Ginger is a nice and very responsive host. Even though she was out of town by the time of our stay, she replied all our messages promptly and made some members of her family available for help if needed. This was very valuable for us, as you don't see that compromise with our guest experience very often.

The neighborhood is just beautiful and very convenient,; only one block away from almost everything you need in Noe Valley. It's a very quiet, clean and family focused area of San Francisco which kind of makes you forget the rush of the city.

About the apartment, it is a small and charming place with everything you need except from a couple things, which may or may not make a difference in your stay, but in our case it did:

1) The is a supposed internet conection but it's pretty bad. And I don't mean bad as in slow. It is bad as in most times, almost all the time, you won't be able to connect to the wi-fi and if you do, it won't work. It just won't. We thought we were lucky to have a good wi-fi connection for the first two days when we connected to the family access point with the password that was provided to us, and it worked perflectly until someone changed the password of that and instead a "-Guest" connection appeared, which doesn't work most of the time, so we had to rely on AT&T LTE data from our phones, which has a poor signal reception in that specific area of the neighborhood. What am I saying with this? If your work depends on having a good internet connection, then this is not your place.

2) The overall TV experience is really bad. The TV box by XFinity has plenty of channels on the guide, but most of them just don't work. I went through all the channels on the guide, and I could only watch 15 channels, from which only three or four are actually known. Most of them are "Church" channels or those sale channels that talk for 40 minutes about something and try to sell it to you.

As San Francisco is a rich and beautiful city with lots of incredible places to visit and experience, you'll probably don't care about having a working TV set but if, for example, you're travelling with someone that will mostly stay at home during the day or just likes to watch TV at night, you'll regret choosing this apartment because remember # 1) There's virtually no internet here. I went on and did the job of buying an HDMI cable to plug my phone and watch Netflix and it didn't work because the internet connection is so poor you simply cannot stream content to your screen.

If neither Internet nor TV are big deals for you, then I would highly recommend staying at Ginger's apartment for sure.