Wife, our boxer dog, and myself drove down from the Seattle area. We arrived at 11pm the day of check-in. Check-in was a breeze. Very simple instructions. However, the last thing I wanted to do was unload and take several trips down/up on some really uneven stairs to go around to the back to get to the studio.
The studio was super cute. Felt like it could have been cleaned a little better. There was a lot of stuff we noticed that were left really dusty. Floors felt sticky like when you just use hand sanitizer over & over without washing them. There was a smell like the place hadn’t be aired out in a while. I would recommend a thorough deep cleaning.
Furniture is just a full sized day bed, desk with a missing drawer, one chair, computer monitor that was in the closet, a laptop Chromebook, (we brought our Firestick), everything you needed to shower with & cook with. (There was no cooking oil so we bought one and left it behind.) The ketchup in the fridge was expired (from 2019) so we threw that out. Not sure about the other condiments. The curtains on the windows were white and see-thru-ish. We brought our own beddings and we used ours to cover up the windows to feel more private. In a previous review, someone mentioned about the fan so I decided to bring ours instead. The private porch isn’t really private. Next door neighbors were moving in so they were in/out of their deck and there’s a window facing the private porch so there were many times eyes were met, lol. Also, they re-arranged and took away/added different furniture. I almost thought we entered the wrong studio. (Now it’s just a teal table with 2 chairs, a big rug, portable chimney & a fake plant.) Since we brought our own chairs, we used those instead. It was nice hanging out in the afternoon basking in the sun. My dog is picky where she uses the bathroom (it *HAS* to be grass), so we had to walk down and around for her to use it. Pretty cool walk because of the canyon. (Glad we brought our flashlight bc I forget how early it gets dark here in the summer time compared to Seattle in the summer time.) She’s also not used to having upstairs neighbors so whoever was above us walking around, she’d get nervous. (She is a big scaredy-cat tho.) For a quiet neighborhood, you can hear everything. Even heard someone snoring from upstairs.
Location was awesome. Coming back from our daily adventures and always finding parking was a HUGE plus for me. We also loved the fact that there was a washer/dryer on-site. AirBnb was literally near everything and we had fun riding our E-bikes. I don’t know much of San Diego so it was fun venturing out. Unfortunately, we are leaving a day early so that we can try to beat holiday traffic on our trek back home.
Thank you, Heather for allowing us to stay here, especially with our dog!!