Los Angeles Trip
While this hotel isn't really convenient to Hollywood or Santa Monica pier (where we spent much of time) the drive isn't bad (anywhere from 30-60 minutes depending on traffic and route). It's more convenient for those taking cruises from the San Pedro area. The hotel itself was superb. Rooms were spacious and clean, beds were comfortable, wifi worked well, pool and hot tub were a nice size, and continental free breakfast was better than most. Staff was excellent! The hot tub was more like very warm bath water and we were told it was turned up as high as possible by the front desk. It was still enjoyable. I appreciated that no one came out to close everything down as we got back late each night (10 or so) and enjoyed winding down. Breakfast was a nice surprise with danishes, mini muffins, bread and english muffins for toast, milk, juice, cereal, hard boiled eggs, waffles, sausage and yogurt. It's available later than most until 10 a.m. which was convenient since we weren't in a hurry to get going each day. We even arrived late one morning at about 9:50 hoping to grab a couple of things before time was up and the staff was so kind to ask if there was anything we would like that had already been put away! Something I've never seen before that I liked was the fact that you had to have a room key to access the floors with rooms (swipe the card in the elevator before it would allow you to go to those floors). I thought that was a very nice security feature.