This cottage checks all the boxes!!
We drove to LA for a 10 nite stay at the 5124 Le Longpre cottage in East Hollywood (Little Thailand/Little Armenia) in mid-December, 2021. We were completely satisfied with the detached cottage. There are 3 or 4 steps to enter the cottage.
The apartment has a private parking space in a gated lot, it is in a quiet location, the rooms are large, everything works, the “memory foam” mattresses are in excellent condition and are very comfortable. 4 pillows per bed. There are lots of electric plugs, including plugs close to the beds.
There’s a 32 inch television in the living room and a smaller TV in one of the bedrooms The wifi worked great the whole time we were there. A couple of previous reviews mentioned odor from the drains but this appears to have been fixed—no odor during our 10 day stay.
Plenty of light, lots of very hot water, there’s a heater in the dining room and a portable heater in each of the bedrooms (it got into the low 40’s while we were there) and air conditioners in each of the bedrooms and in the living room.
We didn’t do any cooking while we were in the apartment but it appeared to be fairly well-equipped. There is a full size refrigerator, a microwave (no toaster or toaster oven) and a cartridge-type coffee maker (no drip coffee maker).
The “Jack and Jill” bathroom is between the bedrooms with a door to each bedroom and has a tub/shower. There is a closet in each bedroom with hangers and a hanging set of "pouches" for your toiletries, etc.
The apartment has good, room-darkening curtains throughout but the curtain can’t be closed on the front door when you leave, so it would be good to bring a sheet to clip on the door so people can’t look inside your place while you are gone (curtains can close when you are in the cottage).
The property has a great central location in northern LA. We Visited the Getty Villa, the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, the Natural History Museum, Warner Brothers and every other museum in between. The apartment is right smack in the middle of it all! It is also in little Thailand with lots of Thai restaurants and small groceries in walking distance. There is a Vons and Ralphs as well as CVC, Walgreens and Target a short drive away and all with parking. 7-11 store up the block.
The “Pillows and Coffee” group evidently manages several dozen locations in the Los Angeles area (see their website). They were extremely responsive and checked in with us a couple of times to make sure we didn’t need anything.
If/when we are in the northern Los Angeles again we absolutely will stay in this cottage! I’m including a bunch of photos with this review.