I hated this hotel. The bed is on a carpeted platform, the closet is a curtain partition, there is nowhere to sit except the bed and a molded plastic chair, no where to open up your suitcase except your bed, the floor, or a long skinny plastic "desk". The room is all white with some gray and a few yellow accents - trying to be modern, but achieving dreary (especially with the pilled, shabby looking blanket on the bed). The bathroom has a WC with a flickering fluorescent light, it's all cold white tile - again with very little comfortable space to put out your toiletries. Not to mention the giant floor to ceiling glass window separating my shower stall from my bed. Not necessarily a problem if you are alone--a serious issue if room service comes while someone is in the shower. Overall the room and hallways felt dirty and lonely to me.
We went up to the roof for a drink and a snack around 6pm and were stopped by a bouncer with very serious attitude. Apparently this is quite a hotspot for the in crowd of LA. That's lovely, but he made us feel extremely unwelcome as paying guests of the hotel. The cocktails were fine, the food was terrible.
I will say that the staff at the hotel were quite nice overall (excepting said bouncer). When I ordered room service the waiter asked me how my stay was, I said "I'm not hip enough to stay here" and he replied with "well, you can chalk it up to an experience"--indeed, and one I never hope to repeat.
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