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.
Travel Guides
Travel Guides · August 29, 2026 · 7 min read
Your Guide to Shopping Rodeo Drive
Beverly Hills is one of the few places left where shopping is a proper occasion rather than an errand. Palm-lined avenues, cars idling at the curb, a doorman who knows
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Travel Guides · August 21, 2026 · 7 min read
The Beverly Hills Anniversary Weekend Guide
Some weekends are about a place. This one is about the two of you, and the place is only there to hold it. An anniversary is not really a vacation.
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Travel Guides · August 13, 2026 · 9 min read
Where Malibu Watches the Sun Go Down
There is a specific quality to the light in Malibu in the last hour before the sun reaches the Pacific. The sea stacks along the coast turn to shadow, the
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Travel Guides · August 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Best Time to Visit Beverly Hills, Season After Season
Beverly Hills changes character with the season. The same three blocks of Rodeo Drive belong to an entirely different story in February than they do in July: the gardens bloom
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Travel Guides · August 1, 2026 · 7 min read
How to Spend Labor Day Weekend in Los Angeles
Every Labor Day, the lists arrive on schedule, and they say what they always say. Bermuda for the pink sand, Charleston for the porches, Las Vegas for the noise, Los
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Travel Guides · July 23, 2026 · 5 min read
A Santa Ynez Weekend Getaway from Los Angeles
Most people picture Los Angeles weekend trips as a straight shot up the coast: Malibu, Santa Barbara, the usual PCH rhythm. Two and a half hours inland, past the last
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Travel Guides · July 17, 2026 · 11 min read
Finding the Best Time to Visit Malibu, Season by Season
Malibu is a single ribbon of coast that changes character with the season. Twenty-one miles of shoreline sit between the Pacific and the Santa Monica Mountains, and the same stretch
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Travel Guides · July 9, 2026 · 9 min read
The Best Wineries in Malibu Wine Country
Most visitors think they know Malibu: the beach, the highway, the real estate. Far fewer know it is also wine country, and it has been for nearly two centuries. Tucked
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Travel Guides · July 2, 2026 · 8 min read
A Museum Weekend in Los Angeles
Los Angeles holds one of the deepest, strangest, most internationally minded museum landscapes in the country, spread across a basin large enough that most first-time visitors only ever see a
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Travel Guides · June 26, 2026 · 8 min read
A Bachelorette Weekend in Beverly Hills
Some trips are about the destination. This one is about the moment. The weekend before you marry is not a vacation so much as a declaration, a last long breath
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- 01 Your Guide to Shopping Rodeo Drive
- 02 The Beverly Hills Anniversary Weekend Guide
- 03 Where Malibu Watches the Sun Go Down
- 04 Best Time to Visit Beverly Hills, Season After Season
- 05 How to Spend Labor Day Weekend in Los Angeles
- 06 A Santa Ynez Weekend Getaway from Los Angeles
- 07 Finding the Best Time to Visit Malibu, Season by Season
- 08 The Best Wineries in Malibu Wine Country
- 09 A Museum Weekend in Los Angeles
- 10 A Bachelorette Weekend in Beverly Hills
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