My family and I stayed here the weekend of my birthday in August. This location is its biggest selling point. So easy to zip around the neighborhoods I frequently visit when in town.
The interior is very basic, no frills at all, but I feel like the photos do a decent job of conveying that. The off street parking is nice, but with the hassle of getting out of the car and someone physically going into the house and then out onto the patio to then unlatch the gate from the inside, and then manually holding open the gate, we found it easier to just park on the street in front.
My main issue was the AC or specifically the eco timer placed on the unit. There appears to be one giant vent in the middle of the house and no vents in any of the bedrooms. Anytime you leave the house, or it senses no activity (sleeping) , the air shuts off. LA was 93° that weekend and the coolest the house ever reached was 87°. We reached out to Dong and he was quick to call me back and send over the instructions he found online to try to override his system. He also offered to drive the 20 minutes to the house, and to attempt it himself, but we were out and about and my husband said he could try on his own when we got back to the house. Alas, we never could get it to kick on and did our best with raising the windows and trying to use fans. Even the bathroom lights were set on timers and my kids would complain that they had to shower in the dark because the lights would time themselves out.
Dong did offer me $100 for my troubles., which was nice. Honestly it was nearly $500 a night to stay here and we definitely wished we had chosen a hotel. I felt like it would be a treat to stay in an Airbnb, but sweating the entire weekend with the lights shutting off mid shower wasn’t the vibe I was hoping for.