My guy was in LA for a conference and I happily tagged along since it had been a while since I visited L.A., and never really got to spend much time downtown. Turns out, I spent little time exploring downtown or L.A. for that matter. I got to see bits of the "other side" taking the subway/ metro from LAX -- super efficient, very easy (though sadly public transportation seems relegated to only those who can't afford a car) -- through some tough neighborhoods. In my 3/4 mile radius on foot, downtown L.A. seemed shiny, corporate, and sunny, but also abandoned after 6ish.

The Marriott is well situated for biz visitors. The desk staff quick and efficient. The rooms spacious and acceptable, no particularly alluring details, but everything you'd expect in a decent hotel. What you really pay for I suppose at $300/night is location, location. However, since the conference was ALL IN THE HOTEL, why not pick one at the airport for half the rate? Maybe I'm too practical... Anyhoo, clean, neat. Stuff that stood out?

- Room service was amazing -- LOVED their fresh fruit and smoothies, omlettes and hash browns especially. Excellent beef quesadilla, and grilled salmon. Stellar. Maybe that's a function of THIS Marriott.

- Roy's restaurant and Takami nearby were both quite sub-par. Roy's wowed us in every other location -- Tampa, San Francisco, Honolulu, Las Vegas, except this one. Takami with it's views are great for happy hour, but little else. Pass on all three of their kitchens, see point #1, order room service instead.

- A local friend took me to Korea town which has excellent, excellent Korean fare, and past a number of Mexican joints which we regrettably could not go to. This was within a 10 - 15 minute drive.

- Short taxi ride to the Mayan nightclub which if you dance salsa, is an absolute MUST. They have parking at the Mayan, and car rentals were running $15 per day (never seen a more ridiculous deal), but we opted out.

- Within a 5-7 minute walk to FedEx Kinkos if you wanted to sit on a computer for longer than 10 minutes (hotel has a biz center at $0.49/ minute), and approx 10 minute walk to a decent Mexican restaurant.

All in all, a purely functional hotel. Can't rave about it, but a good stay nonetheless.

Our room had a king size bed. Very comfortable room... very clean room. The bathroom was really nice. Stayed here on business with my husband. Was in walking distance to good restaurants. We also walked to the subway to go out to Hollywood. We had a great view of the outdoor pool. Pool was shallow.

I stayed in this hotel with my family. The service was ok, and the staff seemed good at the beginning but then one day we left our camera in the room, when we return the camera wasn´t there! We called the front desk personal and they told us that they were going to start a "investigation", the only person beside us who entered the room was the housekeeper. They asked her and she said that she didn´t take it. AND THAT WAS ALL THEY DID! they didn´t do anything else and the people from the front desk didn´t even care. The worst experience I´ve ever had. I expected much more considering what we pay.

Follow my advise, do not stay here!

After paying $240 a night plus $15 a night for parking I expected more from the Marriott. We were very unimpressed with the staff at the Marriott. When arriving, the door men watched us as we struggled to get our luggage out of our trunk and into the hotel until my husband asked for some assisitance. In the bar and grill we told the waitress that we were in a hurry in order to get to a basketball game and she proceeded to ignore us throughout our dinner, and we in fact had to physically track her down to get our check. When we departed we called ahead for car to be brought up which it was, but it was parked way down the driveway and as we once again struggled to take our luggage to our car no help was offered. Besides the unfriendly and unhelpful service throughout our stay the bed was extremely uncomfortable - sloped towards the middle. The bedding was beautiful but that didn't make up for a difficult nights sleep in the old bed. I will not be coming back again to stay when they charge this kind of money for what they offer.