http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/hid60997 TravelPost.com - Hotel reviews, information, and rates from thousands of websites http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r863184 Clean hotel, safe surroundings, free parking and courteous staff are some of the good features of the Clarion hotel. http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r863184 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r744418 I rented 2 rooms. We had tiny ants in both bathrooms, I thought they were coming from the shower drain so I put a wash towel over the drain hole but they came out thought the shower glass door frame in the morning. There was a red stain under one of http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r744418 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r646174 Great hotel very close to downtown. This hotel was just extensively renovated last year so the rooms are new and nice. Also, the only hotel I found near downtown with free parking (usually $30 downtown) http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r646174 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r429528 the hotel was nice location and clean. (expect neighborhood) the best thing was FREE parking!!! becuse in downtown hotels are parking charges around $25.00 for night. front desk clarks are very nice and veryvery helpful. http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r429528 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r328887 It was my displeasure to stay at the Quality Inn in LA last week. The "hotel" was run down, dirty, phones did not work, air conditioning did not work, all lamps did not have bulbs that worked, the faucet in the bath tub would not shut off. It ran a stream bigger than a pencil. They attempted to fix it at the end of our 2nd day......it was a bit better, but still running. The repairman was very nice. If we had not prepaid for the rooms, we would have left immediately. We saw other guests who had just checked in come back to the desk and leave. Good for them. I had no idea that such flea bags were on the market. http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r328887 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r328866 The picture and write-up of this property paint a great story. But, what's behind the door is scary. Bottom line....they are remodling but most rooms are not yet complete. The air conditioning, phones, and even lights do not work in some. I transfered 3 times to find a room and finally settled for one without a working phone. The construction materials are all throughout the hallways. The pool is functional but landscaping does not exist. The lobby is the only acceptable portion of this property. Somewhat better rooms were available but I was left with the feeling that if you booked using an on-line process, and had a better $rate, these rooms were not available to you! http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r328866 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r429529 This hotel now undergoing renovation until sep 2007. Some of rooms already opened and fantastic...^^ http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r429529 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r429530 This place is nasty and filthy. Their photos are all lies. Bugs, dirty, stench, raggedy, old and beat-down, perfect for prostitution business, dark, dingy, low customer care!!!! If there was a Negative 10 rating, I would sock it to them. http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r429530 http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r443164 We pre-paid through Orbitz for two rooms for two nights. We checked in kind of late, about 10:30, with our four teenage girls. There was a free parking garage, but it was too full (and very tight for our minivan to turn around in), so we had to park across the street and pray we wouldn't get a ticket. The elevator was too small for the six of us to fit into, so my husband had to take a separate trip. To get to our rooms, we had to take the elevator up to the second floor, then walk out onto this sort of balcony edging a poorly-kept Astroturf courtyard. The floor of the balcony had Astroturf that was mildewy and pulling up all along the edges. The rooms were horrible and mildewy. Carpet in both of our rooms had iron marks burned into it. Carpet in both rooms was mildewy and black in the corners. Wallpaper and ceiling tiles in both rooms (and in the hall)were mildewy and falling down. Both rooms had an outside entrance to the room (on the courtyard side) and a sliding door on the opposite side. The sliding door in our room had a curtain that wouldn't close all the way and that was stained with something unspeakable on one side. The slider on the girls' room didn't have a lock. Instead, they had placed a flimsy metal bar there that was way too long to provide leverage to keep the door locked. The entrance door on the girls' room also was missing the chain lock or any other security lock other than the computer key lock. The girls' room shower didn't work. The water came out barely as a trickle, with no hot water at all. Both rooms had horribly mildewy showers with faucet handles that you wouldn't want to touch. Our room was missing a mattress pad, so the thin stained sheet was all that stood between you and the mattress. The box springs on all four beds were missing the manufactured covers--all you could see was the weird wool batting that covers the springs. Overall, the rooms were so nasty that there was no way we could stay there. I didn't feel like it was possible for the girls to stay in their room alone due to safety reasons, and there was just no way we would be able to sleep. So, we spent an hour using the internet (free internet in the rooms) to try to find another room. It took forever to find two empty rooms at that time of night! Finally we made a reservation at another hotel and I went to the concierge to tell him we were leaving. He was very nice and seemed terribly embarrassed to be working there. He did mention that we had pre-paid, but I didn't care. He offered to change rooms for us, but when I asked him if he had some nicer rooms somewhere hidden in the hotel, he didn't have an answer except to say, "I didn't realize THOSE rooms were so bad." After we got home, Orbitz did refund our money, minus $25 for a service fee. I was glad to get most of our money back. Recommended: No http://www.travelpost.com//hotels/Clarion_Hotel_Downtown/r443164