My husband, 9 month old baby and I stayed here this August for 4 nights and overall had a wonderful time in San Sebastián. We were debating staying at a hotel versus Airbnb but ended up choosing Airbnb as we wanted to be closer to the surfing beach and have access to a washing machine for the (insane) amount of clothing babies go through, and we also weren’t familiar with any of the listed local hotels. Ultimately, there were pros and cons of this choice like everything in life.
Pros:
1) VERY close to both the surfing beach and old city — very walkable city, everything immediately accessible.
2) Clean apartment.
3) Oscar is very responsive at all hours of the day and even allowed us early check in and late check out (this would be dependent on other bookings of course).
Cons:
1) Loud! The apartment is above a busy restaurant/bar scene street. Part of this was the time of year — both a special Pinchos event on one night during our stay, then Semana Grande on other nights. Windows cut out most of the noise, but to keep the rooms with air flowing, we had to open some windows. Additionally, construction was occurring in the immediately next door apartment (not the host’s fault, but contributed to the noise). We might have been overly sensitive about this because of the baby, but we had difficulty sleeping due to noise as well.
2) AC....present in the living room but no other rooms.