My wife and I were in LA for 5 weeks to take care of some personal business. I have been to LA many times before and although I did not know Glendale it looked like a great location for where we needed to get to in LA. Javier's apartment looked fabulous and we booked it for 3 weeks, hoping we'd have some time for travel after that.
When we walked in to the apartment for the first time it was "wow" - what an excellent home. Spacious, very up-market and smart. Well-fitted and amazing views. The large balcony added to the spaciousness. Javier had provided some essential supplies like, coffee, teabags, milk, snacks, yogurt and even a bottle of wine!
Javier was great - left us his cell number and whenever we needed him he was swift to respond. Our stay there was pretty well flawless and Glendale turned out to be a great city for us to be located in - everything is within 10 minutes drive with great shopping, banks, markets, restaurants etc. We found we needed to be careful to pick our time for travelling South as the 110 freeway around downtown LA could get busy, but once we were aware of that it was no problem.
If/when we need to be in LA again this would be my number one choice. Indeed we needed to find somewhere to stay for our last 5 nights before returning to the UK, but sadly for us Javier already had the apartment booked out.
In terms of detail, the living/dining-room is spacious with a large dining table, nice couches and flat screen TV with DirectTVcable.
The kitchen is well fitted out and just right for the size of apartment.
The bathroom is small but more than adequate.
The bedroom is very large with a queen-size bed and very comfortable mattress.
Once the weather started to really warn up the balcony was perfect to give us more space and fresh air - we only needed the air-con once.
And we had off-road parking right by the apartment.
To give our stay anything less than 5 stars would be dishonest.