How recent is "recent?" Within the past month or two?
You asked the same questions on another thread started just a couple of months ago:
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419809
Anyhow, my most recent stay was over the Christmas holiday 2004 and it was fine. I was a Diamond at the time. Got an HHonors floor room and breakfast. Pasadena is a great place to stay, but has relativey few hotels of this caliber. IIRC, the Westin, Sheraton, and Courtyard by Marriott are the only others in the same general vicinity. (I book whatever I can get at a reasonable rate. If the rates in Pasadena aren't reasonable, I stay in Arcadia or Monrovia instead. @:-) )