Chateau Marmont, Sunset Tower Offer Free Rooms to L.A. Firefighters

Chateau Marmont and Sunset Tower — known to play host to star-studded dinners and awards show parties — are joining relief efforts to support firefighters and displaced Angelenos amid the Los Angeles wildfires.

In an Instagram post on Saturday afternoon, Chateau Marmont announced that it would open its private cottages — which start at $1,165 per night and surround a lush landscaped courtyard adjacent to the hotel’s pool — for the next week to “firefighters and members of the unions representing our city’s creative industries.” (The hotel in 2022 ratified a landmark union contract that included a 25 percent wage increase for returning non-tipped workers, free family health insurance for those who work at least 60 hours per month and free legal services for immigration, consumer and tenant issues, to name a few.)

“To the heros [sic] and victims in the Hollywood community who’ve lost their homes… We’d like to invite you to our safe haven. For the next week, we’re making our cottages available for complimentary two-night stays,” wrote the Andrés Balasz-owned destination. The spaces are available on a first-come, first-serve basis to those who call the hotel’s phone number.

Built in the 1930s, the nine “cozy Craftsman-style cottages [are] grouped around a landscaped courtyard adjacent to the pool accessible through a private street entrance,” per Chateau’s website. The options include 600- to 700-square-foot temporary residences that house a master suite, a kitchen, full bathroom and a “nicely sized living area with hardwood floors.” The standalone abodes were purchased by Chateau Marmont in the 1940s.

Chateau Marmont most recently hosted W magazine’s annual Best Performances party during the Golden Globes, while its Bar Marmont was the scene of Brunello Cucinelli’s second-annual soirée.

A stone’s throw down the boulevard, Sunset Tower is also taking in evacuees and those who have lost their homes in the Palisades and Eaton fires.

Sunset Tower owner Jeff Klein told Vanity Fair, “Hopefully what we’re able to provide is a quick escape from the stresses and anxieties that they’re going through, by providing hospitality and a cool place and a nice drink and some live music and whatnot, to really just kind of alleviate all the stress… For an hour or two, they can come downstairs to the lobby bar, or to the Tower Bar, and have dinner, but it still doesn’t take away from all that’s going on.”

Vanity Fair also reports that Beverly Hills Hotel, the Four Seasons, the Waldorf Astoria and the Peninsula are among the luxury getaways that are at capacity. Other hotels across L.A. have offered discounts to those affected by the wildfires, including the Kimpton La Peer Hotel, Shutters on the Beach, Mondrian Hotels and the Hoxton Downtown L.A.

The L.A. blazes have so far burned 35,000 acres and destroyed over 12,000 structures, and at least 11 people have died, according to Cal Fire.