To start off with the positives, the hosts seem to be kind people. They offer reimbursement if you choose to park in the paid parking lot across the street.
We were only staying in SD for one night, and this cottage looked like a good, cute stay. We arrived on time for our check-in, but received a notice saying they would have to push it back a few hours due to maintenance issues. This was annoying, but out of their hands - and the hosts offered a reimbursement for this inconvenience. Thank you.
However, when we did finally check in, we were very disappointed. The space is fine, and the hosts clearly put effort into decorating it, but it was not clean. The primary gray couch had multiple large stains (of varying concerning colors...), there was trash under the couch from previous guests (I'm assuming), the kitchen counters were grimy, the white leather ottoman was visibly dirty (when wiped with a damp paper towel, you could see the dirt and grime come right up.. so it clearly wasn't cleaned).
We felt so uncomfortable, we ended up sleeping on our towels laid over the bed, and left at 6am rather than the planned 11am check out time. I contacted AirBnB and the hosts afterwards to report the condition, but was told that I should have contacted while I was there. Though I understand this, and I will be doing this in the future, it also feels unreasonable in our situation, where we were only staying 1 night (8pm to 6am). We booked the stay and checked in expecting things to already be at least decently cleaned (esp in this pandemic). Even if we had contacted the host when we checked in at 8pm, it would have taken several hours to get it checked out, cleaning done, etc... AND not everything could have even been cleaned - the couch is so stained and gross it wouldn't have made a difference.
Anyways, I apologize for the negative review, as I'm sure the hosts are nice people, but this was truly a bad experience. Please consider booking a different home for your stay, unless you don't mind dirt and grime and stains everywhere.