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Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village
Westlake Village, California, United States · Four Seasons · High Luxury
Twenty acres of the former Dole Food Company campus now hold the only Four Seasons paired with a full medical wellness center. Physicians, nutritionists and longevity specialists staff the California Center for Health & Wellbeing in the Santa Monica Mountain foothills between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, and the hotel holds AAA Five Diamond, with 270 rooms in the valley below.
- 270 rooms
- Opened 2006
- Rooms from 425 sq ft (39 m²)
- Architect: Arnold C. Savrann, AIA, in association with Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo
- Interiors: Bamo & EDG
About Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village
- Twenty acres of the former Dole Food Company campus now hold the hotel, in the Santa Monica Mountain foothills between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
- It is the only Four Seasons paired with a full medical wellness center, the California Center for Health & Wellbeing.
- Physicians, nutritionists and longevity specialists staff the center.
- Entry-level rooms start at 425 sq ft (39 m²).
History
The land beneath Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village carries a pedigree stretching back to the early nineteenth century. The rolling foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains here were encompassed within El Rancho de Triunfo, one of California's original Mexican land grants, awarded in 1802. For generations the acreage passed through ranching and agricultural use before eventually becoming part of the sprawling campus of Dole Food Company, whose worldwide headquarters rose nearby along Highway 101. The hotel itself is a product of a more deliberate vision.
Dole chairman David H. Murdock, a lifelong advocate of nutrition and longevity, conceived of a multi-building wellness complex on a twenty-acre parcel across from Dole's headquarters. In 2005 his affiliate, Westlake Wellbeing Properties, announced a letter of intent with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts to manage the 270-room property, pairing it with an on-site medical wellness center staffed by physicians, nutritionists, and fitness specialists. The hotel opened in 2006, and that combination — a full Four Seasons operation co-located with what became the California Health and Longevity Institute — proved genuinely novel. Nothing quite like it existed elsewhere in the Four Seasons portfolio at the time: guests could book a room and, down the corridor, consult a doctor, receive integrative health screenings, work with a personal nutritionist, or simply surrender to the spa's extensive menu.
The setting reinforced the philosophy. Set against the backdrop of the Santa Monica Mountain foothills, the property's twenty acres of manicured gardens and reflecting pools create a deliberate remove from Los Angeles sprawl, even though the city is barely forty minutes away. Over the years the hotel has earned consistent AAA recognition and Forbes Travel Guide distinction, cementing its reputation as Southern California's most medically serious luxury retreat — the rare resort where wellness is not a marketing word but an actual on-site clinical program.
The setting
Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village occupies a secluded campus at 2 Dole Drive in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, on land that formed part of El Rancho de Triunfo — one of California's original Spanish colonial land grants — and later farmed by the Dole Food Company before becoming this planned residential community. Thirty miles northwest of central Los Angeles, the setting trades urban density for curative retreat: mountain hiking and equestrian trails surround the property, and the Malibu coast is a scenic canyon drive away. The hotel functions as a genuine distance escape for the city's executive and wellness clientele, offering terrain that Los Angeles's denser westside enclaves simply cannot provide.
Restaurants and bars
- Coin & Candor — Restaurant · California brasserie
- The Cove — Poolside · Mediterranean
- ONYX Restaurant — Restaurant · Modern Japanese and sushi
- Stir — Café · Coffee, pastries, salads, sandwiches and juices
- Prosperous Penny — Bar · Artisanal cocktails and small bites
Experiences
- Center for Health & Wellbeing — Accredited health experts cover nutrition, fitness, medical data, spa and healing therapies, and life balance, with a physician consortium via CURE Medical.
- Wellness Kitchen — Classroom-style interactive culinary classes and demonstrations, or one-on-one private consultations.
- Nutrition Experiences — Nutrition consultations, a metabolism assessment duo, a grocery store tour, and a Wellness Kitchen demo and dine.
- Life Balance Experiences — Relationship and family therapy, guided meditation, sound bath healing, stress reduction, and equine meditation.
- Fitness Experiences — Personal training, guided hikes, body composition analysis, outdoor road cycling, and posture assessments.
- Spa Experiences — Massage, mind and body, and facial treatments in the largest spa within the Four Seasons brand.
Amenities
- 40,000 sq ft full-service spa
- California Health & Longevity Institute on-property (physician-led wellness programs)
- Three heated pools including an adults-only lap pool
- Four lighted tennis courts and a pickleball program
- Movie theater with daily screenings
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Water sports
- Pet-friendly
- Kids club
Awards
- AAA Five Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Recommended (2026)
- AAA Four Diamond (2025)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2020)
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