The Royal Pagoda Motel - Los Angeles — Hotel in Los Angeles

DO NOT STAY HERE! The biggest problem with this motel is the parking. There are a limited number of parking spots for guests of the motel. The staff failed to mention that it is PUBLIC parking not private parking for The Royal Pagoda Motel guest. Meaning anyone can park there, when ever they want, as long as they want. When booking a room I brought up the concern of the limited parking. The motel employee I spoke to said there is more parking on the side. I thought they meant on the side of the motel, another parking lot or garage. NOPE! He meant against the side of the main building of the motel with the very small parking lot. ||||Nearby Chinatown has a very active night life so forget about parking in the street. If you leave for the evening and return later that night here is what they do when there is absolutely no legal parking. They will have you park against the side of the building or have you double park or triple park. Basically they will fill up the driveway of the parking lot blocking other cars in. A motel employee will ask for your room number and phone number. They will call you to move your car if you are blocking someone who needs to get their car out. Yes even at 2 a.m. when you are asleep.||||Myself and a few other guests of the motel had to move our cars for a non-guest of the motel. I asked the employee who called me to move my car how this person got an actual spot and he said he had no idea. While moving our cars the employee was trying to direct the non-guest out of the parking lot I witnessed a hit and run. The non-guest backed into a parked car in the motel parking lot. That driver and the motel employee acted like nothing had happened. At this point there was finally street parking. I felt my car would be safer parked out on the street a block away from the motel. And the other motel guests who had to move their cars were fighting for whatever space was available in the motel parking lot.||||Another thing is that the rooms are very small and this motel is old. Several electrical outlets in my room did not work. I could not plug in my phone or laptop chargers.||||Plus the parties in the Chinatown may end at a certain time but that doesn’t stop people from coming into the motel to keep the...

DO NOT STAY HERE! The biggest problem with this motel is the parking. There are a limited number of parking spots for guests of the motel. The staff failed to mention that it is PUBLIC parking not private parking for The Royal Pagoda Motel guest. Meaning anyone can park there, when ever they want, as long as they want. When booking a room I brought up the concern of the limited parking. The motel employee I spoke to said there is more parking on the side. I thought they meant on the side of the motel, another parking lot or garage. NOPE! He meant against the side of the main building of the motel with the very small parking lot. ||||Nearby Chinatown has a very active night life so forget about parking in the street. If you leave for the evening and return later that night here is what they do when there is absolutely no legal parking. They will have you park against the side of the building or have you double park or triple park. Basically they will fill up the driveway of the parking lot blocking other cars in. A motel employee will ask for your room number and phone number. They will call you to move your car if you are blocking someone who needs to get their car out. Yes even at 2 a.m. when you are asleep.||||Myself and a few other guests of the motel had to move our cars for a non-guest of the motel. I asked the employee who called me to move my car how this person got an actual spot and he said he had no idea. While moving our cars the employee was trying to direct the non-guest out of the parking lot I witnessed a hit and run. The non-guest backed into a parked car in the motel parking lot. That driver and the motel employee acted like nothing had happened. At this point there was finally street parking. I felt my car would be safer parked out on the street a block away from the motel. And the other motel guests who had to move their cars were fighting for whatever space was available in the motel parking lot.||||Another thing is that the rooms are very small and this motel is old. Several electrical outlets in my room did not work. I could not plug in my phone or laptop chargers.||||Plus the parties in the Chinatown may end at a certain time but that doesn’t stop people from coming into the motel to keep the...

Where to start? Parking, you are lucky if you find a place to park. Room, bare essentials, nothing more. Noise, traffic throughout the night. Smell, if you like the constant whiff of marijuana, you'll enjoy this place. Service, bizarre. We rented a room for two nights. When we arrived, I explained that I rented for one night and then then we had a change of plans, I contacted the place we booked through (booking.com) and asked to increase our stay by one night and they said they couldn't do it, that I would have to call Royal Pagoda and asked if we could extend our visit. When I called Royal Pagoda, they said they couldn't book me for an extra night because I had first gone through booking.com. So, I booked through booking.com for the second night without trying to get the same room. When we got to the Royal Pagoda, I explained the whole situation and they said no problem, the room was available to us for the second night. So, we had a sleepless noisy smelly first night and was willing to pass it all off as an interesting experience. We went to Universal Studios the next day and came back exhausted. We tried our key but found it didn't work so we went back to the office, and they gave us a key. When we opened the door, all of our belongings were gone. We thought we had been robbed. We went back to the office and found out that they had our reservation for that night, but the previous clerk did not note what had happened with our reservation and that we were staying. Instead of calling us, they packed up all of our belongings and stowed them away. The clerk had to search for them. It was such a strange feeling to have our belongings packed up like that. No compensation, no real apology just business as usual. I wouldn't recommend staying there because of the lack of consideration for the comfort, safety, and over all experience...