My family stayed here for three nights last week and we were happy with what we got for the price. We knew going into it that it would be a no frills motel that would serve as a place to sleep after long days of sight-seeing and a place for a nice hot shower. It is definitely nothing fancy and what we termed "bare bones" - a term that my 7 year old learned on the trip. But it was fine for us and our needs. We wanted to spend our money elsewhere. The location was good - it was a 1/2 block from a Metro stop so that was a plus. And it was an easy drive to Griffith Park - which is literally down the street and up the hill. We were not bothered by the sounds from the hospital across the street. The area isn't the greatest and I wouldn't have walked around at night, but further down the road toward the park you could tell the area was getting a little nicer and had trendier restaurants. The continental breakfast was nothing fancy, but it offered two kinds of cereal, fresh fruit, toast, prepackaged muffins, coffee and juice. What impressed me was that there was a worker who's one and only job was refilling the breakfast items. My experience has been that everything is put out early and if you arrive later in the morning chances are you won't get anything. This wasn't the case, as the worker constantly restocked everything, even right up until the very end. We also enjoyed the free internet service available in the lobby. Granted only 10 minutes were free, but that's all we needed to check directions or print out tickets. We did have to pay $1.00 per print out, which I thought was a bit much. As for cons, our beds didn't have blankets on them when we arrived, even though it was after the check-in time and about 5:00 p.m. Housecleaning did come by with fresh blankets before I had a chance to call the desk, though, so that was nice. Otherwise the showers were hot, we enjoyed the fridge and the microwave available to us. The parking lot did get crowded at night, but that comes with staying over the weekend. One disappointment was that the pool was empty. It had been advertised I thought as a heated pool and we had been hoping to use it. But we got a great price on the room, had a free breakfast and it was in a good location so we couldn't complain. The front desk staff were also nice.
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