Returning from a restful summer vacation, you might hear: “You look refreshed.” But coming home from a “plastation” — a plastic surgery holiday stay in a luxe hotel — is more likely to elicit: “You look like a whole new you!” With Los Angeles the undisputed American capital of surgical makeovers, many of the city’s plushest hotels provide a semi-cushy few days to recover from any kind of radical lift: face, breast, butt, eye, forehead, neck, brow — in not just style but privacy and, best of all, comfort. There’s nothing like an invasive hours-long aesthetic procedure with anesthesia to justify intensive pampering. Jell-O, or a rich smoothie if you prefer, are just a bell ring away.
The Four Seasons, Peninsula, the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Fairmont Century City, the SLS and the Luxe in Brentwood/Bel-Air are among the L.A. hotels offering facilities and 24/7 nursing specifically for cosmetic surgery aftercare. These special rooms or suites are booked long in advance, either through a doctor’s pro team or through dedicated recovery concierge services like Calicia Care.
Dr. Daniel Gould, both an M.D. and a Ph.D. specializing in mommy makeovers, relies on two aftercare facilities, Immortelle at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills on Doheny Drive and Luxe Serenity on Sunset Boulevard. Both devote an area to post-op care, with nutritionists on staff, organic food, and all the advanced healing therapies. “Aftercare is only as good as the nurses,” Gould says. “I get excellent feedback from my patients on these two. I would trust both to take care of my own family members.”
