the review is bias on that we never stayed here, since all travel to the island was canceled the morning of our trip at 6:30am. due to a winter storm, that was unprecedented (22-24th of Feb 2023, when LA had a blizzard that following weekend). and while travel was refunded with no ?'s and airbnb did their part to contact the host, and evolve (a property management co. for the host) all tried to rectify the situation. the unanimous response was that winter storms are predicable and do not fall under extenuating circumstances or acts of God/Natural disaster. everyone attached policies to their responses, and concluded that they were not going to budge on (no refund if canceled after 2 weeks prior). this was the response to refund and to a credit to stay elsewhere. this took 4 days during a honeymoon.
I would recommend staying here in the summer months, but in Winter, get travel insurance. Catalina express does not know if travel will be canceled until 6:30 am PST the morning of.