This place is just a garage that's been turned into a bedroom. Be careful about that and know what you're getting yourself into. here's my experience:
pros:
* Decent location, although certainly not at the heart of action in Little Italy
* Very clean, no problema at all with cleanliness
* King size bed, it's very important for me personally to have plenty of real estate for sleeping.
Cons:
* THIS IS A GARAGE turned into a bedroom.
* Airplane noise: exactly on the path of the airplanes that land at the San Diego airport. You'll hear jet engines go by ever 3-4 minutes, very loud and clear (and will even see them through the window). This was a major issue for me as I constantly got startled in my sleep both late at night and early in the morning. Horrible experience with the noise.
* Street noise: the door to this place opens to the street and there is absolutely no insulation. you'll be sleeping 20 feet from this door so expect to hear absolutely everything on the street, including cars, people going by, and the car wash that is the next door neighbor and shares a wall with the room (the have a super loud water pump or something). my first night I was hearing a loud party somewhere close in the neighborhood until about 1:30 AM. The second night at around 2 AM, a few people had congregated right outside my door and we're talking and laughing out loud, which messed up my sleep.
* Train noise: My third night I woke up at 3:30 AM to the horrifying horn of the train and its engine.
* The hosts: BRING YOUR OWN BATH SUPPLIES. DO NOT EXPECT TO HAVE ANYTHING BUT A TERRIBLE SHAMPOO IN THE SHOWER. First of all, this is not something you should have to worry about and definitely should be provided by the host. Anyhow, for my first shower I had to make to with the terrible shampoo as I realized this too late and I was already in the shower. Afterwards, I asked the hosts multiple times to send me a shower gel and other shower supplies (was there for 4 nights). The next day I was out all day and when I returned at 9:30 PM I saw a new bottle of the SAME terrible shampoo sitting on the table. Just by itself. Needless to say I continued to ask the host to send me shower gel and so on but never received it. Instead, they had the guts to send me a message asking me if I wanted to extend my stay at a discounted rate. NO THANKS.
* The bathroom: Extremely uncomfortable wash sink! It was really really hard to brush my teeth or wash my hands here because of how the sink is situated right under the cabinet. There is HARDLY any room for you to use the sink and you'd have to shove your head under the cabinet to spit out and remember not to bang your head against the cabinet after you're done.
* The shower: really really small and tight space (I believe it's the space under a staircase). Someone my size can hardly move in there.
And here's what upset me the most about the hosts: in their checkout instructions email, they asked me to leave any positive reviews publicly but write ONLY TO THEM PRIVATELY about my negative experiences. In my books, this is completely unacceptable and borders on fraud, if not outright fraud. If previous guests have agreed to this, no wonder the place has so many issues but almost a perfect review score.
In summary, if you're very thick skinned and don't give a damn about any of the things I mentioned, go ahead and book it.