Nick's property sits on a 20 minute drive to downtown LA, with breathtaking views at day and night time alike.
A lot of glass in the room which means the room has a great feel alongside plenty of natural light.
He provides filtered water, coffee, tea, a good TV, an air conditioning unit to help relieve the heat (the room gets really hot, so make sure the unit runs for 1-2 hours before you go to bed).
There's scenic routes you can take up to the house coming from downtown LA that I'd recommend, but the one that takes the crown is the scenic view down to Malibu. Around 35-40m. Awesome drive down mountain.
The reason for the two stars:
- this is a country getaway, which means you'll share the environment with the farm and all animals and insects that thrive in this environment. This is great! The problem was though that 4 bees entered our room at 1am on the first night due to the poor finishings and trims around the house. Some pretty large gaps allow small insects to go in and party away.
- this one was a bit more complicated. Second night we started hearing noises coming from above us, and onto the TV area. Audible scratching and squeeky noises from what appears to be a rodent (a mouse). It appeared to me that it was running laps between the TV area and the ceiling of the house, but I was unable to see it. Because of the uncertainty, we decided to leave the property as I was not going to share my night with scratching noises and a potential mouse.
I communicated this to the host and the answer we got was, in short, a "it's a country getaway, can happen".
Partially true. While the country getaway brings more possibilities of these happening, if it weren't for the poor finishes and trims around that house, this wouldn't have happened.
I did not ask for the refund of that night, and Nick said he hasn't seen a rodent there, which was why I left the phone statically recording so I'd have a capture of what it sounds. I would have refunded the night was I to be the host. Good customer service dictates it.
If it wasn't for these happenings, easy 5*.