For a family vacation, the location of this house on mission beach is perfect. Close enough to walk to restaurants but not in the busy, noisy sections of the beach. The beach itself has soft sand. The waves are big and powerful so our 3 year old could only play in the very shallow areas or we’d walk over to the bay side (only 2 blocks away). The corner store is great for small grocery shops. Lots of attractions are within a short distance. The house is clean and comfortable with ample room. The only downside is that there isn’t really an inside dining table, but you can use the counter or eat outside (which is what we did when possible). The heat went out on us during our stay and the owners promptly got a handyman over the next day to fix it. I was worried about the parking space so I’ll try to speak to that situation. Basically, the issue is that the garage is 8.5 feet wide and the alley doesn’t leave you a ton of room to maneuver. That said, we were able to back in a very large SUV (Denali) but it only left a few inches to each side - so everyone else got out before we backed in and then I backed in with a spotter (closing the rear view mirrors to make it fit) and then I crawled out the back of the car. I imagine that it would be very hard to park a car of any size and get out through the driver side door. Also, we never saw an open space on the bordering street where there is free parking during our 7 days there. So basically, if you are confident reversing and let everyone else unload first and are either very skinny or have a way to get out through the back of the car, you can make the garage work. Finally, the BBQ wasn’t working correctly and one of the bikes has a busted tire (won’t hold air) but we alerted the owners to these things so we hope they’ll be fixed for the next person. It’s pricey compared to some of the other homes we saw on AirBnB but we would likely stay here again if we came back to San Diego.