Our stay at Patricia's place was perfect. We spent a week here, and it was a great home base for our vacation in San Diego.
The cottage is perfect for a couple - we had everything we needed during our stay. We loved having a kitchen; we were out and about most of the time, but cooked our breakfasts here. The coffee stand across the street is great; we had seen other reviews mentioned it, so we didn't bother to buy any coffee making supplies at the Target Express, which is conveniently located across the street; it was perfect for picking up breakfast groceries, snacks and various sundries that we needed throughout the trip.
While we spent most of our time out and about, I do have to say it was WONDERFUL to come back to a super comfortable bed at the end of each day. We always got a good night's sleep.
We enjoyed the little patio out back, as well as the seating out front. Although the cottage was on a busy street, we never had any issue with noise.
It was also great to have access to a full size washer & dryer. It's nice to come home from a vacation with NO LAUNDRY!
Patricia has thought of everything and there are little notes throughout the cottage indicating where we can find certain things we would need, labeling the light switches etc. We also appreciated the big beach towels that were in the linen closet. Being from New England, we don't often get beach days in late October so didn't think to bring towels.
As first time visitors to San Diego, we didn't realize just how spread out everything was. We were glad we ended up in a neighborhood that had a lot of nice restaurants and cafes; it's also only about a mile to North Park, which we also enjoyed time in. We definitely highly recommend the Italian restaurant across the street (Picare Mio I think?). Best meal of our trip, and we ate out a lot. While we did enjoy the neighborhood, we were VERY happy with our decision to rent a car for the trip, and would suggest other visitors do the same. It is MUCH more spread out than we expected. Things that on a map looked like they were close almost always ended up being about 7-10 miles away (This doesn't necessarily reflect on the AirBnB location, just more of a useful tip to other first time visitors - I don't think any location in SD would be super central since a lot of the good stuff is scattered and spread out)
We overall enjoyed our stay and if we find ourselves in San Diego again, we would definitely check to see if this place is available.