Where do I start .. Very disappointing. My personal experience aside, the photos you see in the picture are NOT what you get in person. I can't guess how many years ago they were taken but the furniture is not nice wood but cheap side tables and a peeling black bed frame. The curtains that now hang there do not fully cover the windows. The closet has a bunch of boxes with someone's stuff and a funky smell that permeates through the apartment if I don't keep the windows open.
When they say "ocean view" they mean: a busy main road, with a public washroom where homeless people hang out during the day and sleep during the night (or yell without stop for 12 hours about Obama and archangel Michael.. quite the feat for anyone's vocal chords), this is followed by a cliff and a highway, followed by a dirty beach where more homeless people sleep and camp followed at last by the beautiful ocean waves .. by that point I didn't brave swimming there and didn't come back to sit by the water after my first time.
No toaster, stove takes some wrangling to turn on and using the oven brings the smell of gas into the apartment. Speaking of smells, the kitchen waste bin has no lid and is too big and so sits by the stove permeating the room with a lovely aroma of the scraps and garbage from the day before.
Poor plumbing: there is a note on the washroom wall stating there the building has poor plumbing and not to flush paper products in the toilet. But the waste basked has no lid.. I'll leave the details of the experience out. This meant that both the kitchen sink and bathtub do not drain properly and so 2 minutes into washes dishes everything is floating in dirty soapy water and 2min into a shower I am ankle deep in dirty soapy water.
Noise, when they say there is a bar downstairs they really mean it. For most people they won't know what that means until they experience your toilet vibrating to the music and feeling the wonderful cushy mattress shaking as they try to fall asleep (thankfully this was only Friday and Saturday). Oh yes, then there is the crazy and/or homeless people that hang out, talk and sometimes yell all night long. Not cool.
No A/C as stated in the posting, this also means that your options are keeping the windows closed and smelling the musky room (you are by the ocean) permeated with the funky closet smell OR the smell of tobacco and marijuana from the bar combined with the noise of busy traffic and the crazy people, along with the revving of people driving fancy cars and the tourists. (During the day it is mostly ok)
Bottom line:
The host does not care to reply to my messages in a timely manner and outright ignored some. So he does not care.
The landlord (this is a rental complex of 2 floors of 5 or so rooms each) does not care to upkeep the place even minimally either.
NOT COMING BACK.