I am currently suffering here at this property due to a convention I am attending and without paying highway robbery prices to switch hotels (they are all packed) I will have to stay for another 4 nights.
This Marriott looks like something out of the 60's and while centrally located in downtown LA there is not much more I can say about choosing this hotel unless the only other option is the soup kitchen down the street.
Pros:
Location and very friendly staff. Great attitude and I feel for them working in such a run down hotel. This hotel is going through rennovation and the rooms are in desperate need that is for sure. Maybe check back in a year. Food was decent in the cafe downstairs in the lobby. Flat screens in the rooms. Jr suite good size room with separate living room. The pool area is nice but small. The freeway is behind the pool area and there is some constant noise but that is to be expected.
Cons:
The lobby smells of cheap soap. Not sure what is going on here but it smells like bathroom soap and very strong. The lobby has been refurbished so it looks pretty decent. Free internet which is nice in the lobby.
Rooms are frankly horrible. looks like some grandmother's self furnished retirement home quarters. Right out of the 60's with green pink carpet and beat up furniture. We are in a Jr Suite which is a good size but the furniture is so uncomfortable that you really do not want to use it for any length of time.
The beds are miserable just miserable and I put that fact down to our room has not been refurbished. (God i hope so because if our room was redone...then yikes) Everytime my spose or I moved while sleeping the mattress moved with us. I felt like I was on a ship which was rocking and rolling all night. The quality of the mattress is one of the worst I have ever experienced. I don't expect much sleep over the next four days. Room is dark and depressing.
The club room is a nice place to work on your computer and the food is decent however they have three flat screens in the room and this morning (Sunday) at 6:45am) all three TV's were blasting away and so loud we chose instead to go downstairs to pay for our breakfast than eat in the cub room. Who is watching sports at 6:45am on a Sunday morning?
I would not recommend staying here until they have finished their remodeling job. If one cannot sleep then the hotel has not real value especially when traveing on business. Too many other good hotels in the same area including the JW Marriott which is very nice.
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