Jess was super nice by meeting us to show us the place and letting us check in earlier on Friday. However, the place is just not a good place to stay when you have few days to enjoy the west coast. It’s simple, cheap decorated and an old apartment unit and building. The whole building smells like animals, as it has old carpet hallway. I am guessing this apartment is rent controlled.. I lived in Santa monica before - rent controlled apartments are not well maintained due to rent being extremely cheap!!! I was pushing my judgment back until we spent the night.. 😩 cheap beds, cheap mattresses — a lot of body pain the next day - what a terrible night! Seriously, We checked out Saturday before 2 pm, instead of Sunday. I used more miles to get us to fly back home early bc our bodies were pretty much ruined and walking around Santa Monica/LA would not be fun after our not very comfortable night. My 5 years old woke up and asked me for a massage complaining about her back! 😬 Next time we will just go to a nice hotel. Most hotels in the beach side or close to the airport have nice beds - even the ones you fine for ~200$ a night! We will just grab two beds in one room hotel and stay in comfortable mattresses 🫣After all - when in LA all you need is a comfortable night of sleep, to be able to go explore and enjoy the west coast during the day!
We didn’t request a refund. I sent a msg to Jess letting her know we had checkout around lunch time on Saturday. It is very SAD that people want to put you in old apartments and not even provide decent mattresses. Also, garage is a problem. Long long long long walk with your luggages and through stinky hallways to get to the apartment from the garage. No solution for this. I tried all the other elevators. We also had to park by the side of a wall, bc parking was completely full by 10 pm, even my boyfriend waiting in the car for 30 minutes to see if anyone would leave.. not enough parking spots for each apartment unit.. you can see that as you have that long walk to get to this unit! The building is shaped very strangely - just be prepared to walk. 😅 Or better - just book a hotel! It is hard getting a nice place by the beach for a fair place in this area.. most airbnbs here will be old buildings.. I should have realized that!