We LOVED staying here.
The apartment:
very clean and pretty. 20 minute walk to a beautiful quiet beach with paved trails. 10 minute walk to amazing restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops, I mean really good food (Japonica, Jame Etonica, Alii Fish Co., Sausal) and coffee (Smoke Hollow roasters only a block away), Blue Butterfly).
Great pool and grill area.
Justin & Eliza were great hosts - very quick to respond to anything we needed.
The town: We'd never even heard of El Segundo and now it is our new favorite town. (we actually just found a long term apartment rental for our daughter here!) Not touristy - You'll feel like a local. It's adorable, clean, close to Ocean - a retreat from the busyness of LA, Venice etc.
My only "negative" comment is (if you only need 1 bed - stop reading, you'll love it here), but if you're looking at the living room as a place to sleep, The couch is super cute and very comfortable for sitting, but not so much for sleeping. There are bright lights outside the window and the door glass, so even with shades shut it's bright in the living room at night. We bought a mat to put on couch for me (my daughter had the bedroom) and it was just fine. I hope to stay here again and if I do, I might just bring black out fabric to put over door/window at night :)
I highly recommend staying at this unit in El Segundo. I would stay there again in a heartbeat (I wish it didn't have the minimum of 1 month stay so I could stay more often - but I think that's a town regulation). love love love. Thank you!