Overall great location that was within walking distance to Venice Beach and Abbot Kinney and a very short trip to Santa Monica. Place was nice and having a garage to park in for busy LA was perfect. We very much enjoyed having the beach towels, toys, and chairs available to us during our stay. We also took advantage of the grill and ate at the apartment quite a bit. This was nice - Thank you!!
For anyone traveling with children I wouldn’t personally recommend Venice Beach and would take the time to travel to Malibu, Santa Monica, or Newport Beach among the many others available. Venice Beach which was within walking distance was very dirty and filled with homeless everywhere. The stores were also quite vulgar and we made the mistake of going to dinner at one of the restaurants (Larry’s) after dark and felt extremely unsafe both in the restaurant and outside based on the crowds. We wouldn’t have dared walk back even though it was less than a half a mile we took an Uber. Overall I wouldn’t let this dissuade you from staying here. While there was some heavy foot traffic in the ally we had no issues - more/less a personal recommendation to travel to a different beach than what is the closest.