Los Angeles

The Marquis is off Sunset, the other four are on it, and the guest scores won't tell you which is which before you arrive.

The answer flips if your trip stays along the Metro B and E lines. Here's which places you can reach without a car and which you can't.

The five picks are ranked by how far you actually walk to the Figueroa entrance, with meeting space breaking the ties between the close ones.

LAX hotels give you meeting space and a fast exit, but Downtown is a long haul. Here's how five of them compare on both.

Four picks, from a Fairmont on Avenue of the Stars to mid-range rooms on Olympic and a Peninsula just over the line, plus how to get around when the nearest train is a ride away.

Five budget LA hotels picked on guest score and transit, and the best-connected is a 5-minute walk from the B Line.

Downtown covers a lot of ground and the block matters, so here's where each of the five is relative to Grand, Figueroa and the arena.

These four hotels stay at 4 stars or below, each from a brand with a sustainability program, and we say what we could and could not confirm about each.

Each of these five has a real pool, and the table shows what stands behind its green claim, from a Four-Green Key rating to a brand program.

El Segundo has its own Metro K Line stations and a quieter grid than the Century Boulevard strip, so the real choice is whether you want to be near the aerospace campuses or the LAX terminals.

All five list EV charging, four hold LEED Gold or Silver, and 1 Hotel West Hollywood reports an Energy Star score of 95.

We list fifteen Green Key hotels here, from budget stays near LAX to five-stars in Santa Monica and Marina del Rey.

Pick by sub-brand first: a Conrad and a Hampton Inn in the same city are built for completely different trips.

The closest pick is essentially on the Boulevard, which is either the point of your trip or the thing that keeps you up.

Value here means what you get for the rate rather than the lowest rate, which is how a Sunset Strip landmark lands next to a Hollywood suite hotel with free snacks.

What you're really buying here is late-night food and a rail station within ten minutes, and the five picks are mostly mid-range.

Downtown and Hollywood have more last-minute rooms, while West Hollywood holds its rates even on slow nights, so pick your side of the city first.

Thirteen LEED hotels in Los Angeles, from Certified to Platinum, and what separates a Gold from a Certified before you let the plaque pick your hotel.

All five have a kitchen or kitchenette and more room than a standard hotel room, which is what makes a 30-night stay in LA workable rather than expensive.

Los Feliz itself has almost no hotel stock, so these run from its edges down to Sunset and Vermont, a short hop from the Greek Theatre and the Griffith Park trailheads.

Nine brands under one loyalty program means the badge on the door tells you more about the room than the star rating does.

Stadium parking is the thing to avoid, and these five, in Echo Park, Chinatown, or Downtown, put you a short ride from the gate. The closest is a 17-minute walk.

Only three hotels are genuinely close, none of them let you skip the tram, and the choice is more about the drive up the 405 than the mileage.

The Historic Core changes character after dark, so the walk back from dinner is worth weighing alongside the walk to the market.

You can't stay next to the Observatory, so the measure that counts is how far you walk to the shuttle stop at Vermont and Sunset.

Three of these hotels are on Century Boulevard, handy for LAX, and the closest, on Prairie Avenue, is a 12-minute walk from SoFi.

General admission at The Broad is free but timed, and walk-ups, available daily, reward anyone staying close enough to just walk over and try again.

If you're connecting to Amtrak or the Metro A Line, the walk over matters more than the star rating, and these five are ordered with that in mind.

Pasadena works as a base if your trip leans east, and all four of these are close enough to Old Town that dinner doesn't need a car.

Weight caps are where most bookings fall apart, so the fees and limits we could confirm are spelled out before you get to the nice-dog-bed part.

Two of these four have real meeting floors and a walk to the B Line. The other two work for a simple working trip, so go in knowing what you're getting.

Silver Lake has almost no hotel stock, which is why this list comes to two picks, one on Santa Monica Boulevard and one on Sunset, both inside the neighborhood line.

Hotel gym photos flatter, so each pick here says what the hotel itself documents about its gym.

A full-size fridge and a real stovetop is a narrow filter in LA, and it lands you mostly in apartment-style rooms around Hollywood and West Hollywood.

Valet is standard at this end of the market, so the details that matter are the daily fee and whether self-park exists at all.

Guest-only hours and day-pass crowds decide how much of the pool you actually get, so access rules are covered here alongside the setting.

Plenty of LA hotels sell a poolside bar as a rooftop, so this list starts by throwing out the four best-known names that do exactly that.

The month you pick changes what you pay and how long you wait in line, so this runs through all twelve, plus the events that book out the city.

The tips that matter most are the boring ones about where to base yourself and when to stop fighting traffic and call a car.

The first call is whether this is an urgent care question or an ER one, and we've grouped the options by neighborhood so you're not searching mid-crisis.

Safety in LA is a block-by-block question rather than a city-wide one, and the neighborhood table is the part worth reading before you book.