Our stay at Donna's place was overall great. The apartment is very big and is located close to UCLA and Santa Monica. As for most places in LA, you will still need a car to move around easily (although you can get to Santa Monica pretty easily with a 20-30 min bus). Having the parking spaces is very helpful.
The rooms and kitchen are big and provided most of what we needed. Donna was very available to any issues that came up during our stay and was happy to help (for example, we asked her to copies of the front door key and she did this the next day).
There are a few issues that I think worth mentioning:
- The furniture and size of the apartment looked just like the photos but everything looks a bit tired and the walls could use some painting.
- The walls are very thin and you can sometimes hear everything that's going on outside, especially during weekends when other guests in the nearby apartments may be partying, or even the garbage truck early in the morning.
- The wifi in the bedrooms was excellent but did not work well in the living room and kitchen. It was checked several times but they couldn't find any solution. Given the kitchen is the only workspace with a table, it should have better wifi quality.
- The curtains in the bedrooms are not very efficient - you can see through them if you pass by the apartment and they also barely block any sulinght.