This was a great place to spend a few weeks. It's a very large downstairs apartment - there's a main room, with a full kitchen off to the side, and then in the back there's a large bedroom, with a bathroom off of that. The apartment and bedroom are both very quiet. There's ample street parking, maybe once or twice on a weekend I had to park a block or two away.

The neighborhood is great, and you can walk to many restaurants, music venues, book stores, records stores - there's a strip along Sunset Boulevard about a ten-minute stroll away that has Sage (delicious vegetarian restaurant), a great bookstore, a great record store, the Echo (music venue). A two-minute walk down the hill takes you to Mohawk Bend (spacious bar/restaurant with large on-tap beer selection if that's your thing), and also the Hedgehog coffee shop. An amazing taco truck (Taco Zone) is a 5 minute walk away in the Von's parking lot - delicious and so inexpensive you will feel guilty.) Once I walked 25 minutes down Alvarado to see a band at the Bootleg Theater. There's also a Starbucks less than a 5-minute walk away, inside of the laundromat.

But you don't need to use the laundromat, because Mia and Anthony allow you to use their washer/dryer, which is right outside the door to your apartment (which is essentially the bottom of their house facing their backyard).

There's not much light in there during the day, but since I was never there during the day, this was not an issue for me. It's a great location for driving anywhere in LA, and Mia and Anthony couldn't have been more helpful or accommodating. I honestly don't see why anyone would choose a hotel over this kind of experience, unless you have a lot of money to throw away, and don't want to cook your own food once in awhile, or make use of a full-size refrigerator. Not to mention that it's more than double the size of any normal hotel room.

A great deal in a great neighborhood.