22 minutes from Santa Monica Beach, 12 minutes from Hollywood Walk of Fame, 19 minutes from Beverly Hills, 6 blocks from a Whole Foods and CVS, and just around the corner from the Convention Center. Great location.
If you read this, copy the text and email it to yourself for the day you arrive. If you’ve never been downtown LA you might spend a few minutes looking. It’s located right in front of your eyes, but as Maxim says, GPS can be tricky. If you’re not careful you’ll end up at Grand Central, not Grand Ave, which are 20 minutes apart. That happened to us coming back from Malibu and we already had stayed one night.
So that’s one thing to watch for. The other is the address. If you get the address just right you’ll land at the front door, but I was a little disoriented (my own fault). The key is in the Metropolis paid parking lot on the corner of 12th and Olive, the main entrance is on 12th and Grand. The condo building is in between Grand and Olive. I would print a map beforehand and circle those two corners. Or you might be smarter than me, but LA is so big (we’ve lived in Jacksonville and Denver which aren’t quite as big), if you’ve haven’t been there it might take you 20 minutes if you go in just looking for the address and then back track to Maxim’s directions. What maybe a better address to put into your GPS is 1155 Olive (or 12th and South Olive), because that is where the key is and where you’ll be parking. Then the building is just across 12th on the Grand side of the alley.
Very clean, and once we were in it felt like home. Thanks Maxim!