I highly recommend this place. I have so many positive things to say that I'll do it bullet point style:
Property:
- 7 of us (2 adults 5 children) slept and spent time here very nicely.
- Beds and bedding are clean and very comfortable, furniture is in great shape and comfortable
- The decor is amazing, it's a truly lovely place, purposefully designed to feel like a clean, fresh beach house
- We loved spending each night on the 3rd floor balcony, there is great seating, cafe lights for ambiance, and the peace and great weather of a San Diego beach. This was a real highlight of the trip.
- some places don't live up to the pictures, that's not the case with this property, if anything, it's better than the pictures and it exceeded our expectations in every way
- Appliances appear to be brand new and everything worked very well
- There is a great ground level patio that we loved spending time on
Location:
- Approximately 200 yards from an amazing wide and clean sandy beach
- Approximately 150 yards from a quite bay (perfect for SUP - stand up paddle boarding)
- Lots of restaurants, shops, and rental shops
- a great boardwalk within walking distance that must be at least a couple of miles long. Exploring it was so much fun.
Activities:
- The owners provided an amazing amount of equipment, all well cared for, including: ~8 Tommy Bahama beach chairs, 2 Stand up paddle boards, 5 body boards, one 8' surf board, 3 beach umbrellas, a nice collapsable beach wagon, beach blanket, 2 nicely maintained beach cruiser style bikes, paddle board game, volleyball net and ball, frisbees, sand toys for little ones, and more. Having all of this at hand really made all the difference. Every day we loaded the wagon and headed to the beach
- Our favorite activity was body boarding, and we had all 5 boards in the water at the same time, most of the time
- Stand up paddle boarding on the bay was very fun
Communication:
- The owners were excellent to work with, I highly recommend them
- timing, check in, and everything we needed to discuss was easily done through airbnb messaging
I could say a lot more, but I thought it would be helpful to list what we saw. I couldn't recommend this place more highly. This was a core family memory type of trip for us, and we appreciate the owners sharing their place with us.