Should have just stayed at Motel 6–at least I would have saved money. I’ll start out by saying the place was really dirty and gross and not like photos. I didn’t feel clean in the shower. There’s a roll down curtain in the shower that gets soaked when you wash and feels gross, and the caulking needed to be redone. The towels and sheets were absolute trash like worse than what I’ve gotten at youth hostels traveling abroad.
The hotel didn’t even let us request early checkin even though the Sonder app shows that option, and that’s okay; but what isn’t okay is when we got there (even though the communication via app and email is to just use your unique code to open the front door to the complex and to open the door to your room with no mention of checking in with an individual), someone checked us in but said our room wasn’t ready. We had to wait over half an hour (on an already sort of late check in time of 4 pm) to be able to enter our room.
There was no soap in the bathroom, and only one trash can in the whole hotel room, which was in the dark corner by the toilet. The room as a whole felt small and it felt like someone took an actual motel six and redid landscaping and added some cheap renovations to try and make it look luxe but instead making it look cheap and aged even more somehow instead of giving the boutique experience I was expecting.
They didn’t tell us we needed to get a parking pass, nor did they give us one on check in. I heard them give someone else a pass while waiting to enter my room and had to ask to get ours.
And there’s not enough parking in the gated area, which doesn’t make sense and is frustrating, because it’s on a busy road with no street parking and we had to park a ten minute walk away and walk to the hotel through empty and uncomfortable surroundings late at night when we came back from the concrete visited LA to see. The place we parked had no “no-parking” signs anywhere or anything to indicate parking restrictions but still ended up finding a parking ticket the next morning.
Our friends stayed at hotel June and paid maybe $30 more altogether and that is what you should do if you want a boutique and luxury stay. It feels like paradise compared to Lum at the same price point. Otherwise you’re better off at a motel 6 or la Quinta