Which California and Las Vegas hotels are the best in the world? Conde Nast Traveler has the list

At Conde Nast Traveler, the editors and writers have spoken. And they’re plenty careful when they’re asked to recommend their favorite hotels in the world for 2016.

Their collective voice has been compiled in the magazine’s Gold List 2016, which includes hotels and resorts on six continents in 47 countries. (Don’t confuse this with Conde Nast’s crowd-sourced Readers’ Choice Awards.)

Seven California hotels made the cut, including two in West Hollywood, and a classic and classy national park lodge.

Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles (160 rooms in historic 1927 United Artists building)

Shown is the stage at the theater in the vintage Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles building at 937 S. Broadway.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley (50 rooms on “33 acres of vineyards and olive groves”)

The Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood (63 rooms with a castle-like facade on L.A.’s Sunset Strip)

The Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood has a castle-like facade.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles (103 rooms in the hotel that closed for two years for a big renovation)

Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica (198 rooms provide a front-row seat to Muscle Beach and other beachy landmarks)

Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood (74 rooms in a hotel where breakfast at the Terrace restaurant brings on the big views)

The Sunset Tower Hotel stands at 8358 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park (123 rooms in the 1927 landmark lodge where anyone can gather in the living room and grab a drink or a cuppa)

Six Las Vegas hotels also made the list: Aria, Bellagio, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the Palazzo, the Venetian and Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.

Go to the 2016 Gold List to see the entire list of hotels worldwide.

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