Overall this is a beautiful home. The photos are accurate. Great kitchen, comfortable living room, comfortable bedrooms. The pool area is the highlight of the home. Pool is truly outstanding with large pool, hot tub, grill, bar area, and lounge chairs. The home was very clean and well maintained. Overall we enjoyed our stay.
However, we scored it as "4 stars" due to the following 3 issues:
1. Noise level. The home is in close proximity to San Diego airport, to freight train tracks, and to the interstate highway. As such, it is noisy.
2. Host communication related to checkin. There were multiple messages exchanged with host related to checkin time. Ultimately, the unit was not ready at the agreed upon checkin time.
3. Pool heating fee. The best feature of this home is the outstanding pool area. The host requested an incremental charge to heat the pool. Given the high nightly rental rate for this home, it felt like "nickel and diming" to charge an extra fee to heat the pool.