Barbara was a great host. She took care of the few additional questions we had immediately. The apartment is fresh and clean, and its location is absolutely great. Calm area but still close to shops, restaurants and the beach. The laundry facilities in the building worked well and was most of the time available, just bring quarters, 2usd/machine. Also we discovered the local transport that work really for us, four different buss-lines with in a minute from the apartment, add the Expoline in Santa Monica to that and we had transport to most of the places we wanted to go to. We had a lovely stay.