Royal Palace Westwood

I love this little gem that is walking distance to UCLA and Westwood. I’ve stayed here 4 times. It’s not fancy and there is no gym but rooms are clean and nice, breakfast is good and staff are friendly. Parking is not ideal but the hotel makes it work.

Very nice place and cleaning staff was excellent. Most of the room was updated but the sleeper sofa needs to be updated with springs coming through the mattress. Great location for Westwood and UCLA, but if you stay on the side which has the parking and alley, be prepared for grease smells from Denny's and a Chinese restaurant across the alley, and garbage trucks at 7am smashing and grinding ..

Clean updated rooms in quiet area convenient to several restaurants. Safe to walk during day and no one on sidewalks when we returned to park after the Hollywood Bowl (around midnight). One mile to Westwood Shuttle bus for $7 round trip and will return to visit Getty or other area events. Breakfast OK withe cereal, hard boiled eggs, bread/rolls, yogurt, bananas, coffee & juice.

The hotel was very near someone I was visiting, it was moderately priced and clean, so it hit all my most desired criteria. I have only very minor complaints. It happened to be very warm when I was in LA--high 90s during the day. The room air-conditioner could never get the room temperature below maybe 78, even though at night, it was relatively cool outside. In addition, the air conditioner ran non-stop all night and was quite loud. Surely, most of the year, the existing system could keep the room comfortable, I just happened to be there at an unusually hot period. Bottom line, I never got more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep each night (I was there nearly a week.) The hotel is a couple of blocks from UCLA Hospital, many of the guests were out-patients or family of patients, and I saw they offered a free shuttle to the hospital. (Thought it was a smart move on the hotel's part.)

Pleasant service and good location, room is big and beds are comfortable but the view was not pleasant all garbage bins around us and the hotel is very old and need remodeling and also needs to get rid off the mold smelling in the room and hotel in general.