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11 reviews for Holiday Inn
HOTEL, MOTEL.. Holiday INN!... Okay, I dated myself if you know those lyrics.. hahah
Run of the mill location, only went here for some professional development classes through NASW (Social work stuff).
Seats are like almost every place I have been, comfortable for the first 20 minutes, and feels like hell for the rest of the day. Those generic chairs, though cushioned, are NOT for people over 25, I swear! Ergonomics were not in the training of the designers of these chairs.
Otherwise, it was not dingy or creepy. Parking is right next door in their garage, so it was convenient. I guess they have long term parking on the upper portion and I had to park near some limos and trailers for boats and what not. There was also an older BMW that was dusty and had penis drawings all over it. ahaha.. Made my day.
4 stars just for that alone, the rest was blah, so 3 overall.
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I loved the fact that I got this room for a great deal on Priceline at $77. Regular price started at $177. I also loved the fact that it only took 10 minutes through surface streets to get to Universal Studios.
Hotel rocked because they had FREE parking and FREE wifi!!!!
Having a fridge in the room was great because we were able to bring in chilled drinks to the parks.
Our room had two double beds and a flat panel tv. Located on the 8th floor, we had views looking down towards the gazebo. Our room was clean and adequate. I don't know what the other whiners and complainers are talking about. For God's sake, it's a Holiday Inn, not the Four Seasons people!!
The concierge dude was nice and funny. He printed out a map for us to get to Medievil Times all the way in Buena Park. He always accomodated us. Check in and restaurant staff are helpful and nice.
If we do stay here again, I'll probably pass on their buffet breakfast, as it was just ok, although it did serve the purpose of filling our bellies. My son was pretty disappointed with their flattened pancakes. Buffet included: fruit, cereal, boiled eggs, bacon, country gravy, sausage, scrambled eggs, french toast and pancakes. Price for adults $10.95 and kids under 12 $6.95.
Very close to getting onto the 5 freeway and found a grocery and pharmacy two minutes away by car.
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I love it here. The 16th floor view is awesome.. The front desk staff are very knowledgeable, they can answer questions like where to eat across the street till 2am. & where to get cigarettes (4 blocks away) in the middle of the night.
My tote bag was taken by another passenger on my flight out here. And the hotel transportation was very friendly and willful in helping me retrieve my tote from the airport.
The hotel pool is gorgeous.
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Dear Duffy D.:
Thank you for your recent review of Holiday Inn - Burbank. It is bold, captivating, dark, mysterious. It has all of the elements that makes a Yelp review a classic. You truly embody our slogan "Real People, Real Reviews."
But, numerous flags have appeared on this particular review, and, after careful deliberation, we have decided that your review is to be removed from http://yelp.com for the following reasons:
1. Your review doesn't actually show that you patronized the establishment, just that you "... snuck into the hotel and swam in the pool inconspicuously."
2. Commenting on the "hotness" of the hotel clerk being "sub par" being a reason for removing a star is tactless, to say the least. The Holiday Inn is NOT a strip club.
3. You used inappropriate language throughout the review, including the f-word 14 times, the s-word 23 times and used the p-word for no known reason.
4. Asking to get your "D S'd" to improve your rating of the hotel is just profane, to say the least.
5. Ok. We get that you like Donnie Darko. You do not need to repeat "THIS IS THE HOTEL USED IN DONNIE DARKO" 186 times. It is just plain irritating.
6. What does the fifth amendment of the Bill of Rights have to do with anything?
So please make an attempt to re-write said review.
And no, we will not (ever) make this review the ROTD for the San Fernando branch of Yelp. But thanks for the 56 emails asking if it can.
Sincerely and Good Luck,
http://Yelp.com
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(It is true. I did sneak in there to swim once. By myself. Which means I'm a creep or a genius. You decide.)
Btw, I have patronized this establishment, I now realize. They have a great arcade. That gives it 4 stars. :)
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I had fun in this hotel. These are some of the reasons why I liked it:
1. It's only 5 minutes from our house.
2. I got the chance to sing twice in this karaoke night event.
3. free munchies while waiting for your drink.
4. i got buzz on my first order of long island iced tea so it just saved me some money ordering for more
5. i was with my lovee and this is the first place where he sang onstage and I got up to dance with him...isn;t that sweet??
No, I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.....just a regular old Holiday Inn.....2.5 stars - at least it was clean
Um, Holiday Inn....the 80's called, they want their hotel back......and their super large fridge in your room....the ugly bright lights in the bathroom.....the lost reservation.....the lack of complete toiletries.....
Your only saving grace was your great location to a liquor store and late night bites......
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A stay in a Holiday Inn should be a thoroughly unremarkable experience, but I have remarks.
I was booked into a smoking room.
The other guy from my company was also booked into a smoking room.
I complained louder, I guess, so I was given instead a nonsmoking handicapped suite. There, I rolled over in the night and the bed squeaked so loud I was alarmed into wakefulness.
All the furnishings were extraordinarily ugly, and arranged in a way that struck me as highly inconvenient to the wheelchair-bound, but since I didn't have a wheelchair handy to carry out any tests, I guess I'll overlook that part.
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It was so sad that our last night in Los Angeles was spent at the Holiday Inn - Burbank of all places. Our reasoning was it was right off of the 5 freeway and there were family friendly restaurants in walking distance so that our friends and family could easily meet us for a good bye dinner. Several of my friends and relatives have stayed at the same hotel and I never heard any complaints so we decided to give it a try.
Well, my problems started with them right away when they tried not to let us check in early. We had just moved out of our house, desperately needed to shower, and were not that early for check in. There was no reason at all for them not to let us check in early and after I complained for a while they miraculously found a room for us. The person working at the counter was just a jerk. Sorry but he was.
Our room smelled like cigarettes which I hated but we were just so tired and needing to shower we just dealt with it. The heating and air conditioning unit didn't work that great either, some of the time it was way too hot and some of the time it was way too cold. And of course, they were super stingy with the pillows and blankets. We had to ask for more towels, there were barely any in the room. Oh, and one of the elevators were broken so it took forever any time you needed to use it the wait was forever.
We thought it was funny that this was the most expensive hotel out of our three nights on the road and the other two were Marriott's. The room was actually pretty pricey and there was no corporate discount available to me. Strange....pretty much every other hotel chain gives me one. This place was the pits but two stars because the room was clean. Aside from the cigarette smell, I guess. Oh, and they had free internet and free parking which is a rarity in LA.
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I was not a happy camper at this hotel. We booked our stay here through Priceline for a pretty decent price. However, we've gotten much better deals through Priceline for much nicer hotels.
We got to the hotel around 8ish, and went to check in. It was a group of four of us, two rooms, that we had booked together... Same transaction, same credit card, same submission on Priceline. But when they checked us in, they couldn't even get us in the same towers!! When they booked my friends room, after mine, I asked if they could be placed near us. But no, we couldn't, unless we wanted a smoking room, which we definitely did NOT want. So we say goodbye to our friends and make the trek to our room. We passed a Coke machine by the elevators that I'm pretty sure was older than me.
We get up to the room, open the door, and switch on the lights... Nothing. The lights did not work. So my boyfriend holds the door and I turn the bathroom lights on to see. I walk in, and stop in my tracks. There is a KING-sized headboard on the wall. And what's sitting in front of it? A FULL-sized bed. WHAT?! I called my friends to find out if they were experiencing the same bull shit (sorry, I try to refrain from profanity, but there is nothing else I can call this), but they had been booked into a king...
So we go back downstairs to the front desk to request something else, and the woman says they don't have anything for us. Then she says: "We do have a room that is in the king category, but it has a full bed. But it doesn't have a closet, so I don't want to give you that room." And I'm like.. "Well, we dont want a full anyway...". Then she says she might have something in the smoking section. We give in, because there's no way we can sleep on a full sized bed, and apparently queen wasn't even an offer? If it was, she didn't offer it.
So we were put on the second floor, RIGHT off the elevator (and I mean RIGHT off), in a room that overlooks a portion of roof. No.. It doesn't overlook it. It's RIGHT NEXT to it. We open our window, and if we broke it, we could walk out on the roof. Also, there were a ladder conveniently located next to the window, making us feel very safe with the fact that anyone could climb up it and break into our room.
I realize that this whole room thing was partly our fault, because we checked in so late. But, you'd think that at the very least, they could have kept two rooms next to each other for us, seeing as though we booked the rooms together.
I also have to complain about the lack of conditioner in the room. I know not all hotels provide conditioner, but come on! I had to buy a full size bottle of nasty smelling stuff in the gift shop.
This hotel is also incredibly outdated. Actually, it's so outdated that it kind of creeped me out a little.
And when we went to check out on the TV, it wouldn't let us. Didn't let our friends check out from their room, either.
I booked this trip on Priceline, which I have used many times before, and never been (before today) disappointed with. I feel a little ripped off by this place.
OH, one more thing.. We checked out of this place Sunday morning. Right now, there is a pending $50 incidentals fee from Holiday Inn in my account. I called to make sure they weren't charging me for something ridiculous, and that's how I found out it was just an incidentals fee. I know that there are hotels that do this, but it still made me mad in combination with everything else.
This place is okay. It has not been renovated so it's kind of gross. My room had a huge mini fridge, but no microwave. The free parking if you are a hotel guest was great. The free wi-fi was great. It is hard to miss on the Burbank skyline - it is the tallest building in the area and has these crazy green lights. I had just seen Wicked (see Wicked review) and it was pretty funny returning to the hotel like I was going to the Emerald City.
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This place is just fucking gross. The rooms stink, the beds are awful and anytime you get directions to your room that include "Take the elevator to the top floor, go out the door, up the exterior stairs and back inside." RUN.
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