Our host Colleen was welcoming, and contacted us with messages before our stay giving detailed instructions. She arranged free parking in Santa Cruz for us as we had planned to go there (were unable to go unfortunately). The neighborhood is nice and a short walk to the beach. The place was small but nice, she lives on the top floor with a separate entrance. It did feel a bit like a shared rental because although there were separate entrances and different floors, the sounds traveled - we heard her upstairs a little - and I worried (perhaps unnecessarily) about being noisy ourselves. There were snack bars and water, fruit in the small fridge that we appreciated. We used the microwave to make the popcorn she also had available. The beds were extremely comfortable. There were plenty of outlets/surge protectors that made it handy to charge our cell phones by our beds at night. It was a comfortable place to spend the night.