Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles
- Fatiga
- First Reviewer
- 4 out of 5
- Avg. Member Rating
- 28
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Spectacular Setting, OK staff
- June 25, 2009
- Rated 4 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
Physically the Millenium Biltmore is great. The rooms are comfortable, the sauna, steam bath, pool, and health club facilities are fine, and the lobby area and meeting rooms are spectacular. Our room was well-maintained.
The desk staff is a little spotty. Our registration clerk was a bit short, and the concierges (several); didn't seem to have a good working knowledge of the area?how buses, shuttles or subway run, for instance?without looking it up. This is not trivial, because there are different published schedules on the weekends, for instance. (It IS possible to not have a car in Los Angeles.)
See if ONLINE TRAVEL WEBSITE or Desk Staff can upgrade you to the Club Floors, which have food (and drink?) included in the room fees. This was not a ONLINE TRAVEL WEBSITE option and I would take it if it were.
To the staff's credit, when I complained about noisy roomers one night at 3 AM in our hallway, they immediately sent someone up to deal with them.
Historic!
- April 10, 2009
- Rated 4 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
Solid hotel service in an amazing building. Check out the pool and the "historic hallway" with photos of old Hollywood parties and Academy Awards ceremonies held in the hotel.
Parking is way expensive, $40/night, but you can park in Pershing Square garage across Olive St. for about $15/night if you don't need to go in and out very often.
My only major complaint was the noise - our room window was over the air conditioner and it was very, very noisy all the time - even with the window closed. Also there was street noise and occasionally sirens.
You can walk to Little Tokyo (almost a mile) but you have to go through about two blocks of business district that's abandoned after 5 to homeless folk - a little creepy but I didn't feel unsafe. We mainly explored there and in the little market near the hotel - lots of yummy-looking Mexican and Chinese food, plus veg and fruit stalls.
Great historic hotel
- April 7, 2009
- Rated 4 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
I grew up in suburban L.A., but had never stayed downtown, so took advantage of the fact that my wife were catching an early train departing from Union Station to stay at the Biltmore. We asked if we could get a room with a safe in it, and the clerk upgraded us to a Club Level room. It was spacious and had a nice view of Pershing Square, which was full of ice skaters for the Xmas season. The main hallway of the hotel was atmospheric and historic. Old photos looked like scenes from "The Shining." We felt safe walking to a restaurant at night. We did have two (very expensive) drinks at the hotel's bar. There's quite a lot of interest in downtown, including the Bradbury Building, Grand Central Market, Angels Flight, and many stores and restaurants. Easy access to a subway station.
Beyond expectations
- January 8, 2009
- Rated 5 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
The hotel is gorgeous. The lobby and ballrooms are magnificent. My room was a standard king which was large and well maintained. The bed was very comfortable. The bathroom was a little small but adequate. Dinner and breakfast was very good but a little pricey. I did not park there because it was $$$ expensive. However, there is parking right across the street if you take the elevator to the ground floor and go out those doors. The hotel is located downtown which is easy access to many attractions. The business center in the hotel made it very easy to print a boarding pass for the flight home.
don't stay here.
- December 30, 2008
- Rated 1 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
well where can i start, well i stayed there for two nights and i prepaid the velet for two nights it cost me $63 and i paid with cash and there was no record of me prepaying the velet when i arrived. At check out they charged my room for the second time for velet again $63 i showed them the receipt that i already paid the velet....finaly they found out what happed it was just a nightmare with parking.... On top of it all when i was leaving to go out i gave them my ticket so i can get my car i wait for 10 to 15 minuts for my car, i asked the velet personal about my car her response was ( O im sorry did YOU WANTED YOUR CAR! ....SO would i stay here again F@%$ck No. Over all the rooms are nice the front desk was nice but would not waste time and money here again. O forgot velet area is so small 3 car max that can fit there thats all.
Don't waste your time and money spend a little more but get good service.