Found it very hard to get quality, affordable accomodation in LA. Location wasn't great, but was handy to food/shops and a (longish) walk from down town and public transport. Hotel was clean, staff were fine, bed very comfortable and spa a nice surprise.

What do you say about a hotel whose area dining options are a Subway restaurant and a Mc Donald's that isn't even open after 1 am? The area is teeming with check cashing places, used car lots, hourly rate hotels, and "adult" entertainment stores plus lots of Korean marquee shops that seem to be shuttered after dark. The friendly taxi driver even asked me if I really wanted to stay there & told me not to explore the neighbourhood after dark... I am starting to think my company's travel agent really has a sick sense of humour booking me here.

First impressions of the hotel: the desk clerk is busy arranging the cash drawer which has about $50 in singles for 10 minutes before checking me in at 1 am in the morning (thanks to LAX making my plane loop the airport for an hour). Two dudes that could only be politely described as ripe smelling, low rent pimps were checking in after me causing the desk clerk to quicken his pace luckily. Finally after getting my room keys for my third floor room, I take the elevator up only to be greeted with that unmistakable aroma of "bug bomb" in the hallway.

My room description. After inspecting the closet in which I had to put the closet doors back in their tracks, I notice two rather large horse flies that have infiltrated my room through the air-con vents. I handily kill them with the phone book on the desk (did I mention that the prominent ad on the cover was for bail bonds?). I leave a light on after seeing other reports on line of roaches at this "hotel". The sink situated outside of the bathroom proper is clean. The bathroom proper consists of a clean toilet, stocked toiletries, and a tub with shower so small and narrow that they had to install one of those curved shower curtains in order to preserve the illusion of a "normal" size tub basin.

The beds are spartan hard, the bedding looks like it has seen some high mileage and its better days are far behind them. The TV gets only about 10 channels. The microwave and refrigerator I do not dare use because only God knows what they were used for by the last occupant. The furniture has the light wear of Sanford & Son merchandise.The "free wireless internet" does not even need a hotel provided password, so actually burning the furniture and sending smoke signals to the outside world would be a faster way to communicate as probably half the neighbourhood is probably using this "hotel's" wi-fi as judged by its one bar signal strength and burning fast 30 Kb/s connect rate. Avoid this hotel at all costs. For what this room cost my company, I could have stayed at a much better hotel in a safer area.

We stayed at this hotel with much reluctance due to the reviews on this site. However I was pleasantly surprised after our first night. Hotel was reciently renovated and looks great once inside. Staff speaks many languages and was very helpful with directions to resturants, ect.

PROS: Clean, quiet, inexpensive, Private secure gated parking with security guards.

CONS: Small parking garage(private lot owned by hotel across the street), small bathroom, bed is not so comfertable, dresser looked a little old, not too many channels on TV, and NO free breakfast!

All in all, great bang for your buck!

Dreadful doesn't do it justice. Awful. Landed in LA for a stop over at the airport before commencing our tour of the Western US. Hotel is very close to 'adult' shops and the only dining in the location is Subway and MacDonalds. We arrived early evening and the reception staff were young and stood gossiping ingnoring us on arrival. No concierge's on site that I could see, lift was dismal, unclean. We were several floors up and when we arrived at our floor the doors opened to reveal trays on the floor in the corridors with half eaten dinners that had not been collected. I can only assume that due to the poor facilities most people used room service. There were trays piled on the litter bins. The room doors resembled prison doors, stark grey with peep holes. The decor was peeling, fraying, tired and dreadful. Our first night in the USA and I wanted to cry and leave. Appalling service, decor and facilities I would definately not stay again - Zero out of 10, the worst hotel I have ever stayed in.