We stayed at this house in August we had 2 families. 4 adults, 10 yo, 8 yo, 6 yo, (2) 5 yo’s, 3 yo, 2 yo and 2 infants. Jesse and the owner were very accommodating and didn’t charge us extra for the kiddos.
The house itself was a bit of a puzzle it’s on a very busy street and when you first come in you probably miss your turn into the alley. You are suppose to unload all your stuff in the garage and walk it to the front door which is super inconvenient specially if you are in a large family and have a lot of luggage. The house is inside a 3 unit building.. Meaning you share the parking with two other units garage is a giant outside parking lot. Which you are ask to not walk through the gate doors of those units to get to the house to not disrupt the tenants. So you have to walk through the alley to get to the front door of the house each time you have to get to your car.
The alley itself is filled with homeless people and our wives didn’t feel comfortable walking to the car during the night and sometimes during the day on one of the days we were there someone had pooped right by the garage door. They say you could fit 3 cars parked tandem but we had 2 and there’s no way we could have fit another vehicle so unless you have small cars don’t count on fitting 3 cars.
The house itself is pretty great it has 3 very spacious bedrooms and multiple extra beds and bedding. The living room is comfortable and cozy. The dining table is great fits a lot of people. The kitchen was plenty big for the few days we stayed plenty of plates, pots and pans, silverware and had everything we needed to cook. Plenty of towels.
Long list of rules including a strict 65db volume at all times. Just to give you an idea, the AC units in the property are over 65db. So if you have a crying baby / child you’re technically breaking the rules. I don’t think this was the intended spirit of the rule here but just wanted to point it out. You kinda feel like you have to walk on eggshells in a less than ideal environment, while you have bums feet away and loud cars / motorcycles passing just out front all hours. We were concern with a previous review about the noise level since we have children but it was a stressor but we had absolutely no issues.
The outside space was great for our kids they had plenty of activities and places to play. The jacuzzi was wonderful perfect to enjoy after a long day at the beach. It did smell of urine around it not sure where it was coming from it could have been from the homeless in the alley or from a dog.
The beach is a 20 min walk plenty to see and wonderful weather you’ll enjoy the ocean breeze. The house had a tv which was nice to enjoy with plenty of streaming options to enjoy. The outside table with fire pit was great to enjoy on a chilling night. They also had a few boogie boards and beach chairs and sunshade to use.
We found did find a cockroach on the last night of our stay and got no response about it. One of the rooms smelled like pee when we first arrived and the toilet in the master room was broken but Jesse sent someone to fix it right away.
Jesse was wonderful he responded promptly and also had a great welcome folder with a lot of information and recommendation for things to do around the area. Over all we enjoyed our vacation and the house was a good home base.