Stayed here for a very short stay before heading back home to Australia after a 3 week holiday in the U.S
We had originally spent our first 5 days of our holiday in West Hollywood and had decided to break the long flight home with a stop in Hermosa Beach.
The staff at HI were helpful and friendly, the rooms were clean and comfortable, as said by a previous review the rooms are dated but for us as long as they are clean and you can get a good nights sleep all is good.
The hotel offers a complimentary breakfast, my highlight was the pancake machine! I don't eat pancakes but had fun making them for my brother in law! Toast, cereals, fresh fruit, coffee, tea and juices are all available. The eating area is clean with a tv to catch up on the daily news.
We were 5 minutes from Redondo Beach Pier and had a lovely lunch there, we took a taxi that cost about $10. A trip to Venice beach was a bit more costly by taxi at just over $50, split between 4 of us wasn't so bad though and we were on holiday.
The airport was about 30 minutes away and cost about $30 from memory.
We found the Holiday Inn Express a good little stop for 24 hours.

Stayed here at the start of a 3 week tour around california(1st week of August).
Have a soft spot for the hermosa/redondo area so the location was perfect.
Service on checkin and throughout our stay was fine, generally friendly and courteous.
The rooms were great, maybe a little dated but clean large and comfortable for a family of 4.
very good breakfast, simple but very satisfying.

On a positive side note, after a week or so I had realized i had forgotten some items of clothing in the cupboard.We called the hotel up and dealt with someone I think called jesus but whoever it was helped me in locating the items and forwarding them to a hotel we were going to.Super brilliant, thank you.

The Holiday Inn Express was very nice! Clean with a terrific hot breakfast. The employees were exceptionally helpful. Loved the retro decor. Only con is the distance to the beach. I had a rental car, but found a cab for $5 to the beach was much easier than finding parking.
The address is Hermosa, but it is located next to the entrance to the Redondo Beach Pier. Great central location, right on PCH 1. The drive North to Malibu is very easy and well worth the time. Beautiful area

This Holiday Inn Express was a joy to stay at. It was very clean, spacious, appeared to have been updated in the last year or two, had a good breakfast with eggs, sausage, and awesome fresh baked cinnamon rolls, and had lots of parking (our group had two 15-passenger vans). It is close to restaurants, shopping, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, and LAX. It was centrally located from all the places we visited; Universal Studios, Disneyland, Hollywood, Huntington Beach, Santa Moncia, and Long Beach. It is also reasonably priced. The manager, Raven, was helpful in working with our group to make our stay enjoyable.