"Walking down a mellow street in Palermo Hollywood, you might not notice that a boutique hotel lies just beyond the wooden gate. Look up and you’ll see a five-story building, built to LEED standards, with a glass-and-iron façade that supports a 90-foot vertical garden. For access, guests—tattooed, Adidas-wearing, white-haired creatives and Gen X'ers in skinny jeans and black-framed Ray Ban sunglasses—buzz in and enter a small lobby. There’s a tiny splash pool and jacuzzi in the rooftop, which kids will love. As the country's (self-proclaimed) first urban green hotel, Palo Santo has put environmental practices in place, such as rainwater recovery, energy efficiency in rooms and in its architecture, low emissions and CO2 recovery, and more. Instead of plastic water bottles, rooms come with glass bottles of filtered water that guests can refill in the lobby at their convenience." - Celeste Moure
