The Ritz Carlton Residences at LA Live

I moved into the Ritz Carlton in April. The service is 5 star just as you would expect and the views are amazing. Without a doubt the best residence downtown. The WP24 Restaraunt is also pretty awesome.

This place is not good for living. One of my good friend lives there because he goes to USC and I visit there very often. Every time I visit I need to use valet and there are no self parking lot for this place. Valet boys are very friendly but the car comes out so slow. I had to wait half an hour once. They should do something about that.

Being the #mayor on foursquared I love the place and have been here for over 2 years:) #mayor #ritzcity @biggutz

6 months later I am finally getting around to updating this review. For starters, the Ritz Carlton employees have been courteous, friendly and extremely helpful. The units themselves look great and most have a beautiful view of either Downtown LA, Staples, or west LA. The complimentary breakfast is not perfect (they are planning some menu changes) but it’s nice to have around and a great way to meet neighbors.
The gym (s) are my favorite places to hang out, which is almost always empty during the hours that i go (between 10am and 3pm.) It’s kept fairly clean along with complimentary towels and water.
The pool area is nice but a little too small during busy weekends. It’s slightly heated but fairly shallow. So far I’ve only seen the bar at the pool open once, but perhaps I just don’t go to the pool very often.
*** the bad stuff ***
Outside of that, we’ve had some pretty bad luck with the unit itself. within the first month our bedroom bathroom ceiling partly collapsed due to a leak from the unit above us. The Ritz was quick to respond, but our unit was a mess for the next few weeks during the repair process. They also comped us a room at the Marriot for a few nights.
Once, as I was exiting the bathroom, i felt the lock break and i was trapped in the bathroom for about 40 minutes. I thought it was hilarious but it was a good thing my sister was just outside to call for help, otherwise there was no way i could have broken my way out and people passing our front door is a rarity so yelling my way out would not have worked well! Again, a whole crew of people responded very quickly and took me being stuck seriously. They needed to remove part of the wall to reach locking pin to get me out.
The bathroom sinks block the medicine cabinets from opening, so they nailed the medicine cabinets shut. smaaaarrt. we’re going to replace the sinks but medicine cabinets will remained nailed shut. may need to replace those too. and the lighting. ugh lets face it, the bathrooms are not very nice looking.
The «airless» laundry dryers suck by design. don’t expect anything to be dry in less than several hours.
Other residents at this time are probably annoyed that there is a lot of re-​construction going on in the 27^th and 28^th (common area) floors.
Another annoyance is not having any grass nearby to take your dogs to pee/​poop. The nearest is a bit of a walk, toward not-​so friendly area.
(I apologize for the poor formatting of this review)