This home is conveniently located a short 1-2 minute walk from Venice Beach.
Things we liked:
- Communicating with the owner, Buz. On the few occasions we had reason to communicate (by text), Buz responded quickly.
- Comfortable beds
- A small dinette table in a covered area outside the front entrance; we drank coffee there in the morning.
- Availability of free use of some bikes. We cycled from Venice Beach to neighboring Santa Monica on a couple of occasions.
- Location. You can walk or cycle to Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Driving to the 10 freeway is 5-10 minutes away, and once there you can get anywhere. It's also relatively close to LAX which took us 25 minutes by Uber.
- Catching the sunset at the beach.
We had only two concerns during our stay. Both were beyond the control of Buz or us.
1. The first was that upon our arrival another vehicle was in our designated spot. Buz was quick to start calling the other unit owners to find out if the car belonged to them. We ultimately found the owner -- a neighbor from another house -- who left their vehicle there while they popped in for something. This was not the fault of anyone and never happened again. But the neighbor was either illiterate or ignorant of the signs saying it was a private driveway.
2. Be aware that the Venice Beach area has a fairly large homeless population. One evening during our stay we arrived to find a queen size mattress in the driveway with a homeless person sleeping on it underneath a pile of blankets. It was late at night so we resolved the issue by calling the non-emergency number for the LAPD Pacific Division which sent a cruiser over to move the person along. They responded within minutes so the person and the mattress were gone quickly enough.
All in all we were happy with our stay.