I spent two weeks staying at Ana and Edgar’s. Great location and clean home. Good value for money but a little uncomfortable.
For that reason we would def only recommend staying here for short stays. There is a slightly uncomfortable energy in the home as there are so many people constantly in and out of the house. Every room is optimised for stays even the garage has been converted. Also, the house is quite dark. The outside doesn’t exactly look like it does in the pictures. The pool was also quite dirty so we weren’t able to swim in it during our stay.
The bathrooms are cute but have tricky personalities, for instance the flush of the smaller toilets needs to be held down for a while before it goes.
Ana and Edgar themselves are nice and quirky hosts (house is saged daily). They are helpful and have some great recommendations about the local area and wider LA.
Some key learnings and observations from our stay:
Ana and Edgar do not drink. Upon arrival we were told that we were free to help ourselves to alcohol that was left behind by previous guests. We were later asked to leave a donation when we checked on this again. After taking two almost empty bottles and leaving a 5 dollar donation Edgar told us that this wasn’t enough of a donation. We felt like this was a little inhospitable and again uncomfortable. A donation is a donation, especially after we had been told to just help ourselves initially.
Breakfast - provided daily, while Ana and Edgar aren’t the celebrity chefs you might be inclined to think they are from the way the home is listed. (Their parents were). They are kind enough to leave a selection of breakfast items every morning for guests to enjoy. However, there was one morning where we were accused of taking a bite of a bagel and throwing it away. This out of the blue exchange was again very uncomfortable and meant that we didn’t really feel the need to partake in breakfast after that.
Overall a good home in a great area, recommend staying for 3-5 days max and be sure to have lots of planned activities outside of the house.