CASETTA COLLECTION · SOUTHWEST & WEST COAST

After years of booking properties across the world, the hotels I

find myself recommending most passionately share one quality:

they feel like someone's home — only with better bedding.

Casetta has quietly assembled a collection of independently-

spirited boutique properties across the American West that have stopped me mid-sentence more than once.

ALL PROPERTIES FEATURE AĒSOP BATHROOM AMENITIES ·

PARACHUTE HOME BEDDING & BATH LINENS

THE PROPERTIES

PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA · SOUTHWEST

Casa Cody

Where the desert exhales.

Palm Springs has no shortage of mid-century motel revivals, but Casa

Cody arrives with genuine soul. Tucked into the southwest end of town

— a neighborhood where the pace drops a beat below even Palm

Springs' generous standard — it carries the kind of lived-in warmth you can't manufacture with a renovation budget alone.

This is the property I recommend when clients want the desert to feel

like a discovery rather than an Instagram backdrop. Adobe walls,

dappled shade, and an intimacy that makes you feel like you've been let

in on something private.

BIG BEAR, CALIFORNIA · WATERFRONT

Marina Riviera

Right on the water — exactly as promised.

Big Bear is where Southern Californians have always escaped — but the

lodging has historically lagged behind the landscape. Marina Riviera changes that conversation. Sitting right on the water, this is mountain-

lake hospitality done with the care and intention it always deserved.

My clients who've stayed here talk about the light. Morning on a

mountain lake has a quality that's genuinely hard to describe — and

Marina Riviera positions you perfectly to receive it.

ON-SITE RESTAURANT

De La Nonna — Italian-inspired cuisine served with the kind of ease that

only makes sense lakeside. Dinner here, especially as the sun drops

behind the ridge, is reason enough to book.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

The Pearl

Retro, reimagined — and regularly ranked among the best in the country.

23 rooms. Remodeled in 2019. Consistently cited as one of the best

retro hotels in the United States — and I'd argue that ranking undersells

it. The Pearl doesn't just nod to mid-century design; it inhabits it with a

wit and confidence that feels entirely its own.

San Diego has a lot of hotels. This is the one my clients mention unprompted when I see them six months later. The pool scene, the laid-back energy, the sense that everyone around you chose this place deliberately — it adds up to something genuinely irreplaceable.

POOLSIDE RESTAURANT

Ponyboy — The name says everything you need to know about the vibe.

Settle in poolside and let the afternoon disappear.

TAOS, NEW MEXICO · SOUTHWEST

Hotel Willa

Just celebrated one year — already essential.

Taos has been drawing artists, seekers, and wanderers for over a

century. Hotel Willa arrives as its ideal modern counterpart: 51 guest

rooms, walking distance to downtown, and immediate access to the

landscape that's made this corner of New Mexico legendary. Mountain

biking, kayaking, rock climbing — you're minutes from all of it.

They just marked their first anniversary, and the energy is exactly what

you want in a young property — attentive, eager, still delighted by every

guest who walks through the door. I love booking a hotel in its first year

for clients who appreciate being part of something before the world

catches on.

ON-SITE RESTAURANT

Juliette — Seasonal and heritage-inspired dishes that ground you in the

New Mexico landscape. This is thoughtful cooking that earns its place

alongside the scenery.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Hotel Lucile

25 ROOMS DOWNTOWN LA OPENING SUMMER 2026

Twenty-five rooms in the heart of it all.

I've been watching Hotel Lucile's opening with genuine anticipation.

Downtown Los Angeles — the real one, not the freeway-adjacent idea of

it — has been quietly transforming into somewhere worth staying, and

25 thoughtfully designed rooms from Casetta will be a significant

addition to that story.

This is the property for clients who want LA without the insulation of a

resort bubble. Book it early. By the time summer ends, there won't be a

room to be had.

MALIBU, CALIFORNIA · 40 MIN FROM LAX

Surfrider Malibu

Twenty rooms.

Forty minutes from LAX, and it feels like another planet entirely. Surfrider

Malibu's 20 rooms are the entry point to a property that has thought

carefully about what a beach hotel should actually offer: surfboard and

paddle-board rentals, beach picnics, surf lessons, beach yoga, and a

rooftop deck bar where the ocean is always in view.

The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner — and the cooking

keeps pace with the setting, which is saying something. This is the

property I recommend to clients who want to arrive in California and feel

it immediately, without hours of driving or settling in. Forty minutes from

the international terminal, and the salt air is already doing its work.

RESTAURANT & ROOFTOP BAR

Full-service dining all day — Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a rooftop

bar that makes the Pacific look even better than it already does.