Overall the apartment was very clean, very spacious, and adequately furnished. The location was good and convenient to many places to eat , shop, and excursion were available onsite and nearby. The convenience to the beach was awesome, however we did hit the tail end of the seaweed season. The view was very good, however from about noon to about 11:00 pm, this beach location is a happening place, so do not expect any peace and quite except between 11:00pm to about 11:00am (which is not that bad at all). Overall we felt very safe in this area, and we found most of the people were very friendly. I would give an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5. The only reason that I did not give a 5 would be that several of the plumbing fixture (shower heads especially) needed to be replaced, stove in kitchen works but needs to be updated, and the water on location was beautiful for swimming, but not good for snorkeling on site (very good snorkeling nearby on very affordable excursions). Recommendations: Citrus (excellent restaurant within walking distance); Le Madison (very good Restaurant within walking distance); onsite gourmet popsicle shop (homemade and very tasty); Catalina Island excursion (great price, great snorkeling, fun boat ride, mediocre buffet, well worth the 90 minute commute); mini speed boat/snorkeling excursion (cheep, you can negotiate price, amount of people per boat, and pay for more time on water if you like). Tips: don't plan excursion ahead of time, find a vender on the beech that you like, and haggle! Arron was the name of our guy, he was awesome! He is connected with store #3 in shopping strip on the same beach.