Downtown Los Angeles Hotels
Figueroa Hotel
Metro Station:7th Street Metro Center, Red Line
Walking Distance: 10 minutes/0.5 mile
Address: 939 S. Figueroa St. Los Angeles 90015
Phone: (213) 627-8971
Historic hotel re-imagined as a Moroccan lounge/cocktail oasis. The Figueroa is the most Lonely Planet-ish of our downtown Los Angeles hotels. www.figueroahotel.com Reservations: (800) 421-9092 |
Hilton Checkers
Metro Station: Pershing Square, Metro Red Line
Walking Distance: 4 minutes/0.2 mile
Address: 535 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles 90071
Phone: (213) 624-0000
An updated historic hotel in the heart of downtown, with a spectacular skyline view from the rooftop pool. The lobby is warm and inviting, glistening with amber light, yet it feels unpretentious. www.hiltoncheckers.com
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Los Angeles Athletic Club
Metro Station: Pershing Square, Metro Red Line
Walking Distance: 6 minutes/0.3 mile
Address: 431 W 7th St., Los Angeles 90014
Phone: (213) 625-2211
Since 1880, LA's captains and captainesses of industry have caballed and mingled at this downtown power bastion; now you can join them. Unique among downtown Los Angeles hotels, the LA Athletic Club hotel grants their guests access to the spa, fitness facilities, Olympic-size indoor pool, basketball, tennis and squash courts and rooftop wine-tasting soirees. If we have to choose between staying at a soulless business hotel or this legendary club where Olympic athletes have trained and history has been made, the choice is clear. Let other guests roll up in their Benz's and Porsches while you arrive on the Red Line. www.laac.com
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J.W. Marriott at L.A. Live
Metro Station: 7th Street Metro Center, Red Line
Walking Distance: 12 minutes/0.6 mile
Address: 900 W Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles 90015
Phone: (213) 743-8800
Flanked by a giant digital screen projecting highlights of LA sports and entertainment, the new Marriot feels like the Hotel Blade Runner, if "Blade Runner" was clean and sleek and had a rooftop pool bar. www.lalivemarriott.com
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Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Metro Station: Pershing Square, Metro Red Line
Walking Distance: 4 minutes/0.2 mile
Address: 506 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, 90071
Phone: (213) 624-1011
The grandest of the grand downtown Los Angeles hotels. Romanesque, rococo, Spanish-Mission, gilded, frescoed and marbled, the Biltmore is from an era when hotels were destinations unto themselves. And the bar pours "The Black Dahlia martini", which makes the noir buffs among us feel all cozy. www.thebiltmore.com
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O Hotel
Metro Station: 7th Street Metro Center, Red Line
Walking Distance: 3 minutes/0.2 mile
Address: 819 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: (213) 623-9904
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As far as we know, downtown's only single-letter-named hotel. ["W" is in Hollywood.} Slick, retro-future style near the L.A. Live entertainment complex (Nokia Theater, Club Nokia and the Conga Room) and the Staples Center. The rooms are small and New York-ish.
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Omni at California Plaza
Metro Station: Civic Center, Metro Red Line
Walking Distance: 6 minutes/0.3 mile
Address: 251 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, 90012
Phone: (213) 617-3300
High rise, highly-rated (on Trip Advisor) downtown Los Angeles hotel, designed for tourists, business travelers and conventioneers. The requisite flower decorated atrium lobby showcases a sleek mega sculpture that undoubtedly has meaning to someone. www.omnihotels.com
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Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live
Metro Station: 7th Street Metro Center, Red Line
Walking Distance: 12 minutes/0.6 mile
Address: 900 W. Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles 90015
Phone: (213) 743-8800
Four floors of "ultra" in the new 52 story silver-blue tower that also houses luxury condos. Ubiquitous uber-chef Wolfgang Puck opened his latest restaurant WP24 at the Ritz, the most budget-busting of our downtown Los Angeles hotels. If you're arriving by chopper, you'll have to jostle for landing space with Laker star Kobe Bryant, who recently bought the penthouse, complete with helipad. (Well, traffic in LA is a nightmare) www.ritzcarlton.com
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