I had a rather longish overnight stopover at LAX before continuing my journey and therefore just decided to stay close to the airport.  When choosing for a reasonably priced property within the Hilton group, I came across this property which is part of the Curio Collection - which I was surprised to see that it is located close to LAX instead of the usual locations (e.g. Beverly Hills area and the likes).

Location

The hotel is located just about 2 mins by car from Terminal 1/6 (basically just after the area with those afamous cylindrical light structures of LAX).  Maybe for guests with light luggage, you might even be able to walk from the terminals to the hotel.  I am not sure how long is the wait time for the shuttle (based on some of the reviews I've read), but I waited less than 10 mins before the shuttle arrived at the pick up area.  (According to the hotel staff on my return, the shuttles are supposed to go every 15 mins).  The shuttle serves both the Homewood Suite (which is in the same complex) and the parking garage just behind the hotel.

Other than that, I would say for the usual tourist or even for the business traveller (unless you're there for work at one of the companies at the airport area), there is not much around the hotel.  Parking at the hotel (or rather the garage close to the hotel) cost approx 40$ per day, which is quite expensive.  There is a Subway and a car rental agency within the same complex of the hotel.

Check In

I did an online check-in and received my digital key, so basically upon arrival at the hotel, I skipped the front desk and walked straight to the elevator and my room.  

I was actually quite impressed with the lobby area -shared by both H hotel and the Homewood Suite.  It was modern, chique and very welcoming with lots of lights.  For me it was my style of interior deco.

Access to the elevator and room is controlled by your digital key (or physical key).  The elevator is the new generation type of smart elevator where you first select your floor and it will direct you to the right elevator.  For me this seems to be a good smart system - although I am not sure in busy times, how efficient it will be.  

Room

The room in general was spacious and well appointed.  Decoration was modern and to a certain extend quite plain and simple.  After the lobby, I would say I was a bit let down by the decoration in the room - though it was functional.

I was not sure if I received an upgrade, but the room did have views towards the airport (I choose this room myself based on the map during online check-in).  The reason I was not sure if I received an upgrade or not was because the hotel does sell rooms with an airport view for a higher price - so not sure if my room was the more expensive airport view room or just a less nicer airport view room.  

There was 2 bottles of water provided in the room (not sure if this was due to my status or a norm), coffee/tea making facilities and a laptop size safe.  For the coffee, it was a Nespresso machine, however, I guess for cost saving purposes, the hotel provided some generic type of pods - which is far inferior to the real Nespresso pods.  I had to use the decaffineated pods (which were the real Nespresso pods) and the generic pods to get some taste.

There was a long working desk and a nice daybed type sofa.  There was also a small sofa at the foot of the bed.  The bed for me was just right - not too hard or soft.  Temperature control in the room was very good - and for me the most important, even at high fan setting, it was very quiet which is quite seldom (at least compared to Hilton's) so hopefully this is a norm for especially newer hotels.

The bathroom size was on ok - there was a walk-in shower (sadly with again a fixed shower head - norm in the US) with the toilet situated in a closet size area next to it.  There was 2 sinks.  Toiletries were from Temple Spa.  Temperature and shower presuure was good.

Internet and TV options were ok - reasonable internet speed and the TV had quite a few options including connecting your own device (which I did not try out).  

As for sleep quality - it was a mix bag, mainly due to noise isolation.  I did get lots of external noise coming in, which I was quite surprised as I had expected that if you build a hotel next to an active runway and a major road, this would have been taken into consideration.  Nearly the whole night long you can hear planes taking off - especially the bigger planes.  The noise from road traffic was audible too, but this was limited to certain hours as it died down eventually into the late night/early morning.  I am not sure how it would be if the room was facing away from the airport runway view. From the hotel inside itself, I did not really hear much noise nor any from the room next door - good wall isolation?

Dining

As an elite member, I was offered a 10USD credit for breakfast if I had chosen outside of the list of options for the HHonors breakfast items (1 item).  Breakfast was at the main restaurant of the hotel - which was also very nicely decorated.  Service was friendly.

Only small complain here is I find it so terrible that every single item gets monetized.  For example, in the list of items for HHonors member, it is only the food it complimentary and if you want any drinks, you pay for it - charging 3.50$ for a cup of tea is to me basically daylight robbery - even if taking into account, the labour, electric cost, tea bag cost, etc.  The same for the coffee.  

Overall

All in all, I would say this is quite a unique boutique like hotel for an airport property - especially with the well thought off decoration around the whole lobby area - which I am sure will age nicely.  
Other than that, I did see that they had what was called a transfer room/lounge which I suspect might be used by guests having a late flight but can't stay in their room without additional charges to have a shower before heading off to the airport for their flight.  I did not ask about the usage of this facility or purpose of the transfer lounge.  

For me I will return to the propert if the price is right, but will most probably choose another room away from the runway (sad since it is nice to have that view, but since hotel is for a good nights rest, choices have to be made).