Pretty good stay with some pros and cons, I'll start with the pros.
Pros:
- Easy check-in and communicative + friendly hosts.
- Air conditioning worked well and bed was comfortable.
- Pretty spacious space.
- Great snacks like Milano cookies, coffee, few sodas/beers, and Brita water.
- Beautiful pool area with water guns and floats.
- Bug sprays and pool towels provided at pool area.
- Located on a pretty hill with nice views as your drive up, close to San Gabriel which has great Chinese food (much better than Chinatown), and is close to Angeles National Forest.
Cons:
- Pool rented out on swimply.com simultaneously during our stay.
- Pool reservation system isn't super clear, we agreed with hosts to let them know an hour before we wanted to use. We didn't always get to use it an hour later if it was rented on Swimply. Hosts don't rent it on Swimply on weekends, early mornings, and after working hours (5PM) on their Swimply listing.
- Dishonest about who uses the pool. On listing it says only hosts would use it, when we met in person they mentioned 'neighborhood kids' use it too, reality is that it was rented on Swimply to the public during our stay.
- Shower head was at eye level and I'm 5'11, this shouldn't be an issue if you're 4-5+ inches shorter.
- Aggressive mosquitos come out after 5PM in the pool area.
We wouldn't really mind sharing pool with Swimply users if pool reservation system was more clear for Airbnb guests and hosts were more honest. If we could've picked time slots ahead of time it would've been ok.