I will start off by saying that I am super type A. I like details-a lot. I emailed Silvio twice the week of my stay asking for directions, where we should meet him etc. No response. Finally called him the night before we were to arrive and got a hold of him. He said he would text me the information the day we were to arrive. When we landed I text him because I still had not heard from him. This is when he told me he had no parking for that night and that we would have to park at the hotel behind the condo. The hotel was over booked, leaving us with no where to park that night. If you have ever been to Santa Monica you know (which we did not) there is NO WHERE TO PARK OVERNIGHT. We ended up begging the Shore Hotel to let us park there. They were going to charge us $60 for the night. We FINALLY got a parking pass the next afternoon at 2:00 after having to plug a meter every two hours because we were not told when we would get the parking pass.

The parking situation is the reason for my 2 stars. It was super stressful for us and took up a ton of our time. The room was fine. It is super loud (as it says). Like the DJ's speakers are in your bed. There are also a ton of bus noise that never stops. The view and location are amazing. There is no air conditioning, but the breeze off the ocean cools it down and there is a fan which drowns out a tiny bit of the noise. Not super clean, but clean enough.