Purple Passport to Los Angeles

The Purple Passport to Los Angeles is part of the eBook guide series by The Purple Passport (www.thepurplepassport.com), which also includes The Purple Passport to London, The Purple Passport to Paris, and The Purple Passport to Palm Beach. Essential reading for hip, discerning travelers and on-the-go locals, the Los Angeles guide provides insider tips on over 100 handpicked venues, covering hotels, nightlife venues, restaurants, shops, sights, and spas.


The carefully curated selection of venues, organized by neighborhood for quick and easy reference, allows readers to create distinctive Los Angeles experiences. These include checking into an Old Hollywood castle on a hill that once played host to the likes of Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh; indulging in a luxurious massage in a poolside cabana fit for a starlet; shopping for designer denim and fresh-from-runway couture elbow to elbow with Young Hollywood trendsetters; rambling through lush sculpture gardens with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean in the backdrop; dining on glam Japanese fare while taking in the buzzing crowd on the hottest see-and-be-seen restaurant terrace; and sipping extravagant cocktails amid live jazz and film industry power brokers. Helpful maps and city-orienting information about transportation, seasonal highlights, and local culture are also included.


The Purple Passport to Los Angeles will soon be joined by eBook guides for other cities found on The Purple Passport’s website (www.thepurplepassport.com). Users of the website can also take advantage of the site's unique functionality features, including mapping and trip planning tools. Founders Jennifer Garcia-Alonso and Emily C. Brands launched The Purple Passport in 2010 with online guides to London, Beijing, and Los Angeles, and Palm Beach and Paris guides followed in 2011. The New York guide debuted in 2012; guides to Taipei and Washington, DC are forthcoming.



The Purple Passport team personally visits every spot that it reviews and never accepts compensation for featuring a venue on the site or in its eBooks. First-person accounts of the team's travel experiences can be found on the companion blog, The Diary of The Purple Passport (diary.thepurplepassport.com).