My husband and I enjoyed staying here for our first visit to Venice Beach. The apartment is in a great location, close to Washington Blvd which was teeming with restaurants and cafes. The beach and pier were very close. The apartment itself was very Bohemian, perfect for Venice. The bed was extremely comfortable, and the shower had great water pressure. The one thing that was very disappointing was that the bikes that we were told came with the place were not there. I'm not sure what happened, but we ended up having to rent bikes. We just rented them for a couple of hours as it was pretty expensive. We would've had a lot more freedom to explore Venice Beach and Santa Monica if we had the bikes promised in the listing at our disposal. We ended up walking and doing Lyft instead. Aside from this, we had a good experience staying at the cottage.