Good things:
The location was great, Macy´s Plaza, one block from metro station-7th, Ralph´s around the corner (buy breaky or lunch to go at a decent price) and get pharmacy stuff. The area seemed clean and harmless even at my very early arrival on saturday am. although my local friends freaked out at the downtown location being dangerous.
Walking distance to Staples Center and area, good location for concert stay.
Photographs seemed true to what I experienced.
Several coffee shops around the corner for a decent breaky including a famous one I can´t recall that had huge lines on a saturday morning and Denny´s were I ended up.
The price was at it´s lower end so in all a value.
The location is visited by a lot of young europeans probably because of the cool design. And a photograph shoot was happening the morning I checked out.
Problems:
My fault I left out my fashion jewelry and laptop.
A set of brand stainless steel rings were removed from my luggage (they are probably looking really good on whomever is wearing them!). After a long day of tours I found my laptop bottom screws were all unscrewed so that one of the covers fell off just before I checked out. Their problem was probably it was an older laptop and couldn´t get anything for spare parts or didn´t have enough time to dismantle it!
Be sure to placed high up since the lobby is used as a bar and events are held downstairs.
The staff seemed to be distract with visitors at the lobby, they were unhelpfull, and made themselves scarce.
When I confronted the clerk with my laptop situation she said: "The only people that have access to your room is the cleaning staff . " Duh! who else would like a set of rings for free?? She was surprised, unprepared to deal with the situation and clearly wanted me to just dissapear. Glad I did this on my way out! Because I would of had long faces during the rest of my stay.
The cleaning staff seemed just as discontent witht their job as the clerks at the desk.
Their was a musty smell from the rug that went away with the A/C.
I would stay there again storing everything under locks (ad of course taking a chance ) and extensive use of the security box even on a tight schedule, and would not expect service, just on the location alone if you need to move around on your own, it serves well.
I would be embarassed to recomend just on the belongings issue alone, what if a friend got their things meddled with like I was.
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