Everything was exactly as advertised.
We parked in Parking structure #1 on 4th St. between Arizona Ave. and Wilshire.
The check in instructions worked perfectly. We left our stuff in the car, ran down , retrieved the keys and found the room. I went back to the parking structure and moved the car to the loading zone in front of the building (Since it is a City owned garage, there was no charge for short time it was parked). We unloaded our bags into the lobby real quick and my wife took them up the elevator while I put the car back in the garage. Just like that! we were done!
After we freshened up we walked 3 blocks to the waterfront and then 3 blocks over to the Santa Monica Pier.
On our next trip we walked down the very nice 3rd Ct promenade to the Downtown Santa Monica mall and across to the pier.
We rode bikes down to Venice Beach and cruised around until time to see the sunset.
After a great dinner and drinks at a nice outdoor pub on 3 Ct, we retired to our room, had a nice shower and a good night’s sleep.