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Los Angeles: The Custom Hotel is Offering $12 Rooms for Those Who Can't Handle the Holidays

juliana — 2011-12-14T11:33:43-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/customhotel_bedroom.jpg" class="top"> If you're in need of a desperate escape from the holiday season but can't exactly afford to just get up and go, then consider spilling your heart out to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Custom+Hotel/local/788">Custom Hotel</a> in Los Angeles. The hotel is currently giving $12 rooms to the "most deflated of Christmas spirits." People who write in with their holiday sob stories of how they just can't handle their relatives or how they got yet another crappy year-end bonus or how their grandma actually got run over by a reindeer will get to escape to the hotel for just $12. Considering that rooms at the hotel are over $100, that should be a nice little stocking stuffer. Blackout dates for

Los Angeles: What is This at The Custom Hotel in Los Angeles?

juliana — 2011-10-12T15:00:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/whatisthiscustomlights.JPG" class="top">We like to keep it fun but informative here at HotelChatter so our newest series, What is This? is devoted to odd-looking items in hotel rooms that upon first glance look as if they serve only a decorative purpose. But everything happens for a reason, right? And we're here to tell you what these things really do.If you've got an extended layover near Los Angeles International Airport, then you will certainly be able to occupy your time at the newly relaunched <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Custom+Hotel/local/788">Custom Hotel</a> just a few miles up the road which has all sorts of fun airline and airport-themed amenities on site.Just don't while away your time wondering what this doodad is in the window. We're here

Los Angeles: The Custom Hotel Embraces Its Location Near LAX with a Fun Airline-Inspired New Look

juliana — 2011-07-27T12:57:26-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/customhotel_newrooms.JPG" class="top"> Recently, we did a post on hotels that were <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/6/21/16131/3114/hotels/5_Hotels_That_Are_Acting_Like_The_Airlines_With_Extra_Fees">acting like airlines</a> in all the wrong ways with infuriating fees. But the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Custom+Hotel/local/788">Custom Hotel</a> near Los Angeles International Airport is imitating the airlines in a very good way, a sort of mod-60s, golden age of flying way. We toured the airport hotel yesterday to look at the revamping that's been going on since <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/joie de vivre hotels">Joie De Vivre Hotels</a> snapped up the place last year. The biggest change is the concept of Custom Hotel. Previously, under its old owner, the hotel was more of a dark, boutique, too cool kind of property that may have done better in Hollywood rather than near the

Los Angeles: A Modern Day Guestbook: The Custom Hotel's Awesome Photo Booth

juliana — 2011-07-26T17:20:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/customhotel_photobooth1.JPG" class="top"> Photo booths are all the rage these days. People rent 'em for their weddings, restaurants and bars use 'em to lively up their place and of course, hotels have plopped them in their lobbies. But the photo booth we tried out today at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Custom+Hotel/local/788">The Custom Hotel</a> in Los Angeles is all kinds of awesome for another reason. That's because you take a picture of yourself--in a flattering black and white composition--on a MacBook by the front desk and the photo will get shown on a set of TV screens on the wall. Of course you have to be totally ok with having your mug on the wall as people are checking in but we love this

CA: The More JDV Hotels You Visit, the Bigger Discounts You Get for the SoCal Passport

Jennifer Kester — 2010-10-29T10:49:49-05:00

If you're starting to do some Southern California dreaming as the chilly weather settles in, JDV Hotels is offering a deal that could get you up to 40 percent off of a stay at one of its properties.

The Southern California Dreamin' Passport gives you incremental savings for each reservation you make at one of the SoCal brand's hotels—Brentwood's Hotel Angeleno, Venice Beach's Hotel Erwin, L.A.'s Custom Hotel, Huntington Beach's Shorebreak Hotel and Laguna Beach's Pacific Edge Hotel.