My husband and I traveled to San Diego from NY with our two kids and stayed at Cheyann’s place. We are not familiar with San Diego so we decided to stay in Mission Beach. I received a LONG message prior to our trip which included a code for the lockbox. Upon arrival the lockbox did not work so I contacted the property manager, when he did not answer I called Cheyann. She was quick to inform me of a message I received from the property manager with an updated code and apologized that I missed the code. I never received a message with the updated code, but no big deal we had gotten in.
So the space itself is very cute. Modern and fun, it’s definitely a space I would stay if not in Mission Beach. The property is on a small alley behind beachfront properties, there are dumpsters and trash cans on the street. I felt instant regret as soon as we got into the Mission Beach area. There were homeless people up and down the streets and it was not a clean area. When we arrived in CA it was hot and STICKY, which we were told by locals is pretty uncommon but not having an AC was pretty brutal. We were on the first floor which got very little wind from the beach. We kept the windows open which was an absolute nightmare as there were people digging through the garbage cans right outside our window. At one point we were sitting and eating dinner and there were people picking through the cans at eye-level. This happened all night long and kept us up! On our last night, after two days at the beach with two kids, we really needed to do laundry. When my husband went in to do laundry there were plastic bags filled with towels and other laundry piled to the point where you couldn’t even access the laundry. It was a mess to say the least. We had booked for three nights and by the second night we were done and left the property.
Overall, not a place I would stay again more so because of the area.