Downtown Los Angeles offers a wide variety of hotels and cost options in proximity to USC. For your convenience, we have prepared a list of mid-priced hotels within 4.5 miles of USC. Please note that reservations are made on a first-come first-serve basis and July is the busiest month for travel to the Los Angeles area. Please also know that hotel prices on the beaches are significantly more. There are thousands of rental homes and individual rooms to rent through Vrbo and Airbnb within a 30 minute drive of USC. We will be offering a small number of discounted rooms at our USC hotel, which is in walking distance of the ICCOPT 2025 conference. The USC Hotel rooms will go fast and you will need to use the link provided below to book. When the link no longer works, that means that all of the discounted rooms at the USC Hotel have been sold out. You may contact the USC hotel directly to check for regular priced room availability. The only conference discounted hotel rate being offered is at the USC Hotel but there are many reputable travel websites that offer similar discounts for the other hotels listed below that are lower in cost.

We do not recommend walking long distances or taking public transportation in Downtown Los Angeles. 

Options for transportation without renting a car: Waymo, Uber, and Lyft.

The ICCOPT Plenary, semi-plenary, parallel speaker sessions and lunches will take place in: Taper Hall, Waite Phillips Hall, the Bovard Auditorium and Founders Park located in section E-4.5 on the map below.

Closest USC for fee parking structures to the ICCOPT main sessions are: Royal Street parking structure and McCarthy Way structure. Located in G-4 and G-5, marked in blue on map below. USC parking is cashless, you will need to pay with a credit card at a parking kiosk (located in each garage) or pay on the parking app. Parking is $20 a day to park at USC.

Conference Early check-in, on Sunday 7/20/25, before the ICCOPT opening Mixer, will be in the courtyard of the USC Viterbi Andrus building located right next to Downey Way parking structure in section A-5 on the map.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT USC IS A TOBACCO FREE CAMPUS*