Fantastic location, clean, tidy, cable tv, frdige, free parking & the best diner next door! What more can you desire for $100 in la? The Beverly Laurel is a good value hotel which ticks all the right boxes.

Ok, so the building is a little old, and the room was a little cold (especially in the recent storms!) but we found the hotel extremely good value. We turned up with a view to moving to the Standard or a more upmarket hotel but we just couldn't bring ourselves to leave. We ended up staying for 7 nights.

Great location for the Grove or Beverly malls and convenient for Hollywood/Sunset. Also, the Swingers diner rocked - breakfast for under $4 b4 11, friendly servers.

We also stayed at the Le Montrose Suite (which with parking was $170) but prefered this hands down! We kept the difference and went shopping!

I stayed at the Beverly Laurel for two nights in August 2004. I was quite satisfied with my experience. It was clean and charming, a cut above the standard motel decor. I did not notice any smell or other unpleasant odors - and I consider myself quite discerning and something of a "Felix Unger." Great location and I would stay there again, absolutely.

Stayed here 2 nights last week had a great time, rooms were clean and comfortable, manager friendly - looked after our bags after we checked out for a whole day.Diner on the premises "Swingers" is the best cheap place we went to on our whole US holiday including New York and the waitresses ROCK! Don't take any notice of negative comments this place is CHEAP great location, clean as a whistle and COOL.

I chose this hotel because of all the positive reviews I read on internet and on "Lonely Planet". But I was sooo disappointed :

1. First there was indeed a smell. You know the same smell when you walk into a store selling vintage clothes. It's difficult to live in it. The smell was on the beds, on the towels, everywhere.
2. OK, the rate was $90 a night, but quality only worth $40. The wooden drawers were dirty and old. There were cracks here and there filled with dust and dirt. Towel racks were old with dots of paint, looked like they were covered with dirt. I had to use the towels on it and it gross me out.
3. Dirty dirty dirty. I'm serious, there was blood stain on pillow case, and the pillow itself was yellowish!

We stayed for a night and we quickly moved out. We ended up at the "Days Inn" at Glendale which cost me only $75 per night, and believe me, Days Inn was way way better!!! I don't know, if you are always "on the road", always prepared to sleep at train stations, OK with not taking shower in days, then I think Laurel Hotel is good for you. But if you are a "normal" person who likes cleanliness, then don't ever think of going in there because it is not in hotel standard (not even motel standard compared to DAys Inn).