I'd recommend staying Marisa's guest house. It's a great location close to Balboa Park and good food. After booking, Marisa was very communicative with us. It's a cool open studio with a great walk-in stone shower. The place shares a courtyard with the main house and they were doing some construction on the main house while we were there. So if you plan on staying in or are sensitive to noise, I'd recommend checking on that before booking. It wasn't an issue for us because we didn't stay at the place much.