Courtyard By Marriott Los Angeles Lax Hawthorne

“Modest proprty close to LAX, the Kia Forum, and SoFi Stadium”

We stayed at the TownePlace Suites by Marriott Los Angeles LAX/Hawthorne for a one-night stay while seeing a concert at the Kia Forum. The services are basic, but our room certainly met our needs. The room was relatively modern and more spacious that I expected. It had a kitchen that we didn't u… lisää

We stayed at the TownePlace Suites by Marriott Los Angeles LAX/Hawthorne for a one-night stay while seeing a concert at the Kia Forum. The services are basic, but our room certainly met our needs. The room was relatively modern and more spacious that I expected. It had a kitchen that we didn't use. The hotel shares space with a Courtyard by Marriott that offers more services (a Starbucks and a bar and food service in the lobby in the evening). The hotels share a pool area, which is probably well nicer than it would be if there was just a TownePlace Suite on the property. I ate dinner at the pizza restaurant that's on the property (you need to walk outside to get there). I would recommend it!

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“Lots of Room for Improvement Here!”

It has been how many years since covid, yet, this Marriott still serves breakfast in disposable dishes. Terrible feeling pouring HOT oatmeal into a FOAM, i.e. PLASTIC bowl. The first morning, there was no oats at all to be found, not even Quaker instant ones in paper bags. When I pointed to a sign … lisää

It has been how many years since covid, yet, this Marriott still serves breakfast in disposable dishes. Terrible feeling pouring HOT oatmeal into a FOAM, i.e. PLASTIC bowl. The first morning, there was no oats at all to be found, not even Quaker instant ones in paper bags. When I pointed to a sign suggesting oats as one of the bases for breakfast, the staff took the sign away. YET (and kudos to them for this!), the next morning, there was a big pot of freshly made oatmeal waiting for us. This didn’t hold for a long time, so in the long run, I had to ask for oatmeal, the personnel would then go into the kitchen and bring back that doggy bowl of freshly-made oatmeal. So don’t hesitate to ask! Now please replace that plastic with regular ceramics, we are in California, after all! After I saw a fellow traveller come down to breakfast with ceramic mugs from the kitchenette, I started doing the same thing, but it needs to be a centralized thing. (On the flip side, this Marriott was the first hotel that brought back a notepad and a pen in a room, much appreciated!) Now my second complaint is that a nice big stylish bathroom in my room was designed by someone to whom it never occurred that guests might have long hair and actually have to wash it. Every single time there would be a clog (see photo) and I would jump through hoops to get out of there with rinsed feet and ankles. (Certainly, I called for an engineer, but one feels bad about inviting an engineer over just to unclog a bathtub full of hair every other day or so.) Hopefully, a solution can be found because it takes more than 24 hours for all of the water to go away. A friend staying at the same hotel at the same time said that she didn’t have any issues at all and her hair is not exactly short, so it have indeed been a clog in my room. Again, a nice gesture on the part of a Marriott employee to add me Marriott points for the inconvenience. Last, but not least, neither of the printers connected to the computer downstairs for everybody’s use worked. When I emailed my piece to be printed to the front desk, it turned out that their printer was not printing either and the lady had to forward the piece to her manager, who finally managed to have it printed. Took us about half an hour to print six pages.

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