My stay here was quite interesting. Although the hosts were amazing and very quick to respond, there were an array of things that I noticed and experienced during this stay.
I’m not super familiar with LA, but east LA and where the home is particularly located caught me a bit off guard. The street to get in and out is essentially a 1 way but it’s soooo narrow. It’s very hard for bigger cars and if you have more than 2 cars you will need to park on the street and walk to the house.
The garage is detached from the house so you must be able to lift and carry all your luggage or belongings up to the house. Which they did initially ask in their screening call for all guests. They call to ask why you are traveling and making sure you’re okay with the stairs up to the home as well as inside.
We paid over a grand to stay here for just 2 nights and I figured that the house would be equipped with extra towels, extra paper towels, garbage can inside the bathrooms, but no. It was minimally stocked. 2 big towels and a face towel for each of the 3 rooms. I also was very surprised that there was no trash can I’m the master bath. I had to collect my trash and bring it downstairs to the main garbage in the kitchen. I was told that they will supply what is necessary and everything else additional will need to come out of the guests expense (which I totally understand to an extent) we only had a few paper towels left in the roll and the owner was nice enough to come and drop some more off! That was nice of her.
Unfortunately we ran into tech issues with the electronic keypad. It was 90+ degrees outside and the keypad wanted to malfunction and not press one of the numbers to grant access to the house. We were locked out for about 1-1.5 hours but we were offered solutions which I greatly appreciate but it was all more of an inconvenience for us to have to check in somewhere else etc. luckily the locksmith was able to reset the keypad so we finally got in but unfortunately missed an event we had to make so that sucked.
The neighbors are so loud. Loud music, partying all the time, the dogs across the street will also keep you up and bark throughout the day. Noisy neighborhood. You’re not allowed to have parties in this house which luckily for me, I don’t party anymore but you’re forced to listen to the other parties going on.
Beautiful big home and amazing hosts, but there were just a lot of things that didn’t go so well for us.