Places to stay in Los Angeles

Depends what you want to see LA is massive and sprawling.
Hollywood can be done in a day but it's a bit seedy .
We usually stay out near Disneyland where there's lots of competition with the masses of hotels lining the road to Mickeys place but it's a bit far for Hollywood.

How about Santa Monica? So much nicer than staying in LA.

womderful place to stay:beer:

In your situation I'd stay in Anaheim, have your day at Disney and do a Greyline tour picking up from your Anaheim hotel for a tour that does the Hollywood high spots and drops you back. I really would want to avoid driving myself in LA I thought it was horrendous.

Santa Monica is lovely but lovely equals expensive hotels, unless you want to consider Airbnb it's a bit of a budget buster. We usually book our Anaheim hotels through Priceline or Hotwire as anything in that area is suitable three star and above . (With Hotwire although you don't get the hotel name til you have paid it's usually pretty easy to work out which one it is going to be using various helpful websites.) we got the Crowne Plaza in Anaheim with Priceline two years running was quite funny cos the valet remembered us despite not having a car the second trip and thought we were loyal regulars (remembered me because whilst sitting outside the hotel there was a hefty earthquake and all the tourists panicked and I strolled over and said "as you guys don't look worried I'm guessing we don't need to ."...he laughed and invited us into their office to see the readings as they were broadcast on local TV. It was startling to see how strong the aftershock was. ) we still went to Disney btw , when we got there all the rides were closed whilst they safety checked them all, within an hour everything was back to normal and we also got free passes for another day to make up for the disappointment which we used the following summer.

A poster mentioned Super 8 . A lot of Brits turn their noses up at motels , in many cases they are ideal , clean, easy to access the freeway , include breakfast , for the time you spend in your hotel on this kind of holiday they are ideal and better than an expensive hotel with lots of facilities you never use because you are out and about anyway.

I loved staying at Orchid Suites just behind Hollywood & highland metro station when I went LA

Didnt have a car though