We absolutely loved our stay here in the Venice canals. It was a dream come true to ‘live like a local’ and access the canals right outside our doorstep. The apartment is spacious, comfortable and well designed. I can’t recommend it enough! We enjoyed walking to the beach or to Abbott Kinney shopping and restaurants. If you are just staying here you wouldn’t need a car, we didn’t have one and just used Uber to get to Santa Monica a couple of times. The rest of the time (4 nights stay) we just walked everywhere. The kitchen was nice to have, although we didn’t cook a full meal but we picked up some bread and other things from a local bakery/deli (Gjusta) as a treat for breakfast and snacking. You could easily do a self catered trip here if you didn’t want to eat out all the time. Thank you for a wonderful stay, we would definitely return in future.