A real home from home.
Kevin's place was the last of our Air BnB stops on our 2 week trip down the coast from San Francisco. It was the perfect place to end it. It has all the conveniences of home; fully equipped kitchen, coffee machine large tv and surround sound, Netflix, Wifi, shower/bath/jacuzzi, washer, drier, bicycles, parking. We made full use of it all. Even doing all our holiday washing while watching a film, removed that depressing time at the end of your holiday when you get home and have to unpack and wash a pile of stinky clothes. Ours went straight in the wardrobe!
Bikes are really useful, and Kevin's are great for cycling along the front to Santa Monica and beyond. Or nipping out to get some dinner provisions.
Kevin's' place is in a great position, a couple of blocks from the sea front and a couple of blocks the other way from Abbott Kenney Bvd - a must do area.
His comms and suggestions are great and I wouldn't hesitate to come back. In fact if I could find a similar place there to live I'd emigrate in a heartbeat.
If you stay, and you should, I would highly recommend the following that Kevin suggested and we tried:
Abbott Kenney Bvd - day and night. Has some great healthy eating restaurants, juice bars and lots of cool shops. Really liked Kreation and Lemonade for food. Note some Friday evenings the road fills with food trucks -amazing atmosphere and great food.
Rose Cafe - Rose St, trendy cafe, bar, clearly inhabited by Google workers (next door) in the week.
Whole Foods Market and Erewhon - we just don't have (food) supermarkets like these in the U.K. for quality raw and prepared foods. We found eating out everyday expensive, and you can help yourself in these places to fantastic cold and hot foods for a fraction of the cost. I wish we had found these sooner...
Main Street - towards Santa Monica.
If you are looking for a place in Venice, it would be hard to better Kevin's.