Vagabond Inn Los Angeles-USC is a stone's throw from the USC campus and the Shrine Auditorium, home of the Emmy Awards, in the heart of Los Angeles. Plan a visit to the nearby Universal Studios and save with our convenient packages! Also within a few miles are Downtown Los Angeles, Staples Center, LA Convention Center, Garment District and the Museum of Natural History, among other points of interest. Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm are just 25 miles away. Our inn has Business Friendly rooms with ample work space, larger TV with remote control, desk lamp with an additional outlet and dual-line telephones with data ports for Internet access. A business center is also located in the lobby area. The Grinder restaurant is on our premises for your dining convenience. Whether you visit Los Angeles for business or pleasure, we'll serve you with our own brand of Western Hospitality. Good value, friendly people- it's how we do things.
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During your Los Angeles vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
UCLA Hammer Museum
Created by the former chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum, the Hammer Museum has had a hard time winning the respect of critics and the public. Barbs are aimed at both the museum's relatively flat collection and its patron's tremendous ego. The Hammer is ensconced in a two-story Carrara marble building attached to the oil company's offices. It's better known for its high-profile and often provocative visiting exhibits, such as the opulent prerevolution treasures of Russian ruler Catherine the Great. In conjunction with UCLA's Wight Gallery, a feisty gallery with a reputation for championing contemporary political and experimental art, the Hammer continues to present often daring and usually popular special exhibits, and it's definitely worth calling ahead to find out what will be there during your visit to L.A. The permanent collection (Armand Hammer's personal collection) consists mostly of traditional western European and Anglo-American art, and contains noteworthy paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrandt, Degas, and van Gogh. A $25 million renovation and expansion -- including four new galleries, a restaurant, and a 288-seat theater -- should be completed by the time you're reading this.
La Brea Tar Pits
An odorous swamp of gooey asphalt oozes to the earth's surface in the middle of Los Angeles. No, it's not a low-budget horror-movie set -- it's the La Brea Tar Pits, a truly bizarre primal pool on Museum Row where hot tar has been bubbling from the earth for more than 40,000 years. The bubbling pools may look like a fake Disney set, but they're the real thing and have enticed thirsty animals throughout history. Nearly 400 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and fish -- many of which are now extinct -- walked, crawled, landed, swam, or slithered into the sticky sludge, got stuck in the worst way, and stayed forever. In 1906, scientists began a systematic removal and classification of entombed specimens, including ground sloths, giant vultures, mastodons, camels, bears, lizards, a Starbucks, and even prehistoric relatives of today's superrats. Today it's one of the world's richest excavation sites for Ice Age fossils. The best finds are on display in the adjacent Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, which houses the largest and most diverse collection of Ice Age plants and animals in the world. Archaeological work is ongoing; you can watch as scientists clean, identify, and catalog new finds in the Paleontology Laboratory. An entertaining 15-minute film documenting the recoveries is also shown.
Craft & Folk Art Museum
This gallery, housed in a prominent Museum Row building, has grown into one of the city's largest. "Craft and folk art" encompasses everything from clothing, tools, religious artifacts, and other everyday objects to wood carvings, papier-mâché, weaving, and metalwork. The museum displays folk objects from around the world, but its strongest collection is masks from India, America, Mexico, Japan, and China. The museum is also known for its annual International Festival of Masks, held each October in Hancock Park, across the street. Be sure to stop in the funky, eclectic Museum Shop (tel. 323/857-4677) to peruse the wearable art, folk art books, and various handmade crafts.
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Most recent user reviews
One Night Stay
Anonymous, San Francisco, CA, 2006-09-29
Lots of cheap college eateries right outside the motel.
The Vagabond Inn USC was only a block from the university. The room was spacious. The facilities is old and heavily used but well maintained. The bed was comfortable. Plenty of free parking, a free continental breakfast and a free-to-use internet computer in the lobby are what set the hotel apart from the competition. It is located in a noisy neighborhood, and when a semi-truck pulled into the parking lot late at night, it was very noisy. Early in the morning, the garbage truck came around, then the semi started up. We did not sleep very well.
Personel very helpful
Anonymous, Sacramento, CA, 2006-08-10
This is near the downtown business district and within walking distance to Staples Center.
I only stayed one night, but the staff was very helpful with my inquires and any requsts.
Nice area, No hassles
Anonymous, 2006-05-28
15 minute drive on surface streets to the L.A. Fashion District. 30 minutes to Wal*Mart.
The Vagabond Inn Los Angeles-USC is in a clean, well-lit area of the main street near USC. At least a dozen fast-food and sit-down restaurants are within walking distance or a 1-minute drive, including the spacious Eat St. Grill adjacent. All these are frequented by university students, so safety was never a concern. Plenty of parking is available outside each room, and access is free 24 hours. Room doors open to the outside (rather than into a secure hall), but we never encountered any street people or unfriendlies on the premises. Our room was a spacious 2nd-floor corner overlooking the secure, heated pool. We were pleasantly surprised by the working refrigerator and microwave. Other amenities include hair-dryer, iron and board, coffee maker, and even styrofoam cups. A work table with adjustable chair is included, in addition to a sitting table with 2 chairs. Cable television includes local channels, network, pay-per-view, and movies on-demand. The free high-speed internet worked fabulously, but you must bring your own ethernet cable, and bring an extra-long one to reach the desk, because the single network port is on the nightstand between the beds. A $20 cash deposit is required to use the in-room telephone, but all toll-free calls, incoming calls, and local calls within 10 miles are absolutely free! Don't forget to ask for your remaining deposit back when you checkout.
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