This is a great location. So close to Belmont Park and just steps from the beach. Having a garage was also very nice. Parking is usually tough in this area. The upstairs patio was a favorite hangout for our whole family. We all enjoyed hearing the ocean at night from our bedroom windows.
Having said that, we had many problems with this rental. We arrived about dusk on Monday and quickly saw that the kitchen cabinets and wall behind the trash had dried food flecks on them. The window behind the sink was also very dirty and the sink had a long dark hair in it.
The TV was not connecting with wifi that first night. Although the house manual stated there was an Amazon Fire Stick, apparently there was a new TV and no FireStick anymore. We tried a bunch of things and couldn’t get it to work. We immediately texted Danny about that and the dirtiness of the unit. He apologized and said they had been having issues with their cleaners and then offered to have them come back again but we declined. Danny said that he would give us a refund on part of the cleaning fee. (Note: It’s been nearly two weeks and no refund has come through.)
Danny offered Monday night to come over the next day to fix the TV but we didn’t hear from him until noon on Tuesday and it was a generic “How are things going?” He didn’t mention the TV or follow up on his offer to come fix it.
Also when we got up on Tuesday, in the morning light we could see every window and especially slider door had multiple handprints and smears. We ended up cleaning them ourselves.
The carpet on the stairs and in each bedroom had dark black stains (maybe drink spills?). The master king bed was very worn and made a loud creaking noise when sitting on the right side.
One scary thing was on our second day, Tuesday afternoon, when one of the hanging chairs chains on the third floor patio broke when our son sat in it. The metal connector had rusted and decomposed in the salty air making the chairs dangerous. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt. We immediately texted Danny about that and requested someone to come fix the unsafe chairs. We told him we were planning to be out of the house the whole next day (Wed).
Also we texted Danny Tuesday afternoon that three Kleenex boxes were empty in the bathrooms and there was no dryer sheets like the house manual stated were available.
We didn’t hear anything about the repair until Wednesday afternoon. Apparently Danny was unable to get anyone to come repair the chairs so they were sadly unusable the rest of the trip.
It took another text on Thursday requesting the Kleenex and dryer sheets before Danny came over. We also asked while he was there if he could fix the TV which he did. (The dryer sheets never were brought over.)
We left on Friday morning.
Would we stay there again? It’s hard to say. We absolutely loved the location.
However, the unit needs some TLC and a decent cleaning crew.
The lack of follow through on Danny’s part was also frustrating.
We made the decision early on in our trip to not let these things bring us down and ruin our time in San Diego, but looking back now, it’s unfortunate how all these issues (mostly small but the unsafe hanging chairs were big) detracted from our vacation.