The place was attractive and modern and in a great location but there are a number of significant issues that I wish I'd known before I rented.
1. The host wants you to communicate off of the Airbnb site privately with him and another individuals, you have to manage two cell phone contacts and they want to send you electronic files so you understand the check-in process which is overly complicated. The problem is when you don't receive the files you have to reach out to them repeatedly to try and get the information you need. Their communication was inconsistent and when I finally got someone on the phone because I never received the information I needed for check-in and was currently traveling to the location. The woman who answered the phone was rude and not very helpful.
Once you do arrive at your location you have to meet with a check in specialist in one location and then go to a different location to get into the building.
This check-in process is ridiculously complicated and there are potential problems at checkout if their electronic gates to the garage or not working.
Also this is an apartment with multiple bedrooms yet there's only one parking space so if you have more than one car because you are a party of several people meeting you're going to have to figure out the parking elsewhere in the neighborhood which is crowded and congested due to the nightlife and lots of construction.
Another issue was San Diego currently does not have a mask mandate so even though they were in huge covid surges, reporting 65,000 new cases of covid in the 14 days prior to my arrival no one was wearing a mask, so as you try and get to your seventh floor airbnb rental you'll encounter people every few floors trying to get into the small elevator with you without a mask and unwilling to put on masks.
The other issue is the constant noise from the street, even though you are seven floors up the windows are not double-paned and you hear all of the street noise. Daytime high-rise construction noise all day long which went until past 7 p.m. on Friday night and then the nightlife noise starts and lasts until after 2 a.m. Loud music from clubs and bars as well as cars racing up and down the street and drunk yelling. Then on Saturday morning after the Friday night club noise finally settled down the high-rise construction started again at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning! This is not even legal to be doing commercial construction at this time of day but somehow they're getting away with it in this location of San Diego. The only time we didn't have constant continuous outside noise filling our rental space was Sunday daytime before the nightclubs started up again.
Another frustrating point was this rental unit has a couple of outside balconies however they have padlock the doors to them and so you have no outside balcony access. When I messaged the check in host to ask for combination for the padlocks so we could enjoy the outside balcony I was told we are not allowed per their rental agreement with the management company.
Definitely not the place to stay if you prefer easy in-and-out access or a quiet space.