We really enjoyed our stay at Johns place and he was very receptive throughout booking and our stay. We rented the entire place and the garden is a lovely place to eat breakfast. We didn't use the kitchen much as we were only there for a few days but it had everything we needed. The bedroom is small but comfortable, there isn't much room for large cases (we had been in the US for a few weeks prior to our stay) but we had a car so just took out what we needed and put the big cases in the car.
I probably wouldn't want to stay here without a car as the Ubers would start to get expensive but you can drive anywhere in 15/20 minutes so it wasn't a problem for us! We got an uber to Pacific Beach and back and it was about $20 each way and took around 20 minutes.
All in all a great trip and would highly recommend staying here....!