Cheryl Love

Review of Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Well I would give this hotel five stars except for...

Well I would give this hotel five stars except for the fact that I came during the Sundance Film Festival and some other screenwriters thing and I didn't know how formal of a hotel this was! I came on my birthday with my husband and a couple friends for a good time this hotel has a long history and I remember staying there back in the 90s in a beautiful Master Suite with all the amenities! The last time I went they did not have the Cordial welcoming feel that you get at such hotels such as Loews at Highland and Hollywood. At the Loews Hotel you could go in dressed however you felt like and when I went to the ROOSEVELT first time I walk down stairs and I was dressed in nice clothes I just wasn't wearing a dress or anything and was just looking for the bar and went to a restaurant and the lady just right off the bat said you have to be a guest to eat here and needless to say when I made reservations and came down later with my husband and had the lobster and filet mignon as we were next to famous actors and musicians it was only a few of us in the restaurant and the other people in the restaurant were very famous I cannot say who they were but one of them was wearing just a T-shirt and Levi's and the other was in a full mink coat! With more diamonds then I think think Tiffany's has in their store LOL. After dinner we went out and caught our limo and they were all sorts of Paparazzi outside which is not unusual same at Lowe's but this time they were rude I guess they assumed by our looks that we were not anything special and since the Screen Actors Guild was there and everything people made comments like oh everybody thinks they're a movie star actually we were on our way to the scream Awards! Little did they know. But it's just the fact I like a hotel where they welcome you regardless of what you look like because looks are very deceiving! If I wanted to I could have come in with a mink coat and everything else I didn't. But I'll tell you we were in a two bedroom suite with a living room and they even had turndown service and gave you candies on your pillow at night! The only other thing I don't like about it was it was so dark. Now there's lots of ghost stories from this hotel for people who are into that sort of thing but it does give you kind of a forbidding feeling. A little uncomfortable. Maybe it was just that night but a lot of the After parties for the big events such as the Grammys and whatnot are held at the Roosevelt so it's not uncommon for an entire bar to be shut down and only Screen Actors Guild members allowed well the rest of the tenants have to go to the pool to drink or the restaurant when they are open. I don't give it 5 stars because of the rudeness of the staff assuming that I did not live there because how I was dressed when in reality I was staying in one of the most expensive Suites in the hotel. So I'm sure the lady did get talk to about her rudeness with me and I must say the Dakota restaurant as it was called at the time has excellent food and incredible service! Full 5-star service. It's really not shocking to see that their prices are actually cheaper than Lowe's now because Lowe's so much more welcoming and has a lot more on the premises although the Roosevelt has been a long-standing Hollywood who's who a famous people place to go. It's definitely a hotel where you want to stay for more than one night just because there's so much to do and it is so nice.