The Eden Hotel
1301 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401, United StatesWe earn commission through affiliate links if you make a purchase through them which help us maintain and improve the site.
About The Eden Hotel
Designed to suggest an ocean liner on land, The Eden’s flowing Streamline Moderne architecture gives this Santa Monica bluff-top hotel its defining character. The former Hotel Shangri-La reopened as The Eden in June 2025, preserving a landmark setting above the Pacific on Ocean Avenue. Accommodations range from compact city-facing rooms to ocean-view suites with separate living areas and full kitchens, making the building as suited to settling in as to a short coastal visit. Marble bathrooms and jetted soaking tubs feature in many room categories. Beyond the rooms, a heated saltwater pool and hot tub offer a reason to linger, while the beach and Santa Monica Pier are close by.
Why Celebrities Love The Eden Hotel
Celebrities love the chance to settle into ocean-view suites with separate living rooms and full kitchens, enjoying apartment-style space above the Pacific and a heated saltwater pool between outings.
Reported celebrity guests
2 guestsMadonna
One of the early jewels of the Santa Monica waterfront, the Hotel Shangri-La is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2019 and just underwent an extensive $30 million update that pays homage to the hotel’s Art Deco heritage. Most recently, the hotel served as one of the main TV filming locations of “ The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, ” and, according to the hotel’s CEO and creative director, Tamie Adaya, Versace himself was known to frequent the hotel during the 1980s, along with his good friend Madonna, and her then-partner, Sean Penn.
Sean Penn
Hotel Shangri-La (Santa Monica) One of the early jewels of the Santa Monica waterfront, the Hotel Shangri-La is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2019 and just underwent an extensive $30 million update that pays homage to the hotel’s Art Deco heritage. Most recently, the hotel served as one of the main TV filming locations of “ The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, ” and, according to the hotel’s CEO and creative director, Tamie Adaya, Versace himself was known to frequent the hotel during the 1980s, along with his good friend Madonna, and her then-partner, Sean Penn. Adaya says Versace favored the penthouse suite, with wrap-around terrace views of the Pacific.