The House Up in the Hills

An amazing home and even more amazing host in the perfect location. Highly recommend!

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Great place to stay all around!Host was excellent. Met us on arrival and showed us around the property. The property is well stocked and is in a cool neighborhood that to me looked like a village you would find in Italy or other parts of Europe. It sits on a hill and you have a great vantage point looking out. If you have a car, its a bit tricky to navigate the garage, given it is on a narrow street, but the property is well worth it for it's comforts as well as location to all things Hollywood and nearby areas. Since it sits on a hillside, you will have to decide if you walk down or drive down to nearby activities, since if you walk down you will have to walk up!The property is really close to the Hollywood Bowl, you could easily walk it, but again you would need to be prepared to walk back up, which for us was not a problem.This property was centrally located to all the things we did and most things were a 30 minute drive or less, and that is saying something in LA! The things we did were as follows with the drive times in brackets:Dodgers game (15-20 Min)Griffith Park (10-15 Min)Hike up to Hollywood Sign (10-15 Min)Hollywood Bowl (2 Min)Beverly Hills (20 - 25 Min)Santa Monica (30 Min)Hollywood walk of fame (5 Min)This is a great property in an excellent location!

I was so excited to come to this house on my recent visit to LA. The reviews were stellar and the house looked dramatic and glamorous. Here’s what I learned upon arrival that I think future renters should know. This is not a 4-bedroom house as indicated with one bedroom offering a king bed, and the other three offering queen beds. Instead, it is a 3-bedroom house, with the fourth “bedroom” doubling as a “lounge” and the only place for a group to convene (unless you count sitting at a dining table on the main level.) It is filled with a cluster of sofas pushed together that can serve as a makeshift bed. When I expressed disappointment with the accommodations, the owner said that there was a blow-up mattress we could use. Incidentally. that lounge/bedroom is 28 steep stairs down from the main level. Also, would have been cool to know this as I was traveling with my family, including my 88-year-old mother, who struggled to navigate the stairs the entire time. The owner knew that I was traveling with an elderly person as I told her so in my introductory email. Still, because we were in town for a wedding and on a tight schedule, we did not have time to switch accommodations, so stayed. Another fun fact, the bedroom level is 14 steep and turning stairs down from the main level. Again, for the able bodied, a pain. For anyone with mobility issues, it is dangerous.