This apartment was great for us, we were 2 persons staying 17 nights. Initially we came to visit San Francisco, but we ended up loving the area. The area has lots of great restaurants, cafes and stores. Holy Land for great falafel, and Slice of Hollywood for that late night pizza. The lake is a great hang out point and very nice to walk around, with lots of activity and sports around it.

The kitchen is well equipped with a good stove, big fridge, toaster-oven, microwave. The bathroom is clean and worked well. We had wifi, TV, speakers for playing music and access to Netflix that kept us entertained in the evenings. The apartment was perfect for our needs and didn't feel as small as it was made to believe in the description.

We took a lovely walk via the lake to the BART at 19th street most days, that usually took 20 minutes. There were also buses close by, and the NL took us straight to San Francisco. The apartment had great accessibility to public transport over all, which is not specified in the description. It didn't take a very long time to get from the apartment to SF city centre. Our over all experience in the area was over expectation, and we had an amazing time in the Lake Merritt area.

The only negative experience was the noise coming from the apartment above, the walls seemed to be quite thin. The family would wake up very early in the mornings and make a lot of noise in general for some hours in the early morning. Mike did his best to solve the situation, and offered us an air filter to filter away the noise. The bed is also quite hard to sleep on, it is specified in the description that the bed is a futon, so keep this in mind. This was fine but if you stay longer than 2 weeks this might be a problem.

Mike was a great host, he replied fast when ever we needed help and always offered solutions and made us feel right at home. He accommodated our needs and even let us stay a little longer on our departure day, which was really appreciated.
We had a great time here and we would really love to come back one day!