Great place—we would definitely stay again. Clean, quiet, easy access to the freeway. Nice neighborhoods to walk in, very safe and comfortable. The hosts are exceedingly gracious, and have created a beautiful back yard (more a very large patio area, since it’s all pavers). Fish pond and lots of growing plants make it very beautiful.
The house is small and exceptionally clean. Bathroom was great, and the bedrooms with nice air conditioning units in each one made for great places to sleep. Kitchen was appropriately furnished for basic needs, and we were delighted to have a washer and dryer, even if we only used one load. They’re small but very functional.
Parking. I was relieved to find that the neighborhood felt not only safe for walking, but a place I wouldn’t mind leaving my vehicle out (not all of San Jose is that way). Parking was sometimes a small challenge, as people parked behind me, making it harder to maneuver my truck out of the assigned parking lot, and street parking was at a premium. But it was still very nice to have a dedicated parking spot!
We loved the bedroom air conditioners. Quiet and very adjustable. Made for a very nice sleeping space. While we did OK with it in the 90s, I do wonder if it got much hotter how well the house would cool. Not that the bedrooms wouldn’t be cool, but there didn’t seem to be a good way to circulate the cool air from the bedrooms out to the kitchen/dining room/living room. Again, we did fine, but some way to move the air would be nice, as there are vents in the ceilings—maybe there was an air handler we didn’t figure out.
This would be our first choice were we to stay in San Jose again. The stay was exceptional, and what I’ve written is just to pass on observations to the next users, not as complaints.