Overall, this is a really nice place. I’ll do my best to provide a thorough review with pros and cons.
For starters, I was a little shocked when I first got in because I was in a 3-bedroom home and it was advertised as 5. However, there are two units connected to one another. One in the front facing the street and the other around the left side, behind the first unit. This is really cool for maybe a couples trip, a group of 3+ people so everyone can have their own rooms, or just 2 introverted people or people who need their own space.
Pros: the home is not too far from anything! DTLA is about 10 or so minutes away, there’s food trucks and gas stations right in the neighborhood for a late night snack or drinks or whatever. Of course LA is huge, but my friends and I had no issues getting to Hollywood, the beaches, DTLA, etc. There’s a bed in each room so you don’t have to share with anyone as long as there’s not more than 5 people. I love the security of the place. 4 women in a city and home we’ve never been in and we felt completely safe! There’s s a lock on the gate where you can park a car and gated doors on each unit where you need a code to get in. I loved this! There are pots/pans there so we could cook if we wanted to. There were TVs in every room. They proved a notebook of WiFi information as well as restaurant suggestions. There’s a really cute sitting area in the back of the house with a table and chairs for cards, drinks, chats, whatever. Both units had a bathroom and kitchen. There were plenty of towels.
Cons: I really only had 2 issues. One was the house wasn’t as clean as I hoped. When we first arrived, the bathroom in the main unit wasn’t clean and the shower curtain was dirty. HOWEVER, I did let the host know and they came the next morning to clean that bathroom and replace the shower curtain. The host told me that the units are deep cleaned, but maybe it’s because I clean houses part time there were a lot of things my friends and I weren’t okay with. There was hair in almost every bed, there was dust/dirt on most of the surfaces and pretty much all the baseboards. There were some stains on the duvet covers that made us a little uncomfortable. The floors were really dusty and needed to be mopped thoroughly. But with a thorough deep clean before and after every stay, I don’t think there would be much to address with this place.
The only other con is that the bathrooms and shower spaces are really small. Like really small. Big enough to get done what you needed, but small enough to make you a bit uncomfortable. But that’s it!