LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles Hotel was centrally located and close to shops and restaurants in downtown Montevideo and taxi ride to central mercado for more restaurants. Was there New Years eve and day and not a good time to go. Hotel staff and even policeman indicated best to stay in hotel due to dangers in the streets by drunk party goers.

The owner helped me to find a rental furnished apartment.

Soaring ceilings, moldings in the old grand tradition, street-side rooms with tall "French" doors opening to the exctement of the city below. Sure, the carpets are horribly dated and well used, and the doors are a bit shakey (use the lock boxes provoided in the office), but at these prices how do you expect more? The bathrooms are typical Uruguayan style and kept sparkling by a well supervised staff. If you want alot of fancy then pay quadruple to stay elsewhere.Still, you could not beat this location.The staff, headed up by El Patrone de las Puertas (the manager who personaly came and spent his time fixing the 30 year old lock on my door) is great! I'm not a social person but by the time I left after 14 days I felt like they were family. I'm an artist so I admit my criteria may be a bit different than the norm. Soft fluff and polish means nothing to me... but the true Uruguayan splendor, worn and noble exists here.(yeah, yeah, the lobby is small, sometimes crowded with Argentine budget travelers and the coffee sucks).

Overall it's a nice place to stay for budget travelers. Room was very clean though furniture is kind of outdated. Perfect for backpackers and young people with tight budget.

This is totally false advertising, the hotel was one of the worse experiences in my life. The first room I stayed in had no fan. When I complaint about it, I was transferred to another room with a fan but the phone did not work. The bathrooms are unique due to the fact that the showers are directly above the toilet. The wooden tiles on the floor were coming off. While I was there someone with a knife came in to attack reception, the security of the hotel is non-existant, anyone can get into the elevator and walk through the hotel. The doors to the rooms were weak, the locks were not strong. The free breakfast consisted of coffee, bread with butter and jell and orange water, not orange juice, but orange water. The hotel has lots of potential but it needs a lot of work. I really had to spend a week at a hotel moved 2 days later to a four star hotel, for double the price I went from hell to heaven.

The hotel was old, customer service was bad at best. The breakfast they provided was a slice of bread and one old croissant per person, disgusting coffee and orange juice. The room had no a/c so you had to open the windows to get some breeze in the room which made sleeping until 9 am a night because of all the noise in the streets. Will never stay at that hotel again.