I just spent a wonderful week staying at Casita By The Bay.
I was met by the host Carla who immediately made me feel very welcome. The apartment at the back of her home is perfect.
It's a very large room and bathroom that's very well furnished, large comfortable bed, nice couch and large screen TV, a fast WiFi connection, a very well stocked kitchen area, and everything is immaculately kept. Plenty of fresh towels for the bathroom, and blankets for the bed, plus a dresser and closet for clothing. And being in the back of their home, it's very quiet and private. Carla explained how everything worked and then gave me information on local shops and restaurants and directions on parking, which there's lots of right in front of the house.
Her home is in a very nice neighborhood about a 10 minute walk into the town of San Mateo, which has a lot of very good restaurants and shops. It's also about a 10 minute walk to local Safeway supermarket and Starbucks, which is very handy.
The town of Burlingame, which also has very good shopping and restaurants is only about a 5 minute drive north of San Mateo. And just south of San Mateo there's the towns of Belmont, San Carlos and Redwood City which also have some very good restaurants and shops.
San Francisco Airport is just about 15 minutes away in good traffic on highway 101, and it's also close to the highways 92, 280, and about 30 minutes into San Francisco.
I was taking a course at the San Francisco Baking Institute in South San Francisco, so this was and ideal location to get to class and back. I'd highly recommend staying here, it's a great spot with a very nice host, I only hope she has room when I come back for my next baking course.