Let me start by saying we very much enjoyed our stay at Toni & Cori’s place in Pacific Beach. The place was super clean and well appointed. The location is very hard to beat, being 3 blocks from the beach, less than a 10 minute walk. Off street parking for two is a great plus. The main drags along Garnet or Mission Blvd, less than a mile away, have a ton of options for eating out or getting groceries. If you didn’t want to drive or walk, there are bird scooters right out the front door.
If you want to explore the other sites of San Diego I think everything we wanted to “in town” do was no more than 30 minutes away by car.
With that as a preface, and note that I did give this a 5 star rating, I think there are some details I wish we had known:
1) Hosts do clearly state TV is streaming only. The key additional detail is that it is via Samsung’s Smart Hub apps. These are limited, particularly on the older TVs in the bedrooms. In the bedrooms we essentially only had Netflix and Amazon Prime from the various mainstream options. The living room does support Hulu, ESPN, and a couple others (but not Fox sports which we wanted to be able to cheer on the Padres advance to the NLCS while we were there). I couldn’t even figure out how to screen cast to the TV even though the internet suggested I ought to be able to do so. We did have an issue where the main living room TV lost it’s internet connection and we then could not watch anything our last two evenings. I did suggest to the hosts look into getting an over-the-air antenna.
2) WiFi could have been better. It would occasionally drop out and the streaming quality would diminish if more than one of the TVs were in use at the same time. If you really needed a high bandwidth connection for work, you might be disappointed
3) Next door is a local restaurant with patio dining. Until they close (at a reasonable ~9:30p) it may sound like you’re missing out on a great party. If you have family that wants an earlier bedtime, you may find this a bit of an inconvenience.
4) We found the bed to be a bit firm to our liking in the bedroom without the attached bath.
5) If you expect to be eating in, plan to do dishes frequently. While there are plenty of plates, we were consistently running out of clean silverware with our group of 4-5.