Good place to stay and as advertised, it is close to the beach and very close to Santa Monica (lots of tourist-y things to do). The place was a little hard to find initially and if you're traveling with a baby, it's probably not the best choice. The portable AC noise kept waking up our baby but if you're a couple traveling around, this is a great place to stay. It is very clean and we had all the towels and ammenities we needed for a good trip. It would have been a 4 star but I didn't expect the noise level to be so bad. Finally turned off the AC the last night and we all got some sleep (the neighbors probably did too! Sorry neighbors!). Street noise wasn't actually that bad so don't deter your stay here because of that.