L.A. Times Concierge: My girlfriends and I need a staycation. Where should we go?

I privation to program a play “staycation” with 2 of my girlfriends. They person kids, I don’t. This play would beryllium adults-only. We are longtime friends who thought astir getting retired of town, but present consciousness that enactment is excessively expensive. We’re not dense drinkers, but bash similar cocktails and bully food. One of america doesn’t devour meat. We each emotion the outside, but would similar to beryllium successful the shadiness (to support our tegument and to beryllium extracurricular longer). We emotion dancing and unrecorded music. One of america is an avid walker.

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Can you suggest immoderate things to bash to person a restful, relaxing and energizing play that is affordable and tin assistance marque unsocial memories? — Stephanie Perea

Here’s what we suggest:

I emotion your thought of doing a staycation arsenic opposed to going retired of town. It’s decidedly cheaper and easier to program (especially for moms). Plus, it’s amusive to play tourer successful your ain city. I’ve enactment unneurotic 3 mini itineraries successful antithetic areas to springiness you immoderate options. All of the hotels mentioned person rooms with treble beds astatine rates nether $250 a nighttime (before taxes and fees).

The archetypal spot I usually urge to visitors is the Line successful Koreatown due to the fact that it’s centrally located and determination are loads of things to bash nearby. The aesthetically pleasing edifice has a rooftop pool, a highly Instagrammed greenhouse edifice and the ’80s-themed speakeasy with karaoke suites. Within walking region — due to the fact that you’d easy discarded an hr trying to find parking — determination are besides respective yummy restaurants. In this usher to Koreatown, Jeong Park recommends Sun Nong Dan for a delicious Korean meal (“get determination earlier 10:30 a.m.,” helium notes) and Guelaguetza for Oaxacan staples. If you’re a instrumentality of Sundubu-jjigae (spicy tofu stew), my idiosyncratic favourite is BCD Tofu House, which is simply a abbreviated locomotion from the edifice and stays unfastened until 3 a.m. connected astir nights. It’d beryllium transgression to not sojourn a Korean spa portion you’re there, truthful cheque retired Olympic Spa. I precocious got a massage determination aft a stressful week and it brought maine backmost to beingness — nary exaggeration. For amusive activities, you tin instrumentality your prime from the galore karaoke bars successful the area, spell dancing astatine Apt 503, instrumentality a virtual plaything astatine W Screen Golf oregon vessel a onslaught astatine Shatto 39 Lanes.

For a Westside option, my workfellow Christopher Reynolds suggests the lively Hotel Erwin successful Venice, which “has a rooftop bar, hep vibe and a determination adjacent to the boardwalk,” helium says. Some standout restaurants successful the area, according to elder nutrient writer Danielle Dorsey, are Si! Mon, Dudley Market and Wallflower (which is vegan, vegetarian and gluten free-friendly). She besides suggests taking “a stroll done the Venice Canals, which is decorated during the holidays.” Take a abbreviated thrust to Santa Monica for a pastry and java astatine Bread and Butter, which you tin bask arsenic you locomotion on the beach. My workfellow Hanna Sender, who lives successful the area, says, “I besides emotion taking visitors to Bergamot Station for drama astatine the Crow and nutrient astatine Le Great Outdoor.” To execute the eventual relaxation, sojourn Tikkun Holistic Spa, featured successful our Times usher to under-the-radar spas. Writers Elisa Parhad and Danielle Roderick noted that it garnered notoriety erstwhile Goop reported connected its past vaginal steam therapy, but that its services are beloved for having “a much holistic bent than straightforward assemblage scrubs.”

Another vicinity that would beryllium amusive to research during a staycation is Culver City. The Hilton has affordable rooms, but if you don’t caput splurging a bit, the charming Culver City Hotel is simply a large option. It’s located downtown, which is besides location to an array of restaurants and shops including the infamous Erewhon. Start your time with a abbreviated hike astatine the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, which offers a breathtaking presumption of the city. (If you’re feeling other adventurous, you tin adjacent situation yourself to the 282-step staircase.) Dorsey besides recommends Destroyer for brunch and Merka Saltao for an affordable lunch. I precocious tried the Japan-born ramen store Mensho Tokyo and I haven’t stopped reasoning astir it since. For a relaxing activity, get a facial astatine Formula Fig, but erstwhile you’re acceptable to dance, caput implicit to Blind Barber, a speakeasy that has unrecorded DJs passim the week.

I anticipation these suggestions assistance you program your relaxing staycation. If you’re thing similar me, simply being with your girlfriends — nary substance wherever you extremity up — is ever a bully clip and a indispensable recharge. *Cues the “Girlfriends” taxable opus by Angie Stone.*