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The Stay Awhile Journal

INSIDE FROM THE WORLD OF LUXURY VACATION LIVING

Field notes, market analysis, and hospitality perspectives from the team managing some of the most distinctive homes in Beverly Hills, Malibu, Hollywood Hills, and Fort Lauderdale.

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Glowing lantern arches, flowers and holiday trees reflected on a wet path at L.A. Zoo Lights in Griffith Park, Los Angeles Latest story Travel Guides · November 9, 2026 · 11 min read LA Zoo Lights 2026: Dates, Tickets and Where to Stay Nearby LA Zoo Lights is the holiday night out that Los Angeles families plan around. After the daytime crowds leave, the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park fills with larger-than-life light Read the story The best luxury home rentals in Los Angeles: a private villa with pool by Stay Awhile Villas Vacation Rentals · October 30, 2026 · 11 min read The Best Luxury Home Rentals in Los Angeles for 2027 The best luxury home rentals in Los Angeles are remembered for small moments more than square footage. The first swim before anyone else is awake. A long lunch that drifts Read the story Travel Guides · October 23, 2026 · 11 min read Corporate Retreats Near LA, From Malibu to Wine Country The best offsites rarely happen in a hotel ballroom. They happen around a long kitchen island at eight in the morning, on a bluff-top deck after a strategy session, or Read the story Travel Guides · October 16, 2026 · 9 min read Christmas in Beverly Hills December in Beverly Hills has a glow all its own. The palms along Rodeo Drive are wrapped in light, the hotel lobbies smell of pine and cocoa, and you can Read the story Travel Guides · October 12, 2026 · 7 min read Where to Stay for Christmas 2026 in Malibu At Stay Awhile, Christmas is one of the first weeks our Malibu calendar fills, and it is easy to see why. December on this coast is mild, bright and quiet. Read the story Travel Guides · October 12, 2026 · 8 min read Things to Do in Los Angeles for Christmas 2026 December in Los Angeles has its own kind of magic. Palm trees wear strings of white lights, the air smells of jasmine and woodsmoke after sunset, and you can skate Read the story Travel Guides · October 3, 2026 · 10 min read Best Things to Do in Topanga Canyon There is a specific quality to the light in Topanga Canyon in the first hour of the morning. Fog lifts off the ridgelines, the oaks along Topanga Canyon Boulevard hold Read the story Travel Guides · September 25, 2026 · 9 min read Our Top Four Villas for Large Group Vacation Rentals in Los Angeles Los Angeles is one of the few cities where ten or eleven people can share a single private villa, cook together in a chef's kitchen, float in a private pool Read the story Travel Guides · September 18, 2026 · 6 min read Where to Stay in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving 2026 Stay Awhile Villas keeps a handpicked portfolio of private homes across Malibu, Beverly Hills, and the Hollywood Hills, and of every week in the year, Thanksgiving is the one our Read the story Travel Guides · September 10, 2026 · 9 min read Things to Do in the Hollywood Hills Without Leaving the Hills There is a specific quality to the light in the Hollywood Hills in the last hour before the sun drops behind the ridgeline. The letters on Mount Lee go warm Read the story

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