Do not stay here!! No working heat! Not very clean or nice.
We happened to book a three night’s stay over Presidents Day weekend in February. I live in Chicago and was thrilled to get out of the cold weather and snow for a weekend in San Diego. Unfortunately, it happened to be unseasonably cold that weekend in Southern California, with high winds and even some rain storms.
However, the outdoor weather would have been fine except the heater in the apartment did not work. At all. When we arrived we turned up the thermostat. Nothing happened. A couple of hours later we realized the heater was completely off. We contacted the host, who was out of town. Turns out we needed to light the pilot light. We used YouTube, figured it out and did that. The heater turned on but barely put out any heat.

The next morning, we woke to a freezing cold apartment. The pilot light had gone out again. We contacted the host and asked him to bring several space heaters. He was still out of town but asked a cleaning person to do the errand. Unfortunately that did not happen. We were told that the cleaning person tried but 2 stores had sold out of space heaters. He then suggested we go buy them and get reimbursed. Which we did not want to deal with during our vacation! Not to mention I didn’t have a car.
Finally we found a space heater in a closet, which the host was not even aware existed. It worked ok but only heated 1 room at a time. There were four people split between 2 bedrooms so only one room had heat at night.
After the stay I requested a refund for one night. This seemed reasonable given all our trouble and the lack of a working heater for the apartment for all three nights. This request was denied so I proceeded to use the AirBnb Resolution Center. If no refund is issued within 72 hours I will elevate to AirBnb. (Instead of a refund I was offered a discount on a future stay. Laughable!! I definitely won’t be going back to this one!!)
Working heat is not an amenity. It’s a necessity, even in San Diego. The lows were in the upper 40s during our stay and the apartment was quite cold.
Maybe this is an ok place most of the time, particularly in the summer. But do you really want to deal with a host that treats guests like this? Your choice.
Also - the host is not the owner but some kind of paid manager. He attempted to help but ultimately was not able to resolve the situation.