Wedding Blog

Whenever our family or friends come to visit Los Angeles, we heartily recommend the Magic Castle Hotel in Hollywood. They have the BEST customer service out there - our favorite element of which is the FREE, unlimited snack/beverage/DVD rental service they offer. Normally a diet coke is upwards of $2 at a hotel! Plus, in the summer, they bring popsicles out to the pool every hour - soooo nice. And, it’s affordable! So, when we needed to book a block of rooms for our wedding, naturally this was our first (and only) choice!

The location can’t be beat. It’s one block from the Walk of Fame and Mann’s Chinese Theatre (and Beard Papa, yo), right in the center of Hollywood. There’s a Metro stop right there for the intrepid adventurer who seeks a visit downtown or to North Hollywood but doesn’t want to drive (and really, what out-of-towner does?). It’s only a few blocks from our ceremony, and less than 2 miles from our reception - here’s to proximity!

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Especially exciting is that as a guest of the Hotel, you can access the exclusive, members-only Magic Castle Club. Here, some of the greatest magicians and prop comics perform nightly, in different parlors of this spookily awesome old-school castle/house. My favorite attraction there is Irma, the invisible piano player who takes requests!

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Hee hee, I love how the ‘Magic’ part of our Magic Carpet Ride theme is being carried through, with the Magic Castle hotel. Totally coincidental, I assure you. But fun, right?

With roughly half our invite list being out-of-towners, it was very hard to determine how many rooms of each type we’d need to reserve. Lucky for us, there’s no deposit required, so we just got as many as we *might* need, and can add or take away rooms as we start getting RSVPs. The manager was really patient with all my questions, and now the deal is sealed!

That’s a huge checkmark off our list! Are you in love with your hotel?