Hollywood Dream Suites

Had a good visit while I was here for New Years Day with my man. There are plenty of places to eat and night life close by. For the price and location it was worth every cent. But mainly I like to thank the staff for there outstanding hospitality. I felt very safe and comfortable here. I want to give a special thanks to Leo and Saul for going out of there way to help me when my car wouldnt start the next morning. Cool hotel and I would stay here again.

Stayed here for a few nights. They have this closet converted into a bed. Then Graham a lady who owns it or works there has a problem remembering payments. So he careful make sure every money and payment you hand them comes with receipt. So they couldn’t tell you «they don’t recall»
Bathroom was clogged and was leaking as well.

Such a truly dreadful, seedy little dive. And it’s not just the filthiness and shabbiness that’s terrible – the staff are as well.
When I arrived to check in, the woman in the office ordered me to stand outside in the lobby until she summoned me in, as she was having a ridiculous and totally inane personal conversation with a friend of hers. After listening to them gossip non stop for twenty minutes, I went back into the office and very politely asked her if it would be possible for me to get my room key as I needed to use the restroom – and she SCREAMED at me to go back into the lobby until she told me otherwise… Then she just carried on chatting to her friend… Haha!
In hindsight, perhaps she was actually trying to do me a favor though and limit the amount of time I had to spend in the dirty squalid little hell hole of a hotel room I was eventually given (40 minutes later)
Oh, and before she finally decided that she had made me stand in the lobby for long enough and finally give me the treasured key to my filthy little hotel hovel kingdom, she lectured me for a good five minutes about how they don’t like people coming and going, so I better not have any guests turning up – basically, like I was some cheap hooker looking to turn tricks.
The walk to the room, up the shabby filthy carpeted stairs and along the peeling lino clad corridors was eye opening to say the least, and lived up the establishment’s name, although in fairness, it was more nightmarish than dreamy – kind of like a real life hotel of horrors experience – I walked past one room that had the door open and it was literally packed floor to ceiling with total trash… A full on hoarders paradise.
With that said however, at least it fully prepares you for the horror that awaits you when you finally open the door to your squalid little hell hole hovel hotel room.
Let’s just say absolutely filthy and leave it at that.
I actually started itching after about ten minutes and I have several weird bites on my arms today… Presumably from some nasty little insects that inhabit the nasty little hell hole hovel hotel rooms.
Needless to say, there wasn’t a chance in hell I was going to sleep in that room (oh, which had no running hot water either, just to add to the overall shockingly awful experience)… So, I deposited my key in the drop box, managing to avoid another encounter with the angry little troll hell hole hovel hotel gatekeeper, and promptly got the hell out of dodge.

It’s amazing how prices for things can swing like a pendulum. I’m out on tour and a promoter books us hotels for similar prices 70 miles apart. The hotel we had the night before LA was quite decent. Then we checked in to the Hollywood Dream Suites! Just from viewing the front we could tell the place was beyond run down/​is this even legal to be open? It’s right across from the Paramount Pictures lot and opened as a boarding house for contract actors in 1927. Supposedly there has been a murder or two there over the nearly 90 years of its existence and it gave off bad vibes to all of us. But it was Labor Day weekend and hotels don’t grow on trees in LA on big weekends, so we said F it and stayed.
There’s no parking, only street. There is a garage several blocks away that closes at 12am and will charge you $ 14 to park. (not convenient for a band)
When you check in a very friendly lady at the front desk will talk your ear off about the history of the place, and famous people who have stayed there recently, and she might even call you ‘MacDaddy’ if you’re an artist… Ugh, just check us in… Don’t compound the disappointment!
The rooms were filthy… even by the standards of us, a punk rock band! We actually slept fully clothed on top of the beds with shirts over the pillows… The TV’s only worked in 1 of the 3 rooms we had, which seems to be typical looking at past reviews.
There are ‘residents’ in the building, mostly the old and dying. Several are hoarders that smoke and have tons of paper near their gas stoves in each room.
3 things we took away from staying here…1. Satisfaction that the place didn’t burn down and we died…2. Seeing equally pissed/​disturbed looks on other ‘guests’ faces as we loaded up the next morning…3. That we didn’t get bedbugs!
If a pictures worth a thousand words… Well take a look and decide if you EVER want to tackle staying here!

All I can say. …this place is not a stay over night motel/​hotel. When I checked in the host or check –in person was very friendly. When I asked for extra washcloths she stated «Let me see what is can do» had a choice of the Marilyn Monroe room or some roach infested room. I chose the Marilyn room where the stove worked but ac didn’t was afraid to take a shower due to to the bathroom wasn’t kept up. No trash can available in the room but the tv was nice nice and nice and the pics. I was located near a residential apartment so I watched was really no privacy. They had had a man with a Russian voice I guess he was the greeter. They were filming a movie didn’t know if was a porn or a series!.The receptionist /​host was friendly with the tour but I wasn’t impressed unless I was evicted from my apt with no where to go, this place would be my las resort.

WARNING! Do not come here! I came with my family at 1:30 am to check in. We rang the doorbell, they didn’t even open. We called them, they didn’t even answer. Then, I come here on Unilocal only to see that there’s bad feedback of this place. I need my money back. Horrible experience! I would give no stars if I could. This place doesn’t even deserve a star.

Look at pics… don’t book here unless you like dirty places and old mattress, cheap rough towels, and bed linens cheap! Parking is side of street down road, wherever available. Sucks!

HORRIBLE! Beware!!! The pictures are clearly very deceiving! Do not stay here. This should be called «Nightmare not Dream» suites… After a very long drive to the hotel, our room was not prepared nor was it clean! There was no air conditioning and no parking. After seeing the room, we ran out of there and decided we rather not stay in this hotel. Unfortunately they denied us a refund. I hope that other people don’t ever waste their time or money on this place.

This place has pictures that are VERY deceiving and look nothing like the building/​rooms. Just be advised that it is a much older building and is not a hotel but rather studio apartments. The management was okay, George made a huge deal out of me not arriving before midnight (due to flight delays) and had another resident let me in. I just thought the way he was on the phone was very unprofessional and I basically had to beg him to find someone to be there to let me in. The woman who works there was very sweet and accommodating though! The room was what I was expecting from an older building but the cigarette burned sheets could have been replaced. Not many complaints for the price bad location! Just false advertising of what the room looked like on other sites.

«manager» is incredibly rude. She told me to go screw myself among other insults while trying to fix the broken tv in my room, other problems too. When i got to hotel there was no one to check me in and i had to sit there for 30 minutes til someone got there. Next there was pee all over the toilet and no bathroom window curtain, next, the TV didn’t work. 1^st person couldn’t fix it. Next they sent the «manager» to fix it. She is a Caucasian lady in her 40-​s or 50’s and is unbelievably rude. She yelled at me in my own hotel room that i paid for as she was trying to fix tv simply because i pointed out that what she was doing was most likely not going to fix the tv. at that point is when she got very confrontational and left the room yelling at me to go screw myself. I attempted to get the owners info to let him know about this abhorrent behavior by the staff yet no one who worked there seemed to know the owner or how i could get in touch with him. they seemed to not take my issue seriously at all, i have NEVER encountered this type of service in a hotel before, this person was extremely un-​proffesional and I am shocked that she thinks it’s okay to talk to guests this way. Btw I am not a competitor, just a regular person looking for a room for the night, i dont usually take the time to go to this extent to document how i feel, but this lady was so incredibly rude that I feel like to make this known.

I was drawn to this hotel due to it’s vintage charm. I didn’t mind hearing the other tenants on my stay, as I knew that kind of thing happens in older buildings, …the problem I had was with the stove in my room… when I checked in at 6pm on march third, everything was fine, went to meet some friends, … when I banter back to my room at 1130pm, my room smelled overwhelmingly like natural gas… I called the front desk every two hours to alert them. couldn’t get a hold of anyone until I left my keys in the drop box after noon the following morning… I finally got a hold of the manager who said she would check the room-​which she believed the gas was turned off in-​and she said she would call me back and never did.. I’m disappointed with the total lack of concern from the hotel staff. I’m not an alarmist and have never left a negative review… but they need to be more conscious if the state of their rooms

I expected a little more from this place. Had to stay for a night, it was cute when I walked in and the ppl there were very nice and helpful. The lady said the room had just been renovated and expected it to be really really nice. Was not the case. Once being in the room I noticed there was no shower curtain, no trash can, no towels, no tv, the fan did not work. Took my shoes off and after walking around the tile flooring for walking to the bathroom and checking everything out my feet were black :/​the water pressure in the sink wasn’t great and the tub was a little dirty, guessing from when they installed it. It’s a loud neighborhood and yes it is an apartment complex that rent out rooms or should I say what they call suites to travelers. I don’t believe it’s worth your money.

This is hands down the best hotel in Hollywood. George the owner and Candice the manager are the best people on the planet and people who write inappropriate reviews are probably competitors.

You booked a night or two at the Hollywood Dream Suites which you found in a coupon book for hotel deals. It’s inexpensive, around $ 60 a night and right in Hollywood! «Awesome!» you think — Until you arrive! The only sign out front states that the building is called The Alexander Apartments, and the façade is wacky and false looking making everything even more confusing.
Management is just as wacky as the façade. There is a nice, defenseless little man, (he showed my friend and I to our room when we arrived), a huge Greek dude who apparently is friendly, but I didn’t even see this guy until we checked out, and an insane Negro woman who is the one running the place. It was very obvious that the «Dream Suites» hotel was also inhabited by many long time tenants. During the day, an older woman in a room on the way to our suite would sit smoking with her door to the hallway open while watching T.V. It looked like an episode of hoarders in there… It’s an apartment building people! The suite was just that. It was like a one bedroom apartment on the second floor. There was a sign on the door that said «employees only» for some reason. The place stank really bad the first night we were there. There were ants crawling all over the bathroom which was dirty — Really dirty. The floor made my light pink socks turn black. There was a large kitchen, with no dishes or utensil or anything. Not even a garbage can. There was some old boxed wine left in the fridge. Thankfully there was lots of room to put our stuff rather than being in a tiny hotel room.
The website for HDS is weird. There’s some random ass pictures and basically no information. Don’t be fooled by this flashy bs. In the coupon book where I originally found the ad, It stated that there was free fresh coffee available every morning to the guests. I saw NO evidence of this.
I met a tenant that told me a bit about the place stating that it had once been a bordello for the stars that were working at Paramount Studios, which happens to be right across the street. I was able to see a couple of the smaller suites in the building and that fact was very apparent. That same tenant also asked if I had seen the little roaches. I hadn’t, but I did see the roach traps. By then the suite we were in had a pretty bad fruit fly infestation. But the thing that really threw me off about the suite we were in was the DIRTY SHEETS. They did not change the sheets before we arrived. I know this because I kept getting tangled in these long curly brown strands of hair in the bed. Neither I, nor my friend have long curly brown hair.
If this is not enough information to get you to steer clear of «Hollywood Dream Suites» than you obviously like living on the edge. If you do happen to book a stay there, make it short! One or two nights MAX. The manager, Candace, goes off on long uninterruptible speeches filled with false promises, she’s nosey, pushy, and clearly chemically imbalanced. She’s just not a person you want to have longterm contact with because she radiates negative energy. You’ve been warned!