Coral Sands Motel (Closed Permanently)

5 nights in Coral Sands

First of all the major points. Don't let the lobby fool you. The room is remodeled and clean. I imagine they'll get to the lobby sooner or later. Customer service/Maid service is excellent. The cleaning lady is the sweetest little thing. Center court yard is really cute and well maintained. Lots of out door seating and a picnic table, candles at night and pipped music in the court yard. The pool is large and deep and the hot tube is on and ready 24/7. Apparently some of the local gays do use this place as a motel/bath house so yes you will notice some cruising. But noticing and feeding into the energy are two very diffenet things. If it's not your cup of tea just ignore and they'll get the msg real quick. No one bothered me once I sent the signal I'm not here for that. No reason we can't co-exist though. You do you and I'll do me ;-)> Every one who stayed here was nice and there was never any noise issue late at night. I like this place because it's in a great location whether you have a car or not. I flew into LAX took the Fly Away shuttle to Union Station and hopped on the Red Line to Western Ave/Hollywood Blvd. and walked half a block to the motel. It's also situated right next door to a grocery store, a few fast food locations and Thai Town. If you like Thai food Mmm M! Central Hollywood is to subway stops away and dwn twn L.A. is a hop skip away. When I wanted to go to West Hollywood I simply walked 10min. dwn Western to Santa Monica Blvd. and hopped on the 4 did the reverse coming back. Although they have free parking f.y.i. 5days with out a car was simply not an issue. If you're gonna get hung up on other men doing their thing that has nothing to do with you then probably not a good idea to stay here. But if you don't mind or perhaps you care to join check it out.

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I've visited the Coral Sands about eight times over the last 15 years and loved the occasional raunchy evenings. Two free (good) porn channels and reasonably well looked after although prices have risen in 2009 to $90. Now, NO PUBLIC nudity is on the sign-in sheet. The reason seems to be to allow straights to stay - although there was only one couple when I was here in JAn 09. The sauna is also closed (or being refurbished?), but spa and pool remain. On the brighter side, the place is clean, rooms are large with King beds, TV and remote actually works on about a dozen channels, free Wi-Fi (good signal). This area was a dog when I first started coming, but in recent years the whole surrounding area has come alive with two large shopping centers in the same block, a choice of about four great Thai restaurants just minutes walk away, ATMs, Ralph's, Starbucks, Chinese next door, and excellent parking at the hotel. Its also close to Hollywood and about a fifteen minute drive to West Hollywood. Like the San Vicente, this is one of the LA's two classic gay hotels. One only hopes that the odd straight customer's wont deter its historic clientele. Deserves more gay custom.

Older cruisy hotel in Hollywood

This is not the Waldorf Astoria by any means - it's a cruisy older basic hotel in the heart of Hollywood. Yes it is a little worn, but I had a great stay there. Porn on 2 channels daily. Nice pool & hot tub area, where guys cruse. There are some drugs so be careful. I saw a guy smoking meth in his room.

one star too many

the ad pictures are old and deceiving. this is a broken, run down place with a lockdown feel and heavy smell of odor-hiding spray. it's creepy-cruisy with lots of hangers-on and a rehab feel. affordable gay los angeles should be able to do better than this place.

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Great safe place for the Gay community as well as the trans community