Mary Ann's place was a perfect home-away-from-home for me. I drove over from my house across town, to do a week-long get away.
There are many restaurants and a big mall within easy-to-pretty-easy walking distance, and a funkier retail district an easy drive or longer walk away. The beach and Bluff Park -- a fairly long walk and easy drive -- are gorgeous with a wonderful walking/running/biking path and loads of different places to work out, picnic, lie about . . .
The apartment itself is lovely -- lots of windows and natural light, great shower, comfortable bed and couch, and a great little kitchen (I'm not a gourmet cook -- but I was able to make more food than I could eat while I was there).
The only caveat: there's no central heat, and it was chilly a couple days I was there. The Dyson space heater worked well -- but if you had more than one person who wanted to be in two different parts of the apartment, one of them might need a lot of blankets (which are in the closet).
I had a great visit and would definitely do it again!!