Pro:
- Location: close to Downtown, Little Italy, Coronado island and many other prime locations in SD
- Free parking provided on site
Con:
- Odor/Smell: there was an extremely awful odor from the kitchen are that extended through the restroom. It smelled like a old food/urine/sewer odor that really bothered me. I notified the host right away for this smell and they sent out a cleaning crew next day to "deep clean" the area again but that didn't help at all. It seemed like they just put some portable Febreze in the kitchen area to hide the smell away. The host insisted to have the cleaning crew come out again but we declined since we don't want unknown people keep coming into out unit when we're not there and extra cleaning didn't help with the odor.
After we came back home from the trip, we noticed that ALL our clothes were embedded with this awful odor from the house that we had to wash all the clothes that we didn't even wear to get the smell out. Even our dog smelled like the odor from the house lol Me and my husband are still so traumatized by this smell from staying here.
- Cleanliness: There were still unknown long pieces of hair inside the bed telling us the bed wasn't fully cleaned
- Trash: we paid over $120 for cleaning fee and turns out that we (the tenants) had to take out the trash by ourselves. If not, we would get charged for it. Also, the area to throw away the trash was so complicated. You have to put this code in to unlock the lock and it didn't open so easily and we had to stand in front of the garbage can for ~5 mins just trying to throw the trash away. Yuck.
- Sound: the soundproof is not so good. You can hear the coughing/talking sound from the women downstairs. Also, the unit is located close to the airport so you can clearly hear the airplane sounds above your head every morning.
- Water pressure from the bathroom shower head was awful. It felt like rain shower dripping over your head and took so long to shower
Overall, not the best experience with Airbnb. We chose to stay at Airbnb for this trip since we brought our small dog but the quality of this place didn't exceed the price we payed for.
Hopefully the host can figure out where the odor is coming from and fix it before they release the unit to next trip.