Bottom Line: Quirky problems and non-existent communication cancel out the good location and cute space. If you want to stay in Old Town, you might find cheaper and more reliable hotel options.
Pros: Great location, probably one of the best in San Diego. Old Town is amazing, and its placement in San Diego is perfectly central. Also, the enclosed verandah is fantastic, and definitely something you won’t find in a hotel.
Cons: There are many little issues that make the place hard to stay in, particularly for four adults:
•	The ironing board, as provided, is useless (why give a hanging board when the only place it can hang has no access to an outlet for the iron?)
•	The televisions have thousands of channels and none of them work (lack of an updated set-top box means that there is no television)
•	The bathtub, which is advertised, cannot be used as a bathtub (there is no way to plug up the drain)
•	The verandah is inaccessible if people are sleeping in the living room (the sofa bed literally takes up all the space in the living room, making the entrance to the verandah in the cool mornings completely inaccessible)
•	The sofa bed is uncomfortable (it’s clearly quite old, tilts downward, and is even uncomfortable when just a sofa…and when trying to sit in it to read, the bed swung up and almost crushed me)
•	The kitchen lacks staples (if you want sugar in your coffee, you’ll need to step out)
•	You hear no noise from the streets, but lots from your neighbors (particularly when the other apartment is on loud business calls or has extremely annoying dogs)
•	The verandah is lovely but not so private (people can see you, and you can see and hear them)
The apartment is ABSOLUTELY not accessible for people with mobility concerns. And yet, nothing on the profile says this, and you only learn about this issue the day before, when it’s too late to cancel with a full refund.
There were zero response to the multiple messages sent through AirBNB outlining questions/concerns. The housing manual (only online…no printed copy at the location) says that they are available 24/7, but clearly they were not. We didn’t bother with the telephone number because AirBNB messaging should have been enough. When we finally received something, it was to remind us of the check-out procedures. The messages were clearly standardized and canned, and our concerns hadn’t been acknowledged.
After 2 days there, we seriously considered moving to a hotel in Old Town, because we knew that hotels would not have the aforementioned problems and the communication would be stronger. But we chose to stay because we were generally out during the day and we didn’t even know whether they’d register the cancelation, since they were unresponsive.