Not really a category for this

[Rusty tweezers]

Going to be in Pasadena in early September and wondering if anyone knows first hand of any hotels that don't have people camping in front of it. Price doesn't matter.

 

[Havasu]

Pasadena is a completely different beast than the City of Los Angeles. You won't find homeless, transient, vagrant, unhoused, or any other name to make these hobo bums more appealing, camping on the streets. Any nice hotel along Colorado Blvd. Would be fine.

 

[Rusty tweezers]

Thank you sir. Cause we've been looking at reviews and not many are good lol. Your a big help brother.

 

[Havasu]

I'd recommend staying in Arcadia, 5 minutes east. If near the 210, there are some great hotels and great food joints. One of my favorite hotels is the Doubletree, on Huntington Drive.

 

[Eastenerwesterner]

If you head west on the 210, La Canada is nice but no hotels I can remember. But if you get up to my old neck of the woods, Sunland/Tujunga don't stay there . Wouldn't recommend Glendale either from what I have been reading I would stay in Pasadena

Now if you want restaurants quite a few in good local in Pasadena.
In Arcadia, the old Spaghetti Factory was one of my wife's favorites kinda a chain that died or is in the process.
In Eagle Rock, Casa Bianca. Kinda like a Pinks Hot Dogs of pizza and Italian food. Must be a dozen pics of Ed Asner on their wall of celebs.
In Burbank, Pinocchio's. Decent Italian food. Still in the same decor as Colombo and Quincy episodes. I swear their food line was the inspiration for Seinfeld's Soup Nazi Decor.

Hope this helps give you the tourist flavor and decent places to eat

 

[Rusty tweezers]

A lot of the hotels are full for the dates we need doubletree and others we found one that looks nice? 8 miles from destination holiday inn express, Monterey park?? I know nothing about this one. And I am Caucasian. but I am. Thanks ahead for the help

 

[Rusty tweezers]

A lot of the hotels are full for the dates we need doubletree and others we found one that looks nice? 8 miles from destination holiday inn express, Monterey park?? I know nothing about this one. And I am Caucasian. but I am. Thanks ahead for the help

Says it's the heart of East LA of course I'm relating it to the Cheech and Chong days

 

[Rusty tweezers]

A lot of the hotels are full for the dates we need doubletree and others we found one that looks nice? 8 miles from destination holiday inn express, Monterey park?? I know nothing about this one. And I am Caucasian. but I am. Thanks ahead for the help

Well after dealing with their internet outage I managed to get in at the recommended Doubletree they had one room left for the dates. Thank goodness! I was not looking forward to experimenting lol.

 

[Havasu]

Way better than being anywhere in Monterey Park, unless you can read the Mandarin business signs. Hell, my friend is the chief of police there, and have no problem telling him this.

 

[Rusty tweezers]

Yeah I was really hoping we'd get in a DT , thank goodness we did. Everything else was booked up for those days in September. Especially if you get close to the stadium. I sure do appreciate you guys giving me the leads much appreciated!