Nice hotel, fading grandure but cleaning staff is lazy!
This hotel has the makings of a really great hotel!
However, despite meeting rooms that are named after movie stars, a lovely fountain in the back entrance, nice wide hallways and renovated rooms, this hotel falls short. 
I arrived at this hotel very excited because many movie stars have stayed at this hotel in its long history. The hotel still has that feeling of past grandeur, but it needs some money and time spent on it to bring it up to snuff. It also needs a better cleaning staff.
We arrived to our room. Smaller than anticipated, but bright, updated. No bathtub, but we were prepared to live with that until I started to notice hair on the tile floors. It was long, dark, curly hair and it was all over. I called the front desk and complained and was told that housekeeping would clean it well in the morning. I thought that was inadequate, but was tired. So I got into bed... that's when I noticed that the long, curly hair was also in the bed. I called the front desk and was told someone would come to change the bed. No one showed up for 1/2 an hour. My husband went down to the front desk and was ignored until he asked loudly when someone would be coming to our room to deal with the hair in the bed. Then they sent the maintenance man. 
It took almost two hours for the maintenance man to find enough sheets and pillow cases to change my bed. They had no duvet covers available, so we had to do without one for the night. Needless to say that I did not sleep well after all of that.
The manager, Roman, did his best to turn the situation around the next day but upgrading our room to a bigger room with a bathtub. We appreciated that and had no more problems with hair in our room. Roman also did not charge us two nights parking, which was appreciated. However, hot water was an issue.
I had several tepid showers while staying at the Hollywood Hotel. We had a bathtub but not enough hot water to take a bath. In addition, although the hotel had a pool and sauna, the sauna was a two person sauna which needed to be reserved. You could only reserve it for a half hour, even though it was kept off and took almost a half hour to heat up. The pool was cold.
One little note about hotel cleanliness: a dog was on the premises during our stay. This very sweet dog was a 'service' dog - but not really. He was in show business. Anyway, I'm sure he crapped on the floor right around the corner from the dining room where breakfast was served. My husband and I discovered this rather stomach-turning "accident" and reported it to the front desk. The next morning, our last, we noticed that though the feces had been removed from the tile floor, the smears were still very much in evidence. Again, not the most energetic or interested housekeeping staff. We did not bother to mention this one to the front desk. 
Front desk staff were not the most responsive. I have stayed in many hotels over the years, both for pleasure and business, and have not met staff quite so unhelpful. 
In all, our stay at The Hollywood Hotel - much anticipated by me - was a disappointment. It is too bad because this hotel has the fundamentals of a really nice hotel. The price is very good, but they could charge so much more if they spent some money upgrading and restoring this hotel to its former beauty and lushness. And put in a pool heater and a hot tub. And totally changed up their housekeeping staff and most of the front desk staff....