Hotell CURRENT, I really wanted to like you. Your lobby is beautiful and modern, my room had a wood floor (tile in the bathroom), stylish furniture, a flat-panel TV and a very comfortable bed. It was spotlessly clean. Your staff are very friendly and helpful as well. Evidently the furniture cost so much there was no money left over for climate control, though, as heat and cooling are provided by a 70s-era unit just below the window (you know the type--seemingly every motel in North America has them). Mine was loud as hell and squeaky, but it did work. My room faced PCH, and neither the thin wall nor the single-pane window did much to keep the traffic noise down. Traffic noise doesn't bother me much, but if it did I'd have had to sleep in my car; it was that loud.
Breakfast consists of a repurposed meeting room with a couple pots of decent coffee, a waffle iron, a bowl of fruit and some cereal. If you're in too big a hurry to wait behind the 15 people making waffles (at 2 mins each, do the math), you're relegated to cereal; evidently breads and pastries weren't in the budget.
Finally, this hotel has about 100 rooms. Who thought it would be OK to have two washing machines for everyone to share? Luckily there's a laundromat 5 minutes up PCH.
My room at this hotel was very nice, but unfortunately the nice room was outweighed by the useless breakfast, traffic noise and "convenient to nothing" location. I'd have been able to overlook those if this hotel were cheap, but it's not. For the price of this hotel you can do so, so much better.
- Hotel Long Beach
