I, frankly, don’t understand the reviews at all. I’ll explain.
Maile was sweet and tried hard to be helpful with a couple problems. Also her communications was excellent. The location is very good, not great. A little bit of a hike to get to restaurants, the coffee shop and beach. But beautiful houses along the routes and I’m almost quibbling. Maybe 15 minutes windinsea beach and 20 for coffee.
Biggest problems were lack of heat and any place to hang out inside; I mean any. There’s a small table in the narrow hallway you can sit at. Fine for breakfast and just ok for working on a laptop, though chairs seemed like inexpensive breakfast chairs. But if you want to relax, you’re stuck with sitting in an ok bed with a frayed bed cover on the second floor.
Heat never worked so was 62 in morning and might make 65 in afternoon. In fairness outside the warmest was about 65. Maile told me the guy trying to fix it said he was waiting for a part. If the heat matters, ask if it’s been fixed. Maile did try to help w two portable heaters but they were a pain to carry around. If you wanted heat in kitchen you brought it in there, but the hallway (where kitchen table was) was cold. Same upstairs w bedroom and the bathroom. Nice bathroom, btw.
So I don’t get the fully positive reviews with no comments on a lack of any indoor place to hang out. Maybe at the pool, but no one used it while I was there; 60s is a pretty common temp in LaJolla. Maybe everyone before me was a summer guest and was always outside. Frankly I looked how you’d create fake reviews (about 40% of Amazon reviews are fake in some way), but I have no evidence these were.
Finally the place has an inexpensive tone esp compared to the 5 million dollar house (my sisters estimate who lives near) which it is attached to. I don’t get it.