Hours before Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez made their big debut at the Vanity Fair Oscars party Sunday, they were holed up in a luxury resort enjoying a romantic mini-vacation. According to multiple reports, the young couple spent Saturday night in a penthouse suite at the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif. The fancy retreat served as an early birthday getaway for Bieber, who turned 17 on Tuesday. The teen heartthrob and Gomez, 18, reportedly had dinner at the hotel’s Stonehill Tavern restaurant and spent time on the beach.
They were “affectionate, cuddling and holding hands,” a source told UsMagazine.com.
A source revealed to HollywoodLife.com that the stars “didn’t have bodyguards or parents with them.”
“But there was an emergency contact list at the front desk with numbers for a bodyguard and some of their people’s info if they needed it in any way,” the insider said.
The couple were videotaped Sunday outside the hotel, where a pack of young girls persuaded Bieber to take a picture with him before he and Gomez took off in an SUV. The two reappeared that night at the Sunset Tower Hotel for the Vanity Fair party, where they posed on the red carpet in color-coordinated outfits.
Inside the bash, they made use of a photo booth and were photographed admiring their six pictures, which showed the lovebirds cuddling.
When they finally decided to call it a night, paparazzi for PopCandies TV caught Bieber giving Gomez a quick kiss on the lips as they waited for a car. Bieber, an avid tweeter, hasn’t explicitly mentioned his romance with Gomez on Twitter, but he did retweet a picture of them at the party. He also shared with fans his one birthday request: a $17 donation to Charity: Water.
“This year, I want to give my birthday away to help @charitywater,” he wrote. At press time, Beliebers had donated more than $29,000, far surpassing the $17,000 goal.
