Hotel Indigo Los Angeles Downtown

One of the biggest hotel pools downtown, on a fourth-floor rooftop deck with poolside games like basketball and beanbag toss, right at L.A. LIVE and a short hop from Exposition Park.

A landscaped pocket park on the FIDM campus with a small playground, a mosaic clock tower and lawns, a calm break between the South Park towers.

Slide a tray down the line, watch the noodles get cut to order and let kids pick tempura at the heat-lamp station. Fast, shareable and fine with noodle spills.

Kids love the glass elevators riding the outside of the six-story atrium, and there's an outdoor pool deck for downtime between downtown sights.

A two-minute ride on the world's shortest railway, two orange 1901 funicular cars climbing Bunker Hill between Hill Street and Grand Avenue.

Kids check in to a welcome backpack with binoculars, an activity book and snacks, plus milk and cookies delivered on the first night. The heated outdoor pool is on the fourth floor.