The apartment itself was wonderful and Kim was super fast at responding even though she was out of the country during our stay. Being on the beach was great, but there were a couple things that should be known before booking and would have probably changed my mind on choosing this stay.
1. If there are other guests staying in the building, the front patio is shared. So if you wanted to grill, use the patio furniture, or things that are supposed to be available to you and the other guests are using them you’re SOL. We ran into this problem more than once when wanting to use the patio. That’s not something disclosed beforehand.
2. Being right on the beach is awesome, as long as you don’t go down by the water. The closer to the water you get, the dirtier it is. The beach is not kept up with cleaning. There was trash, a dead chicken, and used needles lying around when we tried walking the beach close to the water. I didn’t want my kids down there, which almost defeated the purpose of a beach front stay.
Besides those two major issues, our stay was fine. It’s a great location when it comes to getting anywhere in the LA or surrounding areas.