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Two of these properties are under 400 feet from the venue entrance, so your post-ceremony commute is measured in steps, not minutes.

Open-market rooms near the venue go faster than the headcount suggests because many delegates book inside negotiated blocks or loyalty programs, so plan early.

The nearest hotels fill fast for a multi-day event drawing attendees from 65+ countries, so knowing which properties are walkable matters more than any other factor.

GRAMMY Week fills Downtown LA hotels fast, and the difference between a 2-minute walk and a 20-minute one matters most after a late-night gala.

All five picks are under a 10-minute walk, so you can skip the rideshare queue after the show and be back in your room before the crowd clears the block.

Three of the five picks are under a 10-minute walk, so you can skip rideshares entirely and move between sessions and your room on foot.

Two of the five picks are under a 3-minute walk, so your choice comes down to budget and whether you want a full-service hotel or a suite-style room.

Three of the five picks are under a 10-minute walk, so you can drop your costume bag and get back to the floor without losing half your day to transit.

Three of the five picks are within a 5-minute walk, so your commute to the conference floor is shorter than the registration queue.

The finish line is in Century City, so you leave your bag at the hotel and walk to the start. Pick a room within a mile and you skip the pre-race shuttle scramble.

Four of the five are inside the city limits, and the one that is not turns out to be the best pick here for business travelers.

Three hotels, and the choice comes down to whether you need a full conference floor or just a quiet desk and a short walk to Avenue of the Stars.

Culver City's hotel stock is thinner than its studio list suggests, so these four are mostly budget rooms, ranked by what you can walk to.

Plenty of LA boutiques talk about their green credentials without publishing anything, which is why this list is only five hotels long.

The waterfront rooms are the reason to book here and only some of these have one, so check the harbor position before the star rating.

BUR is small enough that a five-minute ride covers most of this list, so the shuttle and the Metrolink stop end up being the real tiebreakers.

Walking down from the Bowl after the encore beats an hour stuck in stacked parking, which is the whole argument for staying on this stretch.

Everything here is a short drive rather than a walk, and the neighborhoods vary enough that the closest option is not automatically the right one.

LGB is small, so the difference between these five is less about the airport and more about whether you want a kitchen or a full-service lobby.

Nearly all of them are on Century Boulevard, and the Automated People Mover changes the math on which end of it you want to be at.

Getting to the gate before the crowd is the whole reason to stay here, and the picks split between full-service hotels by the entrance and cheaper rooms a Metro stop away.

Van Nuys has no terminal hotel, and the stock nearby swings from a full-service plaza to roadside motels, so know which one you've booked.

The pier is loud and the blocks north of it are not, which is what separates these five once the star ratings start matching.

Ocean Front Walk and Abbot Kinney are a 15-minute walk apart and feel like different towns, so pick the one you'd rather wake up in.