Hollywood Highland Hotel & Hostel

Do you want to die? Because this the hostel you go to if you want to die. Dirty, horrible service, and not worth it. I get that it is cheap and in a good spot but this place is sketch. They didn’t have our reservation and claimed we should have known not to book on
they day of… what?

I had a really good time at that hostel. Staff was super nice, they helped us a lot. The location is perfect!

So where do I begin with this place hmmm well let’s c the manager the biggest blackest baldest man of them all has the NERVE to b a dam racists against Americans and even black people himself. He’s rude disrespectful and extremely disrespectful to both women and gays or anyone he feels he’s bigger than (which is just about everybody cause he’s about 6’4 400 lbs). Not to mention I was there about a week ago when a couple of EMPLOYEES WERE ARRESTED FOR RAPING A BRAZZILIAN GIRL WHO WAS STAYING THERE! The owner is a pig and didn’t even care that a woman had just gotten rapped he just wanted to get more people in. Over all I would NOT recommend this place if u want to get treated like shit and be disrespected and possibly get raped then yes by all means this place is perfect

La ubicacion del hostal es excelente, en el centro de Hollywood. Me gusto mucho porque es pequeno, limpio y el staff fue muy amable en todo momento. El precio incluye el desayuno, asi que ahorre dinero en eso. Definitivamente lo recomiendo a todos los que quieran pasarse unos dias en el centro de LA.

Couple of friends, my sister, and I needed a place to stay the night after the L.A. Rising concert.
We couldn’t book a room at the usual spots where my sister and I stay in L.A. ’cause none of us had a bank card we could have used to reserve a room. After calling a few places, we found that the HHH&H had space. But they couldn’t keep us together. Not a big deal.
We roll up the place. Location is great, it really is. The Chinese Theater is three blocks away, there’s a liquor store downstairs from the hostel, and a CVS right across the street. However, the smell of urine you get as you walk up the front door is a more realistic expectation of what’s in store for you at the HHH&H.
From what I can tell, each room has three to four children’s bunk beds. CHILDREN’S bunk beds. Every single one is flimsy as all hell and they set it up so it’s nearly impossible for most people to climb on the top bunk; the ladders are either against a wall or next to another bed. Let’s not forget that all the top bunks don’t have a mattress. They all have BOX @#$% SPRINGS.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I have back problems that can render me an invalid for up to six weeks at a time. I can’t sleep on a got damn box spring! I’m not even sure you’re supposed to sleep on those, regardless. But that’s what you get when you pick the top bunk. And if you don’t have a choice, then you’re SOL.
Bathrooms are more or less decent. Better than a gas station crapper, but just barely. Toilet paper was scarce in three of the four bathrooms I walked into. And there were also used feminine hygiene products in one bathroom, each time I checked; meaning that the restrooms aren’t cleaned out daily.
The guy at the «front desk» told us that there was free breakfast from like 8am to 10am or something. We showed up at the hostel again at around 8:30am; there wasn’t any food in sight.
The $ 25 dollar/​person rate plus the $ 10 deposit for the key is a steal for the location. But you are sacrificing a lot.
…Yeah, we showed up at the hostel again. The four of us decided to sleep in the car somewhere in Hollywood Hills instead of in the hostel, even though we were all tired as #&%$ from the concert.
Anyone that gives this place more than two stars is delirious beyond any logical reason.

All I can say is it’s a good location. If this were in a third world country and it was $ 3 a night instead of $ 30 it would be a good deal, lol.
The mattresses were so gross I may never recover mentally from having to sleep on them. Some janitor type guy named Andy or something kept bugging me while I was there. I saw a bedbug on the other bunk just chilling walking by. I went to sleep anyway cuz it was already
around 3am I woke up to this dude standing in the room with me, asking if I wanted some lotion or perfume. I told him I was cool. As soon as he left the room I grabbed all my stuff and left there in the middle of the night I was so freaked out. he then proceeded to text and call my phone with the phone number he must have gotten off my sign in, for the next year. this place is ultra sketch, believe me!

I worked here for the summer, meaning I slept in those bunk beds for 3 months. I know the place well. Ha. Yes the carpet is seriously jacked up. But you can’t compete with the location or the local «charm». You’re gonna meet Hollywood here. It’s weird as shit. Welcome. Free PB&J for breakfast. Kitchen. George Foreman grill. TV with HBO. You get the basics and a chance to meet some of the good olé normal European tourists plus the everyone who wants to MAKE IT. Delusional singers, actors, porn stars, directors, triple threats come here first. Be a part of history kiddo.

My frist day in Los Angeles,. straigth from the airport was here… at this hostel. Gosh, when I remember those days — I had 200 dollar in my pockets and the goal to make it as filmmaker like everybody else in this town. Now, 8 years later I’m wondering how I ever managed to make it having had only 200 Dollar and a suitcase with me. But a not about the hotel, it is nice… it’s shared rooms and for students, travles or people starting their life in town new, best place to be.
I did then month later work at another hostel a few blocks from there… worked the front desk for a free bed. Was a good deal, given that I came as a immigrant trying to make it in this town.