what the heck are you going to do with 10 days in La-La-Land, other than totally lose whatever is left of your mind and your pocketbook, your sense of reality and your common sense? It is wonderful if your sense of style and "substance" includes Donald Trump or Paris Hilton, but for me, it is somewhere between the 4th and 5th levels of Hell in Dante'[s hierarchy.

The "new" InterContinental is pretty good assuming you're going to do stuff in Century City. But it's a decidedly ghastly place for tourism, and pretty much a decidedly ghastly place, period.