Overall summary - A mini-home/escape room mash up. A blend of unique architecture and minor, and some major, inconveniences made for a mixed experience.
The Good - Gorgeous view especially at night, unique architecture, lots of parking, the sauna was great, communication with the owners was fluid and they were quick to respond to me and helpful when some issues came up. Entry into the suite using a Bluetooth app was explained clearly and worked flawlessly. The bed was very comfortable, as was the other furniture. It was fun to find some of the not-so-obvious storage spots along the stairwell and kitchen. Supplied bathrobes were a nice touch. The owners were accommodating when I asked to check in a little early. Going to sleep and waking up while surrounded by the natural light and city scape was very pleasing. You feel like you are in a different life, like you are a celebrity at some ritzy downtown L.A. spot.
The Neutral - Some parts of this unit was like trying to figure out a puzzle, not in a fun way. Things that should be simple, like adjusting the water temperature in the bathtub, seemed unnecessarily complex. For example we had a problem figuring out the oven, so we referred to the welcome binder. The binder says (paraphrasing) "look at the oven manual in the welcome binder for oven instructions", but they weren't in the binder. A puzzle mystery lol. Other things that might seem as unique design ends up being a detriment, for example the way the water drains in the shower. At first there was no obvious drain and I noticed that the water level was getting high. There are 2 thin slits in the floor of the shower for drainage that don't drain fast enough, if you don't take anything but a short shower the water will start to spread all over the whole bathroom floor since there is no barrier between the two. There are multiple examples like this where function was annoyingly sacrificed for a design style. The toilet room smells bad, looking at past reviews this seems to have been a problem for a while. In general there isn't enough light, especially in the bathroom and shower. At nighttime I couldn't see the floor in the bathroom with all of the available lights turned on.
The Bad - Temperature control. It was March and around 0 Celsius outside but it was sunny out and inside it was in the high 20s, very uncomfortable. There is no way to vent out hot air and the A/C had a hard time keeping up. The owners were helpful in making suggestions on how to improve that, though again going back to the puzzle, it shouldn't be that complex to manage temperature control but it took adjusting 2 separate thermostats (they were both located near the floor and not obvious to find necessarily) and turning off breakers for the heating vents that are located by the windows that surround the unit for them to stop heating the space when it was already hot. I didn't anticipate how uncomfortable it would be on a sunny day, there is no shade in the living spaces and trying to do something simple like work on my laptop was difficult because of this. Bring your sunglasses.