Choose wisely. The Gaslamp area is not for everyone. It’s loud at night, with men compensating for their inadequacies with obnoxiously loud auto exhausts, and garbage trucks banging early in the morning. Add that to the City’s complete lack of attention to the homeless problem and, after your fun evening out, you’ll be covering your ears and dodging bodies in the sidewalks on the way home.
For the unit, it’s quite nice. Clean, comfortable bed and large accommodations. It’s great to have garage parking. The unit lacks a bit of interior light though, and housekeepers should remember not to use a sour-smelling mop.
Our significant complaint was the inaccurate directions on entry. The instructions were simply wrong! Arriving late at night, having to park in front of the garage door, in a bike lane, on a very busy sidewalk, and solve the puzzle of lock box identification and code entry was extremely frustrating. It took 15 minutes and a call to Vacasa to figure out that the instructions were wrong. This is easily fixed and I hope they do. As our only compensation, we got sincere apologies, not the hour later checkout we needed a couple days later. Vacasa isn’t flexible on checkouts - even when they don’t deliver on their responsibility for a smooth process of accessing the unit. And I don’t buy that it takes them 6 hours to clean a 1 BR apartment lightly lived in.
Next time, we will stay at a hotel.