The Designer's Garden Retreat is a very nice place. It's new, very clean and spacious. Depending on the goals of the traveler it might be a bit "off the beaten path," i.e. not close to downtown SF. In a quiet neighborhood.

For me the only negative was the inability to prepare dinner. There's a toaster oven in the unit. For me a microwave would have been more helpful. It's hard to cook in a toaster oven. I mentioned this to this host and he was open to considering a microwave. If you don't want to eat out all the time this is a drawback.

Otherwise it's great!