First off I’ve stayed here many times cause it’s functional like leeches for bloodletting. And I will continue to go back. It’s the intersection between hard working immigrants running a hotel and their near homeless clients. I never know what to expect, only that it’s a study of the other half (not the bill gates kind). It’s noisy, spartan, and somewhat dubious. I would definitely not recommend this place or the are if you are a single female traveler. Anyhow the location is walking distance from Union station and steps from rolled tacos on olvera street. Lots of homeless and parties at night. There is a parking lot in the back and if there is an event nearby just know you will be woken up by cars, alarms and general howling. It borders Chinatown, olvera street and blocks from Japantown. It’s cheap, but I can’t recommend this place without one of those “I told you so”. But as I said I will return cause I’ve showered with mosquito ladened water on tropical outposts sleeping on sweat filled foam mattresses of past travelers. And compared to that this is the ritz.