Great location & easy check-in. Then reality set in...
-We looked forward to spending time outside on the furnished, spacious balcony pictured in the listing (at least as of mid-July 2022). It turns out photos do lie. That must be a balcony in some other place. The real balcony was small, dirty, & unfurnished. The only chairs were the precarious high-top stools in the apartment that could not work, much less be comfortable, on a 5th-floor balcony. So the balcony was useless.
-Fortunately the balcony door did open, so we could get some cooler air into the apartment because the air conditioner never actually cooled it. (The AC ran for days but the compressor did not, except an hour or so on our last morning.) After contacting the owners, they told us to "reset breakers" (duh; done) and adjust the thermostat settings (duh; we tried many, many settings), and promised to send have maintenance to check. That never happened. It was mid-July warm, so unpleasant without AC. The supplied fan helped some, supplemented with a mesh screen we bought keep out bugs. Kinda like camping! In the middle of San Diego!
-If you stay there more than a day or so, bring your own toilet paper. The owners told us they would replenish the supply, but never did.
-Maybe also bring your own dishwasher soap, since there was none there. The owners told us to go to the store and buy some for the apartment. Guess we missed that soap for the dishwasher was not a supplied "amenity."
-Final note: the owners told us not to tell anyone we were staying in an Airbnb. The purported reason was that
"some people love it and some people hate it, so for your privacy, it’s best to only mention that you are 'staying with John.'" Really? First time we've ever been told to keep Airbnb hush-hush. Is this place legit?