Princess of Bel-Air ; Tess Daly Luxuriates at the Famous La Hotel Where Everyone Is Treated Like Royalty... And Breakfast Costs a Hundred Bucks

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MAKING it in Hollywood is hard, it is said. Well, getting there can have its fair share of problems, too. For example-never, if you can help it, take a wilful, widdlesome toddler on the 11-hour flight to California. Otherwise, oh boy, do you need a holiday by the time you get there.

Even getting in isn't easy. On arrival at immigration we are fingerprinted and mug-shot before finally being freed to wing our way by cab up La Cienega Boulevard towards Hollywood. En route we roll past the numerous shiny glass shop fronts selling everything from fat-burgers to bikini waxes, dwarfed by the 100ft-high billboards screaming for business. It's a sell, sell, sell assault on the jetlagged senses that never lets up.

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Princess of Bel-Air ; Tess Daly Luxuriates at the Famous La Hotel Where Everyone Is Treated Like Royalty... And Breakfast Costs a Hundred Bucks

Almost with relief we reach sedate Beverly Hills. You know you've arrived when suddenly, almost without warning, everything is way more upscale the ultra-green lawns are neatly manicured and all the houses are mansions, each groomed and ready for its close-up. Beverly Hills oozes money and it's not ashamed to show it.

Finally, we arrive at the Hotel Bel-Air hotel of choice for assorted Hollywood stars and world dignitaries. Liz Taylor had one of her many weddings here; Sop...

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