The Los Angeles Athletic Club

The Los Angeles Athletic Club occupies a historic 12-story building at the heart of downtown L.A., an easy walk from everything in the Financial District—including the Los Angeles Convention Center, Staples Center, and LA Live. Founded in 1880 as the first private club in L.A., it still promotes its membership’s health, recreation, grace, and vigor (to paraphrase the motto). But today it also offers visitors a newly renovated grand ballroom and foyer, eight meeting rooms, and first-class catering on the third and fourth floors; a rooftop reception venue; and 72 deluxe hotel rooms and suites on floors 10 through 12.

Guests between meetings can join members in everything from kickboxing to yoga, basketball to swimming in the spectacular sixth-floor pool. The choice of three bars and restaurants affords drinks, meals, and breaks throughout the day and evening. Plus, the hotel treats guests to a full
breakfast each day in The Grill Room.

Like members, guests of the club enjoy highly personalized service from the caring staff, a tradition dating back even before Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Raymond Chandler, Johnny Weissmuller, and Esther Williams joined the club. One modern-day member described the atmosphere as a cross between an urban country club and the TV show Cheers. Still a cornerstone of the downtown community, the L.A. institution invites groups to experience Los Angeles from the inside.