Su’s place was very comfortable and very clean. Everything was as expected and was a very nice place to retreat in a crazy busy city. The only challenge was that finding parking was not easy on a Sunday night. The directions did say that parking is usually available on Fulton Street but that street borders the golden gate park and I didn’t feel too safe parking overnight there when I had to leave some large bins in my car.
Also the heating inside the unit must be controlled somewhere else and so the guests don’t have any control over the heat other than to close the vents off. At first when I arrived the place was very cold and stale air and I couldn’t figure out why until I noticed that the vents were closed and didn’t know if that was for a reason. It was difficult to get in touch with the host via the Airbnb messaging system (which they said was best) and it wasn’t until after I text messaged them that I finally got a response to figure out what was up with the heating system. But since they weren’t home there wasn’t any way for them to turn the heat up at that time. And then it of course got way too hot in the middle of the night and because of the bad air quality in SF I couldn’t open the windows and so I had to just shut the vents off again. Hopefully they will just provide a space heater so that guests can control the heat themselves.
The only other flaw was that the cleaning lady showed up before check out time while I was still loading my stuff in the car. So I had to walk back in the unit to retrieve the rest of my stuff while she was already cleaning and she didn’t speak English so she didn’t seem to understand that I was still checking out.
Overall Su’s place was very nice and clean and modern! I would stay there again hoping they will fix the heating issue. The parking issue may not be a problem if you don’t have to leave anything in your car too but it would have been nice to know that parking on the neighborhood streets can be a challenge.