We stayed at this Holiday Inn Express from the 21st-26th March 2005, and it pretty much does what it says on the tin, a 'no frills' experience. It has good size rooms, is very clean and as other reviewers have already mentioned, has free parking. Luckily, we used a rental car with a GPS system, otherwise we would have got badly lost trying to find it (plan your journey!)
Breakfast is fine, cereals/toast/bagels etc. although we opted to take our breakfast up to our room as the small breakfast area got busy very quickly.
Getting to Universal - my wife and I are relatively fit, and managed to walk along the road and up a hill in 10-15 minutes to the Universal City Walk. Not the best of areas, but not as bad as some have painted, (I felt perfectly safe, although the carbon monoxide in my lungs is a different story) and you are spolit for choice with excellent restaurants in the City Walk.
To sum up, a good base for Universal, Burbank etc. Friendly staff, a bargain in many ways.
Finally, if anyone from the hotel reads this - could you sort out the smell in the lift? I would gladly come back if you did!
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