The house is beautiful inside with lovely marble finishes, nice furniture, comfy beds. It is a short walk to Balboa park and Little Italy. There are plenty of rooms for a big group of people and a nice common area. Only two things were a little annoying for us:
1. I was told we would know the key code for check in 2 days before but was frantically trying to message the host literally up until 10 minutes before check in the day of to get the code before I finally got it. At one point they said they were fixing the locks but the problem was I had to keep reaching out to ask and also we had guests arriving at different times and flying or driving and I couldn’t be in my in basket constantly checking to be able to tell those arriving earlier, so this was inconvenient and caused worry. In the end, it all worked out fine though.
2. They say you have the entire house but we learned there is a small unit at the back of the house that shares a wall with us and you can hear EVERYTHING. My friends and I staying on the back side (including upstairs master bedroom) could hear the neighbors for hours each night at 1:30-3:30am, blasting music, making “offensive noises” (you can imagine), every footstep and every word. So that really cut into our sleep. Even after complaining the next night they didn’t blast music but were still extremely loud and we were so sleep deprived. The loud airplanes overhead are annoying but not as bad as loud obnoxious neighbors.
Other than that we really did have a fabulous weekend at this house.