It was my first time in San Diego. My boyfriend and I needed a place to stay for two nights and City had this listing. From previous reviews we thought this would be a great place to stay.
The information provided for the key is fairly well prepared. However...
The location of where the lock box is fools you into thinking that you are staying in a nicer area of downtown. It's about 10 mins away from the actual air bnb. The streets around the apartment has a bunch of homeless people and it smells of urine all around the complex. Inside the apartments the hallways smells of smoke, urine, and a combination of smells that gives you a headache as you walk down to the very end unit where the air bnb is located.
The air bnb itself seems nice at first. Its a cute studio apartment but it is on the second floor so you can hear the upstairs neighbors stomping around in the morning. The sheets didn't seem to have been washed and the floors were dirty from people wearing their shoes inside. Which gave me the sense that the cleaning fee is a joke since they do not mop the floors.
My boyfriend wanted to take a shower and pulled the curtains aside and a pair of worn wet mens boxers came falling down from the curtain rods. We were horrified and disgusted that this was missed during their "cleaning". It made me feel like nothing was cleaned and just briefly turned around to make it seem clean.
I contacted the air bnb host and they apologized and tried to bribe me with a partial refund to not write a bad review. I was again disappointed by the actions of this host. It was unethical of them to try to bribe me into not writing a honest review. I feel that others should know how my truthful experience was so that they can have a better experience.