Sofitel LA embraces a rainbow of guests with three SO PRIDE package options for Los Angeles Pride 2007. The premium offerings coincide with the annual commemoration of a gay liberation movement started in New York in June 1969. The festival and parade celebrate love, equality and pride.

From June 8-10, Sofitel LA hosts special VIP privileges allowing for guests to socialize with the crème-de-la-crème of festival attendees with invitation-only admittance to private parties and celebrity access. Guests can choose from the following packages:

Sofitel LA's VIP Pride one-night package starts at $455 (exclusive of taxes) for the evening of Friday, June 8 (additional room nights are available from June 6-10, starting at $389 with breakfast and parking; $269 room only) and includes:

• All-weekend VIP festival admission
• Grand Stand seating on Santa Monica Boulevard for the Sunday morning parade
• Exclusive access to Sofitel LA's pool party on Friday, June 8 with headlining performers and honored celebrities
• Invitation to the Mayor's Reception in West Hollywood
• Accommodations in a SO Fab Superior Room
• Breakfast for two
• Complimentary parking
• SO Fit access (2,500-square-foot fitness center)

Sofitel LA's Pride Breakfast Parking one-night package starts at $389 (exclusive of taxes; additional room nights are available from June 6-10, exclusive of breakfast and parking, starting at $269) and includes:

• All-weekend VIP festival admission
• Grand Stand seating on Santa Monica Boulevard for the Sunday morning parade
• Invitation to the Mayor's Reception in West Hollywood
• Accommodations in a SO Fab Superior Room
• Breakfast for two
• Complimentary parking
• SO Fit access (2,500-square-foot fitness center)

Sofitel LA's Pride Choice one-night package starts at $269 (exclusive of taxes) from June 6-10.

• Accommodations in a SO Fab Superior Room
• SO Fit access (2,500-square-foot fitness center)

Sofitel Los Angeles boasts 295 newly renovated guest rooms, many with views of the legendary Hollywood sign. The hotel, located across from the Beverly Center in the West Hollywood district, offers easy access to Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica, the beaches, and a wide variety of the city's renowned destinations. Guests can also enjoy modern American cuisine and LA's famous nightlife on the premises with SIMON LA, celebrity chef Kerry Simon's first Los Angeles location, and STONE ROSE Lounge, the newest Hollywood hotspot from Rande Gerber. The hotel is also home to a full service, luxury spa - LeSpa at Sofitel - a first by Sofitel in the United States.

Sofitel Los Angeles also offers one of the city's largest hotel fitness centers - SO Fit. The hotel, which enjoyed a complete $40 million renovation in 2006, also features 10,000 square feet of meeting space with catering by SIMON LA, an outdoor heated swimming pool, high-speed and Wi-Fi Internet, 24-hour SIMON LA room service and more. Sofitel LA offers Commitment Ceremony packages with catering provided by Simon LA. For reservations or more information on Commitment Ceremony and SO Pride packages, visit www.sofitel.com, www.sofitella.com or call 800-SOFITEL (763-4835).

About Sofitel North America
Created in France in 1964, Sofitel is the prestige brand of Accor hotels with 200 upscale hotels in 53 countries, including 10 in North America. Sofitel hotels are ideally placed in business and leisure locations across North America, including Chicago Downtown, Chicago O'Hare, Minneapolis, Miami, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

Sofitel: 200 premium hotels around the world
Because no one country or city is the same, Sofitel has made each of its 200 hotels around the world a truly unique establishment. Combining the spirit of each place with the values of modernity, refinement and absolute comfort, they are all imbued in their inimitable way with the French "art de vivre."

Whether their setting is a great business metropolis like Paris, New York or Tokyo, or nestling in the landscape in Indonesia, Polynesia or Brazil, each Sofitel hotel offers travelers a genuine haven of peace. So that each guest, for an overnight stay or longer, during a business trip or for a holiday, can enjoy the rich variety of these unique places in comfort and tranquility.