Update: As of 2024, Ace DTLA is closed after a 10 year stint. The building is now operating as STILE hotel, and looks eerily similar.
Ace is a brand that has a well-established reputation among boutique-y hotels. With locations in a handful of cities around the world, and branding that is consistent enough to be recognizable but also adaptable to each locale, you know what you’re getting when you book a stay at an Ace, and more or less the demographic you can expect. So you’d think the LA location would be in the heart of the Arts District among other insufferably hip establishments.
Though it is a ways from the happening parts of downtown, the Ace LA is everything you’d want it to be. Occupying a former United Artist movie palace, it is thriving in its new life as a hotel and cultural hub with the grand 1600 seat theater at its heart, with tastefully curated cultural programming.
The rooms are the signature Ace style, the kind where you feel you’re staying in the guest bedroom of a friend with excellent taste. Ranging from lofty standard rooms to spacious suites with private terraces, each room is well-designed in a timeless, cosmopolitan while featuring local art.
The hotel entrance is cozy, considering the grandiose exterior. To one side is the lobby check in desk, and the other the all day cafe. The street level restaurant and cafe has changed and rebranded a couple times over the years, its most recent iteration being Loam. A vibey spot for easy bites from breakfast to dinner, and cheeky golden hour drinks with tables that extend into the sidewalk.
The Upstairs bar is a local gem. Ace boasts perhaps the least annoying option of the many hyped rooftops in this part of town. Never overly crowded, plenty of seats, a casual walk up bar that opens from noon into the evening. A nice view of the city, a small but picturesque pool, shaded by the grand Spanish gothic tower with views of the city beyond. Free wifi and plenty of outlets round it out as an enviable zoom background for remote workers.
the details
| Address | 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles |
| Website | https://www.acehotel.com/losangeles/ |
| Reviews | https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g32655-d5418166-Reviews-Ace_Hotel_Downtown_Los_Angeles-Los_Angeles_California.html |
| @acedtla | |
| Price | $$-$$$ – pretty mid-range boutique hotel prices, generally $200-300+ a night |
| Aesthetic | classic hipster, cultured & cool with a casually air of grandiosity |
Last visited: August 2022
Last updated: July 2023
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