My girlfriend and I booked three nights at The Standard Downtown hotel during our vacation to LA on last Thanksgiving holidays. We picked this hotel because we knew it as a trendy place to stay in LA with one of the hottest bar in town, right the kind of place you may want to stay at when visiting LA. It took us one hour after checking in to take the decision we would move to a different hotel the very next morning. It does not take much to explain the reason of our decision: the hotel may have been trendy but was providing us with quite an uncomfortable accomodation.
The room was minimalist, we knew that, with no frills, essential furniture and amenities, and that was not a big issue indeed. What drove our decision was the bathroom. The bathroom had no bathtub where we could have a bath and relax and it had a huge open window overlooking right the bedroom preventing having any minimum privacy when using it.
The other major attraction of this hotel was the rooftop bar. Very nice indeed, but do not expect to have special treatment just because you are guest of the hotel. We had to queu and check in just like all other patrons coming from outside. It would not have changed much if we had stayed at a different hotel and come by at night.
To sum up, we were looking at The Standard Downtown hotel as a trendy place to stay in LA but we found out that it did not meet the minimum level of comfort we were looking for and eventually we decided to leave.
In closure, we actually do not disrecommend this hotel but we definetely recommend other travellers considering this option to be fully aware of what they are buying - a trendy but quite uncomfortable accomodation - to avoid being disappointed from the choice.
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