Overall great visit, here's the good... I stayed for a week and paid for parking which was two blocks away. My room was a Queen with Kitchenette on the second floor. The view was windows in another building but the windows let in great light and the curtains made it dark at night. The fridge was mid-size, perfect for groceries with a freezer too. There was a microwave and basic coffee maker. I brought a blender. The bed was comfortable with 4 pillows and when I checked, there was no sign of bed bugs and the linens were clean. There was a ceiling fan, but it required the light to be on as well. The closet was a walk in, and I was able to tuck away my luggage, unpack a bit to hang some dress clothes and settle in for the week. The was an iron with a steam function and a ironing board. The bathroom had a medicine cabinet and a pedestal sink, plus a hair blow dryer. There was not vent fan but there was a small window that I could open. The host was very responsive via the AirBnB app.
Nearby included a mini market with some groceries and drinks, a smoke shop with souvenirs, and restaurants including tacos, Thai, wine bar, steak house and a few others which I didn't have time to explore. The block has nice strings of white bulb lights and flowering trees. It's a fun part of town. Lots of people walking their dogs. There were unsheltered people and some of those standard LA big city things, but overall this was definitely a neighborhood of homes. On my day off, I drove an hour down the PCH to Laguna and enjoyed some beaches there.
The not so good... the place needs a deep clean. The bathroom floor was gross but I bring slippers to hotels and I've seen Hiltons that were worse. The closet floor also needed to be cleaned, there was long black hair all over it, which isn't my hair color. The wall tile needs a cleaning too, and who knows when the washable shower liner was washed although it looked okay. The bed and kitchen were clean, so I think it's mostly that the place needs to be mopped. Like I said though, I've seen plenty of "nice" hotels that weren't cleaned very well and this was better, just not great. Also, the remote for the AC/heater was difficult to use but I was eventually able to get it to do what I needed it to do. And a couple of nights there was some loud activity on the street around 10 pm for about 15-30 minutes, but that's city life and it didn't last long.
Overall a great deal and fun location.