Great 2 week stay with wife & 2 children (16&20).
Lovely condo. Spacious & well equipped. Comfy beds. 2 ensuites. Excellent aircon. Stocked with all the essentials. Instructions for accessing property were clear & easy to follow. Nice wee balcony. Keyless entry was very handy.
Complex has great facilities. We used the gym & pool regularly. The pool was never busy & lots of loungers. The local residents were very friendly & we had some great days / evenings by pool & hot tub. The use of the gas BBQs was also nice.
Spoiled for choice with a cinema, shopping & food options on doorstep. We particularly liked BJ’s for dine out & presto pasta & toppers pizza for take out. We also visited old town Newhall to eat at smokehouse on main, which was our favourite. The property is ideal for visiting six flags. We visited the nearby swim beach at Castaic lake several times & loved it. You can also hire a boat on the larger lake.
We chose Santa Clarita as our base for visiting the LA region & did not regret it.., we were only minutes from the I5 & 30 minutes to visit Hollywood, universal, etc, we also visited Malibu, Newport, Santa Monica, etc, the LA traffic can be a grind, but only an issue once you hit LA, the road between Santa Clarita & LA was always fine. We felt we had the best of both worlds as Santa Clarita is a lovely safe town, with the better weather, best theme park & a beach at the lake which was safer for swimming, but we were still able to all the LA sights.