Too expensive for what it was. The hotel we moved to was almost half the price for more room and more privacy. This listing should be advertised as a room in someone’s house given the lack of privacy and the micromanaging rules. For example, they have white sheets, but have a sign asking people to wipe their faces before bed so as not to stain the sheets rather than simply having dark sheets, and while the place is advertised as no smoking (very common), what they actually mean is no smoking inside, outside, or *within view* of the property (they ask you to go for a walk around the block rather than sit on the balcony or in the yard). I don’t smoke, and normally I use Air BnB for work, but this time I was travelling with my husband, who does smoke, and while a host has the right to ask for whatever rules to be followed that they would like, in my experience there is a difference between the listings where you are staying in someone’s house and following the rules of the house, and those with more privacy where you pay a bit more but have more autonomy. This was priced for the latter, but the experience was of the former. Given that we paid $800 for 4 nights, it also seemed unfortunate that, when we asked if they had a kettle we could use they just said no rather than getting a $20 kettle at the local Walgreens (which we ended up doing ourselves) so that future customers could use it. And to top it all off, most of the windows didn’t open and the whole place smelled musty. It all just felt like someone trying to get the most money possible for the least product — and I have stayed in many an Air BnB worldwide. In short, we wanted a cute Santa Cruz experience but given the high cost of the room in relation to the hotel we moved to after, the whole thing seemed absolutely not worth it and we found it so uncomfortable that we left early.