This is a reasonable little place and overall we enjoyed our stay. Here are my pros and cons:
Pros:
- Excellent location for Pacific Beach, Balboa Park, Point Loma, La Jolla, etc. Everything was between a 5-15 minute drive, which is great for SoCal.
- Apartment is clean and comfortable.
- The neighborhood is quiet and seemed safe.
- Cost value was good.
Cons:
- Like the hosts explain, parking is difficult. We had to deal with street cleaning issues because we were there on a weekday, but it didn't cause us too much trouble.
- Communication from the hosts was lacking for us. We sorted out all of the problems we had on our own (i.e. we couldn't find the entrance code and didn't realize the Google Home was acting as the router when we had internet issues), but no one ever answered our messages/calls or followed up. If we had had a real problem I feel like it would have gone badly. The messages that were sent were also really long and had too much information in them, so it was hard to parse and felt like I was talking to a bot. I wish this information was in a binder in the apartment or something.
- The apartment could use one or two more household items like a bathmat, but it's not a huge issue.