Hollywood-La Brea Motel

3 stars because it’s walking distance to walk of fame and close to every thing.
However, as a hotel wise-​parking is so tight. Rooms are tiny and old. But I do feel like the owners try to keep up with it but the building itself is just getting old. Unless they do renovation, it’ll be old.
No funky odor or bugs in the room. Breakfast is couple of cookies, apples, and coffee. So don’t expect much.

The rating of this place was very low when I checked it on Unilocal and I can confirm it doesn’t deserve more than one star. I wasn’t expecting anything incredible from this motel since it was very cheap compared to any other places in LA (136 $ a night for 3 persons) but service is horrible too. We called them in the morning to have a room later on at night. There were still some vacancies so we asked to book us a room for 3. When we arrived, the person at the «reception» (little dirty and messy room that looks like we are still in the ‘80s) had no idea that we were coming. Luckily we got a room for one night and got told to confirm before 11.30am the day after if we wanted to extend our stay. No need to elaborate on the room, it looks old, crappy, and dark. But well we knew it wasn’t going to be great and were not planning to spend much time there. Our idea was to leave after two nights to experiment nicer hotels at the end of our stay. So as required by the receptionist, I told them the morning after we were going to spend one more night there. The two old (very old) people at the «reception» at that time then told us it was not possible and that there was a misunderstanding with what had been told us regarding the extension. They had nothing available anymore. Their English was horrible (Asian business apparently) and they were not able to communicate properly what we were supposed to do. After going through all kind of paperwork they finally said we could
move to another room and that a bed would be added. We agreed on that solution in order not to waste any more time but we were really annoyed. The extra bed was not made when we came back and was horrible. We were very happy to leave this horrible place after two days!

I had a friend staying here and they were gone for 10 minutes and I decided to sit in office as a guest because it was a little chilly outside. Employees were very rude and didn’t want anyone lingering in their front desk lobby… When I had every right to since I was waiting for someone who purchased a room. They rushed me out because it took 12 minutes. 2 minutes late … I was forced to leave
I couldn’t believe how rude they were all over me sitting inside a lobby… Ridiculous

Too bad i cannot give any star. This smells like identity theft, identity stealing privacy. It is not marriot, or other high star hotels, but Come On!!! For the price that you pay i expected more. The guy at the registration gave me a card to fill up (they had the details already from the
) and asked me for all the documents i had with me to prove the identity (i was so surprised) Then he asked for the car registration to write down the license plate. He took the paper and made a copy without my permission. I started to confront him saying that i am calling the cops for stealing my privacy and identity and if something happens to my car now and in the future he will be the first to be contacted by authorities. He started not to understand anymore what i was saying and asking me what is wrong with me. Really really annoying and they all look like speaking very well English EXCEPT when they screw you up. I didn’t give him permission to take photos to all my documents and they take advantage. The cops should really pay some visits there!!!
Location good, but very noisy room at the street with not very clean bed, crappy breakfast for the price you pay, simply disgusting. I would not recommend to anybody!!!

ZERO STARS BEWARE!!! I called to confirm my booking for one night in LA and spoke with an old asian man (who I could barely understand). I booked this Motel on Agoda and wanted to confirm payment on my card. I asked the man if he needed my booking ID or even my name and he replied «No, just come in.» I told him I am driving 6 plus hours and need to know if I have this room. He gave me the same reply. Seemed a little shady to me because I asked «will it be the same amount that agoda charged?» and he replied «we will do it, just come.» For all I know he could charge me something completely different! Very unprofessional and rude.

At about $ 150 a night, I expected more from this hotel, regardless of its location. In fact, I’m pretty sure the only reason it can charge $ 150 a night is *because* of its location, which, granted, is pretty great. It’s right at the start of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and only a 7 – 8 minute walk to the Chinese Theatre.
Generally I’m a very laid back traveler and am satisfied as long as my room is clean and safe. But I was just so surprised at the condition of this hotel that I felt uncomfortable during my stay and regret spending the money to stay there. Below is a list of things I noticed.
–Our room had a mini fridge, but it wasn’t plugged in when we arrived, and the way the furniture was situated in the room, its cord wouldn’t reach the nearest outlet.
–Our room had a deadbolt, but it didn’t work; you could keep spinning the knob all day, but the deadbolt wouldn’t actually engage.
–Our room was missing a Do Not Disturb sign.
–The WiFi in our room barely worked (may 30−40% of the time?). We were probably in the room farthest from the office, which might explain it, but if you need to do any work online in the evenings, don’t count on being able to do it in your room.
–TV reception was pretty bad. Remote control gets handed to you at check-​in.
–The hotel feels very dated; it clearly hasn’t been renovated in a loooong time. Our room was clean as far as I could tell, but it felt run-​down. The carpet is very old and felt grungy (almost sticky) under my bare feet, so I wore shoes in the room.
–There are two stairway entrances to the rooms (room doors open to the outside), and one of them requires a key to unlock the access door. But the other does not, so anyone could access the hall balconies. Not sure why there’s an access door on one but not the other.
–There is a small jacuzzi, but it didn’t look very inviting.
–Someone has cut the bottoms off of white plastic bleach containers and has them set out along the balcony/​halls. I couldn’t tell if they were for ashtrays or to catch drips from the AC units, but it looks cluttered. One of these was also sitting on our toilet tank with soaps in it.
–The breakfast consisted of chocolate chip cookies, packaged donuts, coffee, and OJ.
–As another reviewer mentioned, I had to fill out an info card when I checked in with my full address and I can’t remember what else. Don’t remember having to do that anywhere else I’ve stayed.
The proprietors were nice enough, but the man wasn’t willing to help me out with a request to refund my room charge so we could put it on my roommate’s credit card instead. Not a surprise, but just another disappointment about this place.
To end on a positive note, there seemed to be plenty of parking, and I noticed that the parking area was monitored with video surveillance.

If you are looking for the Four Seasons, this is not it. If you want inexpensive and clean, steps away from the Walk of Fame, Chinese Theatre and Hollywood and Highland, this is it. Our bathroom light was out and they immediately sent
someone to fix it. They offer coffee and tea in the morning. The rooms have good size refrigerators, but no microwaves, however there is a nice Italian Restaurant and a Ramen bar next door.
Stayed January 2015

The place is at an excellent location, next to the big tourist area (and part of a nice residential area), and is a great value.
The room was definitely no frills, but was safe, clean, comfortable, and management is very helpful and professional. They have a private parking lot.
The other people I saw staying there all looked like tourists; no sketchballs, etc
If you want to see Hollywood on a budget, this is the place to go. I stayed here previously a few years ago, and will return on my next visit.

Had soooooo much fun here!
I have always wanted to do a hooker/​john role play. I figured what better place than Hollywood Blvd to make that happen?!
The Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo had brought us to town. Despite already having a hotel in Long Beach, we checked in to the Hollywood La Brea Motel (HLBM) at 3p & planned to stay the night. Counting on (correctly) the bedding being sub-​par we brought our own pillows & sheets from our actual hotel. We stashed the HLBM’s bedding in the closet, checked for bedbugs (there were none) & left the rest of the room intact to keep up the fantasy. Threadbare towels, non matching curtains and an outdated old carpet really made it a believable scene for what was to come.
We kissed and parted ways to prepare ourselves for the night. I considered a «Pretty Woman» style costume, but figured that story ends up in a classy hotel so I decided against it. What I did pack was amazing! Fcuk-​me pumps, a red dress that’s shortness was screening the same thing as my shoes & a surprisingly convincing blonde wig (looked like mermaid hair!).
We chose a spot down the Strip that looked safe & planned to meet up at at 9p. I arrived 15 minutes early. Enough time to soak in some gawks & visual undressings, while not actually having to be approached by anyone. My «John» showed up promptly at 9p in a crisp linen suit and a rented Tesla Roadster. He told me of all the dirty things he wanted to do, we negotiated a price & I got in «his» car.
Back at the HLBM we took advantage of the free parking & hurried up to the room. I made him pay me first. I’m not sure if this is standard policy for such translations, but hey, my fantasy my rules! Anyways, what he paid would have been a bargain at twice the price for the services I rendered that night. Loud barely describes my noise level, with no inhibitions I could scream, bang & spank (/​be spanked) at full volume. No one asked us to keep it down, actually kind of disappointing.
The next morning when we checked out (in costume) we got some disapproving looks from the old lady at the desk. We skipped the free breakfast that looked pretty sketchy & I promised to treat at Mel’s with the money stuffed in my bra. In our haste to start our «transaction» we had forgot to lock or put the top on the Tesla the night before, but no one messed with it. A testament to the safety of the neighborhood, perhaps?
In conclusion, this is a fun place to stay if you take it for what it is, a gloriously seedy rundown cheap motel. The rest of the trip was spent in our regular hotel. It was nice, but the night I’ll always remember will be the one at the Hollywood La Brea Motel.

For the price and lack of prostitutes, I can’t complain too much. No bed bugs, but we had one small cockroach. The tv had terrible reception, and there was no HBO, as advertised, but we weren’t there for the tv. The parking lot seemed like the safest place in the area to leave our car, and no one disturbed it. The water pressure wasn’t the best, but the bathroom and towels were clean. It was a small walk to the Hollywood Blvd places we wanted to see and from the Sunset bus line, which will take you either to the Sunset Strip or downtown, and it saved us a ton on parking to take the bus. The room smelled like people had smoked in it more than a few times, but it had clearly been aired out and cleaned. The office breakfast is mediocre donuts, a small bowl of grapes, and coffee made with burnt LA tap water, but they we sweet to offer it. If you’re just wanting a place to crash that is close to everything in Hollywood, go here. I would go back.

Ganz so schlecht ist dieses Motel nicht, wie manch andere Bewertungen vermuten lassen. Hier muss man auch das Datum der Beiträge betrachten, die Bewertung von 2006 ist absolut veraltet, es gibt nämlich keinen Teppich mehr, sondern Holzboden um das Bett herum.
Das Bad ist in einem guten Zustand.
Das Zimmer ist für einen kurzen Aufenthalt akzeptabel, alles (einigermaßen) sauber.
Dennoch macht das Motel nicht den besten Eindruck, es ist einfach insgesamt doch schon recht abgewohnt.
Unschlagbar ist dieses Motel definitiv in der Lage in Hollywood, direkt am westlichen Beginn des Walk of Fame und das zu einem humanen Preis !
(D.h. max. 5 Min Fußmarsch zum Chinese Theater)
Für zwei Nächte kann ich dieses Motel empfehlen.

If i could, would love to give this place negative stars.
upon check-​in the desk clerk, an ancient lady who didn’t have a scrap of information told me i didn’t have a
reservation — really? i don’t? well that’s strange because i have the confirmation email and the pending charge already. She calls a manager to sort things out, half hour later, they are finally able to find the reservations.
As if my
reservation was not complete, he gives me a booking card to fill out which ask for my personal info — ID #, SS#/Passport # — NO thank you, how is my personal info relevant to booking a cheap motel room for one day?!? Really ?!? I refuse to give him my personal information and he says that its the law! At this point, i smell an identity theft scam in the making, and still refuse to provide him with any personal data, and tell him if there is an issue i will be happy to take this up with
or stay elsewhere, he doesn’t push the topic further and hands me my room key and a remote control, yes the remote control needed to be handed through a plexiglass hole …
The room itself is dark, dingy, and smelled of cleaning supplies. The pillows were flat as was the comforter.
this place was not worth the money it costs.
all around bad place.

Let me start with the positive things:
— Great location
–Free parking
… That’s pretty much it…
We got there at around 3.30pm, parked and walked in the office. The guy there barely spoke english. Then we had to fill out stuff (the usual process) and he said that he would go check our room for us. I thought: great, he’s making sure that our room is clean and ready for us to check in…
When we opened the door to our NON SMOKING room, it smelled terrible… Of course someone was smoking in there… The room was very dark, the carpet is disgustingly filthy, the blankets have burning holes in them, the beds are super uncomfortable, i’ve seen cleaner sheets before, then, in the back, the sink had stains all over, the bathroom was not clean at all, the towels were ridiculously dirty with brown stains all over plus there weren’t any bath towels. 3 hand towels for 3 ppl is clearly not enough when you are traveling with 2 girls! Then we were looking for something positive… In the front it said that there was a jaccuzi, so we went looking for it… We found it and it looked like someone poured 5 gallons of milk in it! Clean water looks different! I wouldn’t even let a dog go in there!
So, you might wanna spend a little bit more money and you won’t be afraid of catching some disgusting disease in this motel!

I’ve actually enjoyed all of my stays here. these reviews are very scary. but honestly ive been coming here since 2007/​or 2008. its obviously not a fancy place but unless you can afford something better I suggest oing somewhere else. im not defending them im just sayin’

This place is a front for prostitution. I grew up in LA and attended Hollywood High School so I thought it was just wild to be actually spending a night in an actual Hollywood motel before the Hollywood Half Marathon.
We checked for bedbugs, could not find any trace. Two horrible little pillows on the bed, two thin scratchy towels in the bathroom. Great. It was hard to fall asleep with the sound of a woman sobbing upsairs. At 5:30 in the morning I went outside to lock my purse and computer in the car before the race. A man in the parking lot was arguing with the night clerk about goods or services from some woman for $ 20., that the price had always been $ 20.,. The clerk shook his head no. Great. Are these assholes pimping women?
Do not stay here. Seriously.

joey staphano the porn star dyed in room 122

First off, the people that run that place are RUDE and CRAZY. When we first checked in, we told the old asian man that we want a «non-​smoking» room. What happens when we first walk in our room, it stunk of cigarettes! My boyfriend went down to get a different room. The man starts to yell at him about «whats so wrong with smoking, I smoke!», and some other nonsense. I guess he thought we were insulting him bec we didn’t want to stay in that nasty room. Anyway, we got a non-​smoking room.
We were able to park and unload our stuff inside their parking lot with no problems.
Later, we went out and took the car with us. Came back, to a younger asian guy loitering around the parking lot and yells at us to put the window down. He then starts to hustle us for a room. We told him we have a room. We start to park the car then he starts to yell at us again. I put the window down. He is now yelling at us NOT TO PARK there bec the car is «TOO BIG». I tried to explain to him that we parked there earlier but he continued to yell and told us to park outside. For those who don’t know, there is NO free parking in Hollywood. I told him to stop yelling at us, we are paying for the room and he can’t tell us where to park. I also threatened him to cancel our reservation and go else where. He gave me a «sad face» and walked away. We parked our car there and there WAS NO PROBLEMS.
To top it all off, the next morning we get a phone call at 11am, old asian man’s exact words «Check out time 11:30…I want you OUT before 11:30»
By far most HORRIBLE experience we’ve had at a hotel/​motel. Felt VERY UNCOMFORTABLE and DISRESPECTED.
DON’T GIVE THESE PEOPLE YOUR BUSINESS!!!

So we finally arrive at our destination after almost 3000 miles in four days only to find that we can’t unload our 16 foot moving truck into the apartment on Sycamore until the next morning. It was 10:30 at night. we finally find a place to park the van (a mere 9 blocks away) and start walking back toward LaBrea since we had seen this place while we were looking for parking and were like yay! a place that’s close…
I didn’t really have much high hopes for a MOTEL on HOLLYWOOD– I mean– it’s a seedy nasty place after dark, right?!
Anyway– didn’t have any voodoo or dead hooker experiences like Augusta– but yeah porn was like the only channel… the carpet was brown shag– the bathroom was scary and the sesame street curtains only made it creepier.
We actually drank a bottle of champagne to celebrate the journey’s end had a snack and went to sleep (fully clothed and on top of the made beds)
All in all– it was dingy, slightly depressing and pretty much what I expected…

Mmmkay… where to begin?
The Prelude: Prior to making the move to sunny Southern California I resided in The Land of Enchantment… beautiful, mellow (except during the «windy season») Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was during this time that I had a boyfriend named Kevin. Kevin was a nice fellow. We got along famously, in fact… rarely a disagreement, mostly laughter. We were «buds» — which soon led to the demise of our BF/​GF relationship. But he was a cool guy. And when we were together, we made it a point to travel. Travel often, travel far. We were Out and About, exploring the world. (Or at least cities that were within an Extended Weekend Va-​Cay distance of home and work.)
We decide to forego our monthly trip to Denver (The Rockies were Away, not At Home and nuthin’ was a’happenin’ musically.) We decided to make the trip to Hollywood. Eh? Why not? It’s 10 hours if ya DRIVEREALLYFAST.
So, Kevin told me about a dicey little motel on Hollywood and La Brea with a price tag of $ 30 a night. I quickly nodded a Hell to the Yes and we hit the road.
SKIP AHEAD SEVERAL (more than 10) HOURS: We arrive. The motel is NOT $ 30 a night. It is $ 55. Fine. Whatever. Let’s dump our bags and get some drinks, damnit. I am soooo over being in a small space. (OMG, WHY did we take the Ford Escort?!)
We have drinks at the Lava Lounge… (so NOT what I was expecting after seeing Swingers a mere two months earlier.) $ 5 admission, $ 10 a pop for some shitty drinks and to hear some «DJ» play Cheap Trick records. Really?
Anyway, over the weekend, we manage to get sauced pretty good. But one thing we couldn’t figure out — is that EVERY TIME we were in that motel room, which was a DIRTY, DISGUSTING SQUALLOR — we fought. I mean, damn, son! We argued!!! We SCREAMED! We were filled with HATRED at each other!
But only in the room.
WTF? I know, you’re saying it. I did, too.
Our last night there, Kevin slept on the floor. He hated me
| — — — — — — — — — — — — — -THAT — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -| much.
When I woke up, I noticed the sheets were askew. My eyes widened a bit in horror when I realized the bare mattress my nose was inches from touching was tinged dark brown and smelled somewhat metallic.
W T F ?
I jumped off the bed and kicked Kevin in the side with my bare foot — pointing at the mattress whose sheet was now wadded up at the foot of the bed. In grim horror and dazed confusion our eyes were taking in the freaking FVE FOOT BY TWO FOOT WIDE BLOOD STAIN on the mattress.
! ! !
Are you KIDDING me!!! Ummm, EW! Some DEAD HOOKER had her deadness right where I was sleeping! OMG — this explains why Kevin and I have had muchos hatred towards one another for three days!
The energy is Tainted! Foul! Contaminated! Can you say — EPIC FAIL???: /​
Eff this place! I know we should have said something. Called the cops? Environmental services? I dunno. We packed our shit and got the hell OUT! I mean REALLY! — why the HELL is this mattress still IN THIS ROOM??? Where the fuck is CSI?!?
Don’t stay here. Unless you like voodoo and dead hookers.

This is the biggest shit hole that you could ever be cursed with. The most filth and seedy sketchiness known to man. Remember the scene on «Big» when Tom Hanks checks into a motel and cries because people are yelling and getting shot? Yeah that room would be the Presidential Suite at the Ritz-​Carlton by comparison.
The brown, shag carpet is quite possibly teeming with life that would spellbind the most seasoned epidemiologist.
The TV has two channels… mexican game shows and porn. There are little notes written in black Sharpie all over. For example «on» and an arrow pointing to the nob, «hot» and «cold» written on the tile in the shower, «do not touch» on the light switch.
Oh man… so much spit, piss and other fluids all over the walls, ceiling and floor. A desk. Smells.
I could not sleep there and no way in hell would I touch the sheets.
If you are unlucky enough to stay here, you’ll find out soon enough but all and all you are better off sleeping in your car.
I guess the central theme of all this is that this place is really, really shitty.