{"id":1048640,"date":"2026-09-07T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048640\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:21:12","slug":"cat-cafes-lounges-in-greater-los-angeles-where-you-can-cuddle-kitties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048640\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat cafes, lounges in Greater Los Angeles where you can cuddle kitties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This spot, just a short stroll from the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/lbma.org\/visit\/lbma-downtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown<\/a>, doesn\u2019t bother trying to graft cafe culture onto the cat-visiting experience, choosing instead to double-down on a whimsical cat motif that includes kitty murals and paw prints splashed across interior and exterior walls. (If you  need a caffeine fix, there is a Starbucks a few blocks away.) The central element inside the space is a wooden tree-like structure where you\u2019ll find many of the 50-plus cats provided by rescue partner <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeachfelines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach Felines<\/a> lounging or climbing, while others roam about, pouncing on toys, wiggling through fabric tunnels or prancing on a cat exercise wheel the size of a truck tire.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 25 people can kick it with the kitties at any one time, and the 50-minute sessions can be booked online. Other offerings include: Cats &amp; Mats yoga (offered one Friday evening a month), Crochet With Cats (one Sunday afternoon a month) and cat-accompanied sound baths. (An employee I chatted with said the crochet class, with its preponderance of dangling yarn, is particularly popular with the cats.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Price:<\/b> $19.99 for 50-minute sessions, which start at the top of the hour<\/p>\n<p><b>Hours: <\/b>Monday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (reservations end 1 hour before closing)<\/p>\n<p><b>Pro tip:<\/b> A shorter and less expensive option \u2014 $10 for 20 minutes \u2014 is available on a walk-in basis only at the top of the hour, depending on capacity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This spot, just a short stroll from the Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown, doesn\u2019t bother trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1048641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,123303,419942,419939,71316,6290,419941,141956,6276,2961,224,5337,91167,127920,6566,62495,1243,419940,313955],"class_list":["post-1048640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cat-cafe","tag-cat-themed-art-show","tag-crochet-lesson","tag-decade","tag-door","tag-greater-los-angeles","tag-kitty","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-lounge","tag-matcha","tag-place","tag-shoe","tag-spot","tag-such-thing","tag-well-time"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117229262505416083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}