Great location in a beautiful neighbourhood. We absolutely loved Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Apartment was clean and delightfully quirky as expected, and provided a great base for Venice, and not too far from airport or Hollywood etc in an Uber. Our only issue was the bedroom windows didn’t lock. We eventually managed to lock the main bedroom window after a fair bit of fiddling and stress, but the second bedroom window didn’t lock at all which in a ground floor apartment was a real concern for us as we had kids with us so ended up one adult and one kid per room. Also meant we were constantly worried when we were out of the apartment as the windows could easily have been opened from the outside. The hosts replied to this issue when we raised it on our first night, but didn’t resolve it until we’d chased and not until our penultimate day so we had two of three days/nights in the same situation. It’s been fixed now which was appreciated, but it was a notable concern and why we’ve not rated the place 5stars. It also felt a little over priced, but maybe that’s just LA prices and the location made it worth it on balance. Note that the air con in the bedroom is really noisy so we hardly used it as too loud to sleep with it on. The apartment is well equipped with essentials like a decent coffee maker. Being picky, for such expensive Air B&B’s we have come to expect at least milk, butter and bread on arrival which was lacking here, although the wine and biscuits were welcome, as were the couple of coffee pods provided, and washing up liquid, soap, detergent were also all provided which was helpful.
Overall, the positives outweigh the negatives and we enjoyed our stay ... if we’d felt more secure we’d definitely have enjoyed it more though and probably would have given it 5 stars.