Laurel and Steve are wonderful hosts... the home was clean and ready for us to take over and start our Menlo Park/Palo Alto adventure...the cottage location is perfect for accessing Stanford, downtown Menlo Park, downtown Palo Alto and a nice scenic drive to San Francisco on either the 101 or 280. Our group easily accessed both SFO and San Jose airports.

We loved walking to Wildberry yogurt in a shopping center just up the street--and having such ready access from the cottage to Peet's and Starbucks coffee, Safeway, open air markets (we found one on our way to delicious dim sum at Ming's) and the Stanford shopping center.

Night time was quiet and our gaggle of women felt very safe in the cottage. Perfection was the quaint grassy yard--our youngest traveling member enjoyed crawling in the backyard as the weather was temperate.

We highly recommend this cottage and these hosts for anyone looking for a quality rooming situation that is low key, peaceful and close to everything in the Bay Area.