Fodor's Expert Review Hotel Erwin

A boutique hotel a block off the Venice Beach Boardwalk, the Erwin will make you feel like a hipper version of yourself. It has spacious, modern, airy rooms and a local-favorite rooftop bar and lounge (appropriately named High). Splashes of orange, yellow, and green add playfulness to the clean white guest rooms, and on the sixth level, rooms have tiled floors and higher ceilings than elsewhere in the hotel. Guests rave about the Byrd bathroom products. Under the helm of Executive Chef Ashley Truman, Venice Way Pizza features praiseworthy "slabs" or whole pies; along with the rooftop bar's small-bites selections, the dining options here emphasize fresh ingredients and dishes made from scratch. Guests have free use of the hotel's bicycles.