Overall, this was a good place. We were super impressed with Christopher's quick response to questions. Location is wonderful, as it's between a popular beach area and a vibrant street. We were a little disappointed that we were not given warning about a huge street festival that was happening on the day we checked in. We had to drive around a few times to try and find parking near this place.
We did not get a good sleep the first night, as York Street is a designated bicycle route and there seemed to be some kind of bike event happening on our first morning there. We were constantly woken up between the hours of 4:30 a.m. onwards by people talking very loud on their bikes as they went past. There is no air conditioning in this place, so you really need to have all the windows open at night in order to cool the apartment down. Thus, you hear all the noise from the street.
A warning that there are a lot of stairs to the unit. It's quite a hike up.
It was also disappointing that there are two huge TVs in the place, but if you want to watch anything on them you need to sign in with your own passwords to streaming services like Netflix or Prime. And then you need to deregister from that device before you leave, or the next person will have access to your account. It looks like there is cable for the upstairs TV, but the wire had been disconnected and removed. We also had a heck of a time trying to get sound on the downstairs TV. It appeared to have been turned off.
Lastly, we didn't feel like the unit was as clean as it could have been. It appeared to have been hastily cleaned. There was a very musty smell in it that we didn't like. We were glad that we had brought our own soap for the shower, as there was an old, used cake of soap sitting on the bathtub that was rather gross.
The best thing about the unit is location and the patio, which is very peaceful and has a good views of both the ocean and the city skyline.
We wouldn't stay there again, as we didn't think the value matched the cost of the rental. It was sufficient for our two nights.