Stylish hotel with nice artsy touches. Excellent bar with very good Mexican food and an experienced and friendly bartender. Hotel staff were eager to help and friendly. Excellent location close to Old. Pasadena and freeway entrances. Lovely neighborhood.
Clean and interesting lobby showing old silent films. The hotel definitely appeals to a hip artsy but not snooty clientele. Very fun place to be on a weekend night.
The hotel has been refurbished in a sleek, modern style, but sometimes the room seemed dark with only a couple of lighting fixtures.
At the time of our visit, the television system was unusable much of the time due to loss of signal clarity. Much like the way DIRECTV behaves in a windstorm. Also, at the time of our visit, the elevators were not working properly much of the time. Two of the three elevators Were either shut down or having problems. We opened the doors for one of the elevators and a couple came out, who had been trapped in it for over an hour. When we talked to Staff about this, they said the elevators had problems all the time. So take the stairs.
So that’s the good and the bad of it.