gilders

Thank you for all your help. You can now help others if you like as I have made a booking. The only area where I was happy with all the 3 1/2* hotel on your Priceline lists was in Santa Monica and Marina Del Ray so I put a bid in for GBP

You are totally right about amenities, I rarely use any of them. What I need in a hotel is peace, quiet, safe location. What I WANT and prefer is high quality furnishings and a nice view. It's the quality furnishings that makes me look towards a higher star level hotel and although it is not gauranteed in an expensive hotel, you are less likely to have young drunken guests waking up the whole hotel in the early hours. I'm in NO WAY suggesting that lower income people are more rowdy, it's just that in my experience people tend to behave differently in higher class hotels (rich or poor). I would be completely happy with getting the Residence Inn BH or Hyatt West Hollywood in my budget (both of these along with Coutyard appear on the list on this site for 3* BH-WH for Priceline), but not the Courtyard as it's on a busy, noisy street apparently. This is what worries me about about using Priceline as I may end up in the one out the 3 hotels in the 3* range that I wouldn't be happy with. That's why I've been looking on using Hotwire with the help of this site as there's a good chance we can figure out the hotel before I pay for it. If you know of anyway of working out if it's not going to be the Courtyard that would be great, but I guess impossible. By the way the Trip Advisor ratings appeared on Hotwire again and I managed to figure out all the hotels. Unfortunately all the good ones were well above my budget. I'm guessing that I'd probably get a better deal on Priceline, but I find it quite risky.

I'll actually be flying into LAX, collecting my rental car, then staying in Anaheim for 3 nights. I will then drive to San Diego for 7 nights and finally I will be spending the last 3 nights in LA, again driving up in my rental. I don't mind which area in LA I stay (so long as it's safe and preferably has a restaurant fairly near by, but not essential) as I have the car and know I'll be travelling around. I probably would be least interested in Santa Monica as I'm wanting to go there on the last day before I catch my evening flight home, so it would seem a bit pointless spending the 3 days prior to my departure driving away from the area I'm staying in. But I wouldn't discount a great deal in that area. I'm definitely happy with my San Diego choice which is Old Town Inn for less than $100 p/n with FREE parking and a good breakfast according to reviews. I've also booked the Super 8 Anaheim. It seemed to be getting good reviews on TA when I booked it and the negatives points all seemed to be about the free breakfast which didn't bother me. But it seems to be getting other negative comments now so I may look into changing that choice after I've sorted my LA accommodation. After finding Old Town Inn I thought if I could find a hotel in the top 10 recommened on Trip Advisor in San Diego for less than $100 including parking by booking direct, I'd be able to get something better in LA for the same price using Hotwire. I'm really tempted with Le Montrose that seems to be available for $119 but with the parking it comes out double the price of what I already have booked, but I guess even using Hotwire you still have to pay for quality which is understandable. Thanks again for the help

Hopefully third time lucky with this one as no one has been able to identify the first 2 I've asked for help with. :) 3 1/2* Glendale-Burbank-Universal City Area staying September 13th until 16th (3 nights) price is $119 for 2 adults. There's a 4* hotel for the same price in BH that should be Le Montrose, but with the parking charges it takes it to about $150, so if the 3 1/2* is still a good hotel and has free parking it might be better choice.

Thanks yellowdog. I've just tried that on a variety of hotels but the ratings haven't shown. I even checked the exact same one as what thereuare had seen a rating of 2/5 but it does not show for me :) . It's such a shame it doesn't seem to be showing for any of the hotels on my pc as it would make it so much easier to figure out the hotels without having to ask everyone to help identify.

I keep noticing similar statements such as the one you replied to me "However, for the 3* in Glendale HOTWIRE shows a 2.0/5.0 Tripadvisor rating" I use Tripadvisor and find it very useful, but I've never seen the Tripadvisor ratings on the Hotwire site, so how do you show them?

Thank you so much for your reply and help. I had actually started a different post for the second (Beverly Hills) hotel but forgot to mention how many people it was for and accidentally added a reply to the wrong post. I will be spending 3 nights (4 days) in the LA area. As I was wanting to visit attractions in different areas of the city (Universal Studios, Walk of Fame, etc) and I will have a renat car, my choice of hotel location primarily was for a safe area where I could walk to a restaurant at night. I didn't really want to spend more than $100 per night but could stretch to more if it was a high quality hotel. The only problem with the high quality hotels is that they charge for parking which means going over my $100 budget to say $120 would in reality be more like $150 with parking fees. I had originally made a reservation (direct with hotel) at the Econolodge Glendale at $71 per night with free parking as it was rated #1 for Glendale on Trip Advisor, but since then it has been receiving poor reviews and to be honest I usually stay at a higher class hotel. Therefore I was hoping that using Hotwire and upto an extra $30 would get me something much better. Any further help and advice would be greatly appreciated and I'll make sure I use your links.

Please could somebody identify 3* Beverly Hills-West Hollywood with Boutique, Smoke Free, High speed internet, Golf, Tennis. The price is $109 for 3 nights, September 13th until September 16th. Forgot to mention, it's for 2 adults. :)

The dates are 13th September until 16th September and it is for 2 adults only. Thank you.

Please could anyone suggest which hotel the following could be; Glendale - Burbank - Universal City Area Airport shuttle, pool, restaurant $64 p/n for 3nights in September? Don't know if it's ok to ask the following question so just ignore it if need be. Is there any 4* hotels in the Beverly Hills or Hollywood area that don't charge high price carpark/valet fees?