"First off Hollywood is not what you expect. I’ve never in my life seen so many homeless people and I saw no one there to help them. We have stayed in the heart of Times Square, downtown New Orleans, downtown Baltimore, downtown DC I’ve never seen anything like it. There is human feces on the street. Of course not the W‘s fault but that is your surroundings at this location. Starting on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend through Monday there were no less than 300-400 people in the lobby (and lines of 20 somethings coming in both entrances all headed to the rooftop bar and pool which made the rooftop area in accessible to the paying hotel guests, this was all weekend day and night. There are four elevators and a service elevator. One was set aside for the party VIPs and at times sat empty while hotel guests and the rest of the partygoers had to wait in line for the other lifts. We waited to get on and off because when the doors opened there were so many people standing in the lobby, you couldn’t move. We had to call multiple times for room service because frankly there were some times when we were afraid to leave our room, there was one day where we could not get our room cleaned, there was constant weed smell starting early in the morning, and of course cars screeching out of the garage entrance until three or four in the morning. There is next to no police presence in Hollywood, I think they’ve given up. The W had no regard for their paying guests but catered to the 20 somethings. The W did get their views on Instagram though, people posted the fight that broke out at the rooftop party, a young man was cold cocked and fell into the pool, he would have drowned if others hadn’t helped him out. In retrospect, I wouldn’t stay on Hollywood Boulevard at all."
