Sonesta Select Los Angeles LAX El Segundo

“Friendly Staff”

Friendly staff, clean rooms, free airport shuttle

“Exceeded my expectations.”

I just stayed here for 24 hours the other night after a long flight back from Vietnam en route to New Orleans. Just needed to get a night’s rest between flights. Flew in one night late and my next flight was leaving at midnight the following night so I actually extended my stay so that I could stay… more

I just stayed here for 24 hours the other night after a long flight back from Vietnam en route to New Orleans. Just needed to get a night’s rest between flights. Flew in one night late and my next flight was leaving at midnight the following night so I actually extended my stay so that I could stay in the room the next day and sleep instead of check out in the morning and wait around all day for my flight. Not on airport property, but literally only about a five minute shuttle ride to the airport. Super quick ride over in the free shuttle. Very quick wait once arriving at the airport and calling the shuttle. Maybe 10 minutes? This is a really old hotel, complete with popcorn texted ceilings. I assume it was probably built as another chain property decades ago? With that said, they’ve done a tremendously good job keeping this hotel clean and modern and up-to-date for the most part. Might be time to update the bathrooms and shower a little bit, but other than that, the room was exceptionally clean and comfortable. Even the carpeting in the room corridor hallways appeared to be almost brand new and the whole place even had that “new hotel” smell! Could hardly even find a single ding or scrape on the wall or any sign of use or neglect, despite the age of the place. All of the staff I dealt with were welcoming and top-notch hospitality. Also, I’d just spent 3 1/2 weeks in high-end four and five star resorts in Thailand and Vietnam and I must say the bed here was the most comfortable bed I’ve had during my weeks of travel. I slept like a baby! Only a couple very minor issues that didn’t inconvenience me too much. The first was the elevator was broken and out of service, which was kind of inconvenient when I had three heavy suitcases to get up to the room after flying for more than 20 hours. Second issue was my key card stopped working. Had to go down to address the issue, but there was a long line with one guy working the check-in encounter and I had to stand there for literally 20 minutes behind five different people checking in just to get my key card reprogrammed. Pool was also temporarily closed, but that wasn’t an issue for me. Some of the other guests staying there were kind of ghetto and ratchet, but I guess that’s what you deal with when you stay at three star or lower hotels, especially in California where rates are pretty high to begin with. I will remember this place the next time I have a layover at LAX. I usually stay over on Century Boulev

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