Out of date, smelly, cheap, small. Cute pool, staff average
On arrival I thought it was a retro Art Deco hotel but quickly realised it just hasn't been modernised. 
It was clean although the hall to level 2 where we were absolutely stank, a kind of weird old musky smell. The room equally stank but you quickly don't notice it.
The room is clean, good shower room. The balcony is overlooked by everybody in a tiny courtyard so you can't sunbathe and also you hear everybody's phone calls etc really loud.
The fountain in the courtyard is turned on all night long so you can hear it all the time.
The bed sheets looked clean but stank of mens BO. I didn't notice until the first night. I didn't say anything because I was sure they'd be changed but no. This went on the entire holiday, too afraid to complain I put up with the smell.
Breakfast was ok I suppose, nothing groundbreaking, if you don't like eggs you're screwed! The toaster took an age to toast and even then to a poor standard. Literally ten minutes waiting for bread to pop up warm bread.
The staff were mixed. The breakfast staff and cleaners were fab. 
We had amazing directions from one of the receptionists. The other guy who I can only describe as being the human version of Peter Griffin from family guy picked his nose through the entire check in.
He managed to keep a straight face while charging us $90 for a small amount of phone calls due to our mobile being lost at Universal Studios. He also kept a straight face while asking for $65 for a taxi to the airport too.
The check out day is what has made me very angry. We have to check out by 11am and our plane to the UK was 8pm, we were allowed to store our bags and use the pool. So by 3pm when we come to leave we needed showers. We were told no. We were given the use of me washroom only. I asked for a towel and was offered a paper napkin, I explained we had a ten hour flight ahead of us and needed to freshen up, her response was 'only registered guests can use our towels' we had been there a week and funded their pension by this time. They couldn't even loan us a towel!
A final insult is the taxi company they booked to collect us are dishonest.
As the driver pulled out of LAX after dropping us I realised I'd left a wedge of nots in the car- about $60. I called the hotel who called the taxi company. They called back to say he looked but nothing. I misted he come back, over half hour later (where had he been??) he returned and surprise surprise nothing.
Interestingly without any indication from me he got out of the cab and went straight to where I left it and pointed and said 'see- nothing'.
Absolute thief. 
Not happy with the hotel. Once we had checked out they treated us like traps off the street. I won't be going back.