Here's a pros and cons list:
Pro: location - block and a half from the beach
Pro: Ana is very nice and helpful
Con: Parking and communication: it says it comes with two parking spots - at this proximity to the beach, and over memorial day weekend, you definitely need this - however, I arrived and their son's car was in the driveway and I'm messaging the hosts and no one responded so I parked in a neighbor's driveway and when the son came out, he began telling me I'd have to park in the street and that he wouldn't share the driveway (which is two cars long but only one car wide) and finally Ana came out and asked him to park elsewhere so I could park in the driveway. I didn't appreciate that being the way I was received. Parking shouldn't have been a fight.
And yet it happened again - I came home some other time and a friend of the son's was parked in the driveway and he was in the SHOWER so I had to wait until he was done and reparked so I could park.
Then there's communication: I had requested to shorten my stay a month before I arrived. They never responded. So I got AirBnb involved to get a response after waiting five or so days. I eventually got a rejection of my request. Which I understand - that's within the rights of the host to do so.
However, I get there and Edward comes outside and tells me he rejected my request because AirBnb was bothering him at all hours of the day. So I was penalized for having gotten AirBnb involved because *he* wasn't responding. He says to make it up to me I can come back at some random other time and stay for free. I told him, if you just allow me to alter the end of my trip, then I can have the same period of time for free AND you won't have to pay a cleaner. Which he initially accepted, so I made plans to leave this place early and put the request in with Airbnb.
And waited...again. And again, despite having agreed in person, he rejected that offer - even though my version of the offer making much more financial sense (and also, the dates I could come back were at his discretion, so that makes zero logistical sense for me). I tried to reason with him and he continued to say "that's just how we do it - we're not a hotel" which just frustrated me more.
So I spent much of my trip either waiting for an answer on whether I'd get $651 dollars back for days I had already decided I wouldn't stay there (since he'd initially said I could leave early and I made other plans) or fighting for the parking spot.
Pro: good wifi and cable
Con: the bathroom is in the kitchen and there's no kitchen sink to wash dishes, and the fridge is the RedBull tiny fridge you see in the image, so if you have tall items, they may not fit.
Note: Surfboards that they say you can use are both damaged to the point that they would take on a lot of water and be hard to use.