Originally Posted by GUWonder
In major cities I often find there is one hotel better for hosting high-security guests and then there are not-so-great hotels for "meeting" such needs.
One example is the Century Plaza in Los Angeles. With consultation by the Secret Service (remember that it was only a few years after the killing of JFK), the hotel was designed in the mid-1960s with special features, such as an easily-secured underground entrance, so that presidential limos could be loaded and unloaded out of public eye. I remember attending an anti-Vietnam rally there in 1974 when Gerald Ford was staying there - people were waiting for Ford's limo to emerge into the Avenue of the Stars, however, word soon spread that he had already gone out the private exit.