Holiday Inn Los Angeles LAX airport

What is your IHG rewards status?
Diamond

Were you (or for multi-stayers are you generally) happy with the hotel/stay?
Yes

Which room did you book and which upgrade did you receive?
Booked 2 queen standard. Interestingly I received an email from IHG saying “we upgraded your room”, but at the end it was still the same. Didn’t expect any upgrade anyway.
For once that I didn’t book a rate with breakfast, I was only offered the choice of points or drinks as welcome amenity, so reminded them that as diamond I could also get breakfast.

How are the rooms?
Fine. Furniture was rather recent, lighting was good. Bathroom was older, the bath tub floor felt like it’d give away soon (shower above bath)

How is the exec. lounge?
N/A

What was good and what was bad?
Nothing special either way. It’s a low/mid-range airport hotel and should be seen as such. Everything was adequate, breakfast particularly was not great, but the room was <150$ / night including taxes so it met expectations.
The only thing to be wary about is the airport shuttle. It’s only every 30 min, by the time ours arrived we had seen two shuttles for most other hotels. And then the bus wasn’t big enough for everyone waiting.

Value for $ or Priority Club Points? Would you return?
Probably not, see shuttle bus. Considering a Uber from the airport was 40$ (for 3-4 km), it may be better to put that money in a better hotel if arriving at peak hour (which I assume it was, around 19:30).