The down side of this house -
Outside the house - Garden, Parking and Pool -
Pool - The swimming pool was disappointing. It is small. It wasn’t clean and most importantly the water was freezing cold. The heating system didn’t work at all although we paid an extra of 100$ a day for the pool to be heated. We asked the host to fixed it numerous times in vain. She hasn’t done so. So we couldn’t use the pool at all.
Garden - The garden is tiny and not very well maintained. It is dusty and not clean.
Parking - The inner parking garage was off-limit for some reason… so we could only park the car outside, where the steepness of the parking place damages the lower part of the car every time you move in or out of the parking.
Inside the house -
Bedrooms - There is no way to completely darken the bedrooms (so we woke up at first light every morning) and you can’t open windows to ventilate the rooms (beside one room in which there is an option to slightly open the window). The open sofa in the basement room is not comfortable.
Bathrooms - The water pressure in the bathrooms was poor.
Entire house - The alarm system makes a lot of noise. It shouts every time you open any outside doors (and there are at least 5 exits). We asked to turn it off or tone it down but the host didn’t agree to do so. Every time someone wanted to go out to the balcony or to garden in the night it disturbed everyone. And if someone comes late they wake everyone in the house. Generally the acoustic in the house is very poor. The air-condition make lots of noise in one of the bedrooms to the point that you can’t sleep. There were also a few days of loud music from the neighbor’s house (the neighboring houses are quite close to each other, as it is a crowded neighborhood).
- There is a very inconvenient and even dangerous unmarked step between the living-room and the kitchen. Even if it was marked it would have been risky. All the people that came to the house tripped.
- Generally, there are too many staircases in the house.
- We’ve got only one set of keys which was quite uncomfortable although we asked for anther one. It is not reasonable to give only one set of keys to such house and number of guests.
On the good side -
The location is perfect in west Hollywood.
Elise was responsive and kind and allowed us to checkout 45 min after the normal check out time.
The house itself is specious and it was clean. The kitchen is big and well equipped.
We were 4 guests - for a business trip and although the long list of the downsides we enjoyed our stay.