Definitely was in a sketchy place of downtown. Don’t recommend if you’re traveling alone or with a car. The parking garage in front of the hotel charges $10 to park and $10 if the car stays after 6 am… nearby parking is only more expensive and wouldn’t feel too comfortable walking alone. As far as the place, definitely a clean, cute, full of essentials place. We did spend a lot of time exploring and the farthest we went was Malibu which took about an hour with traffic, not too bad. Everything else was about 30-40 mins.