A perfect place for one person’s short trip in LA! I enjoyed my stay. This is a small place but has everything you need. The building was located right in Echo Park which made it easy to commute around Los Angeles. It’s right next to some restaurants and Walgreens and a grocery store. It’s also really close to the lake if you want to walk around in Echo Park! It was pretty quiet in the building except for some noise from the surrounding restaurants at night and in the early morning but not too bad. (There were also some squirrels or mice in the ceiling / on the roof outside scratching around in the night but not a big deal once i figured out where the noise was coming from😂 just fyi if you hear that) The apartment was pretty clean and very similar to the pictures! The air conditioning was much appreciated as I was there during a heat wave! I just wanted a small little home base in LA from which to explore and this was perfect.
Parking: this was the only tricky/negative part of the experience, but it wasn’t too bad—just a little annoying and requires some patience. There are some two hour metered parking spots outside which were frequently free, but trying to find parking otherwise was pretty tricky in this area. I stayed during the end of the week and Thursday and Friday are street sweeping days which means most of the streets around the building have no parking starting very early in the morning so you’ll have to get up and move your car or risk a ticket, and its hard to find a spot because everyone moves their car to the other side of the street. There are a lot of drop off zones in the neighborhood that also say no parking because they are next to a school. The rest are metered parking and the meters start at 8 AM. So if you want to find a spot where you don’t have to get up early to move the car or even just find a free spot at all, you will sometimes be driving around for 10-15 minutes in the neighborhood and end up a few blocks away. Most times I was able to find a good spot within a block or two, but sometimes it took me 5 minutes and sometimes it took me 25 minutes when I got home later at night, so just be aware. I never felt too unsafe walking around in the dark though. There are a lot of posted street parking signs in the area with different rules so be sure to really look out for them and follow the directions!