Stay in Hollywood or Beverly Hills?

[michelle1]

I am travelling alone with my 15yo daughter so would like to stay in an area that is safe to walk around and has some restaurants nearby.

 

[StageTek]

Like any big city both can be safe and not so safe. Neither is safer
than the other. The good news is neither is a dangerous place. As
in any big city it's not advisable to be walking around late at night.

Both cities have a lot of restaurants and shops yet both are quite
different. BH is very upscale - high end stores and restaurants and
hotels. Very nice, very chic, some "attitude", but exciting. Hollywood
is geared to tourists but in the past 6/7 years has boomed with the
locals. Cool coffee places, hip shops and restaurants mostly because
of the Musicians Institute (MI) just off the boulevard - lots of
twentysomethings with guitars. The shops are mostly of the souvenir
type but there are also a lot of the more familiar stores, too.

 

[GAN]

A couple years ago we stayed in Beverly Hills, I used priceline (5-star) and got The BH Hilton for $115(which included free limo service, by the way!), ate at Trader Vics. It was very safe, checked out Rodeo Drive. Although we did cab it to Hollywood.