We stayed at Kelly's Hillcrest cottage for a week while getting my son settled into school at UCSD. The house is small and older and cute, and located perfectly to access all the great things the Hillcrest neighborhood has to offer. It was within walking distance to many great food options and conveniences like groceries and drugstores. Parking is metered or limited by time, but most often we were able to snag the spot right in front of the house or else somewhere on the block or down the cross-street. We got one expired meter ticket which was our fault because we honestly only occasionally paid the meter & got away with it the rest of the time haha. It's in an urban atmosphere, but always felt safe, even though there's a fair number of homeless/mentally ill in the area. In my experience that's typical of San Diego though and it didn't stop us from walking around at night. We didn't have any issues with typical city noise - actually the nice fans in the house provide nice white noise as well as cool off the house and get the air moving when it's a warmer day. When we were there we also kept the front inner door open (with the outer door locked) and that helped to keep it cool too. Evenings were always comfortable. Both beds are pretty uncomfortable, as other reviewers have said. If it's just one person sleeping on the sofabed they might be more comfortable just sleeping on the couch and not opening the bed. Something I loved was that the shower had really great water pressure and the hot water lasted forever even through the whole family getting ready. Kitchen had what we needed to cook, although we didn't much because there are so many good restaurants in San Diego. Kelly was super accessible and checking in and out with the lockbox was easy. We'd love to stay there again next time we're in town. I swear it never took more than 20 minutes to get to any of the other parts of town we wanted to go so it's a great location in general on top of being in a fun neighborhood.