BUYER BEWARE! The photos of this place do NOT match the experience you will pay for. This place is 100% a rip off and 100% misleading as to what your experience will be.
To start, a month after we booked this space the listing changed, saying that the front patio would be a part of a construction zone. This was not the case when we booked and paid - if so we would not have rented the condo as the front patio overlooking the ocean was one of the main selling points. For a week, I tried to communicate w/ Vacasa AND Air BnB for some sort of clarification of what to expect and no one returned any calls after promising to connect me with someone local. We did not get any response until a day after we arrived apologizing and offering a $100 a night discount (insulting) for our "inconvenience" - for the record, the construction is adding a balcony / patio to the second floor. It was not completed when we arrived but at least there were no workers there.
Second, this place is filthy. All that beautiful white furniture you see in photos is heavily stained, and dirty. The front patio and back patio are in desperate need of a power wash. All the furniture is filthy, the grill was disgusting and chairs and umbrellas they make available for the beach are rusted and also dirty. When grabbing wine glasses, they were also dirty (not water spots but not clean). The carpets in the bedroom are stained terribly as well in EVERY ROOM. Many modifications have been made to the unit (front door / window coverings / some furniture) the photos showed a staged / bright space, what you get is a dark unwelcoming unit.
Summertime = crowded and no parking. While it says in the listing, PARKING ON PREMISES, this is NOT true. You will learn after you pay and book that they direct you to a parking garage TWO blocks (not one like they after the fact) away and the fob they gave us did not work, and I I had to pay $20 /day on the days we could not find street parking which is awful and only 2-3 hours at a time. On the weekend, there is an airstream selling coffee parked directly in front of the unit, with a VERY loud generator.
The place has AC - but only one setting: ON and OFF. So you either are FREEZING with it on, or when it is off, it feels muggy / damp because you are next to the water. There are ceiling fans which was a nice +.
Sheets on the bed are awful / cheap as well. Vacasa treats the bed like hotel beds, using a flat sheet in lieu of a fitted sheet, the bed in Master Suite was constantly losing the bottom sheet because it did not fit properly - JANKY is an understatement, and we woke up on the mattress numerous times. Bathroom towels are thin hotel towels.
The unit lacked basic amenities like hand soap in the kitchen and paper towels. Both of which we purchased.
The hot tub was filled with sand and the water cloudy and gross. Be careful sitting out there because you will get eaten alive by mosquitoes who like the water. 11 bites on my body and counting.
This home is not kid friendly. We had a teen with us so no issues here but if you have kids, this is not a great place. The stairs going up to the master are steep / concrete and no hand rail.
Check out is 10 a.m. - all the signs INSIDE the unit, state 11 a.m.
Lastly - you are in front of the ocean but not a proper beach, so you will have to drive to get to a beach like La Jolla Shores or North Pacific Beach.
The listing should be removed ASAP and we will be looking for a partial refund for this mess. We had no other options as it is high season in San Diego and there were no comparable places for us to try and with no one with both Vacasa and Air BnB getting back to us we could not just leave for a hotel unless we knew if we had a refund coming to us.