Upon check-in, finding which room was ours turned out to be confusing. There are three air bnb rooms located on the left side of the house, each labeled with a different letter. I checked my reservation to see if there had been a unit letter to help us distinguish which was ours, but I couldn’t find this anywhere in the reservation. So instead I tried each door because I didn’t know which one was ours. Finally I found ours, but it was definitely not ideal at first because I was concerned over disrupting other guests and my bf urgently needed to use the bathroom, so the slow check-in wasn’t what he had hoped for. The room was a lot smaller than I’d expected based on the pictures. The space was animal friendly which is why we chose it, but I don’t recommend if you have bigger dogs. We were fine, but two big dogs in this little room is not adequate space. Usually one of my pups sleeps in her crate, but she had to sleep in the bed with us because there was absolutely no way her crate would fit in there. Aside from this, the seating area outside looked like it was under construction or renovation with caution tape surrounding it and what looked like a bit of a mess outside. It was mostly concrete in the backyard, which was fine but our dogs didn’t really have anywhere to go potty for us to pick up. Not to mention the trash on the side yard was overflowing very badly. The recycling area was nice and clean, but we had no place to dispose of our dogs waste due to the overflowing trash. There seemed to be different projects in the backyard that were underway, so we were trying not to step on anything or get in the way. The last thing that seemed off was when I went to drink one of the two water bottles left for us, the seal seemed like it was broken. When I tasted the water it had the distinct taste of tap water. I looked at the other water bottle to see that the seal was still on that one. I broke the seal on the second one and tried it to see if it tasted different. I don’t know if I’m crazy, but I wouldn’t make a point to write about this in a review if I didn’t honestly believe that the first water bottle I drank was refilled with tap water. I want to give the benefit of the doubt but I was so freaked out by the waters that I couldn’t not say something. Needless to say we won’t be staying here again, mainly due to our dogs size. But the water bottles topped it off as the main reason. I could see this being fine for a solo traveler stopping by the San Jose area, but not for two people and two dogs, it just wasn’t cozy for us. Also our main reason for staying here was to find something affordable near Santa Cruz, which was about a 40 minute drive, so not terrible when you compare to other places in Santa Cruz going for over $400 a night for a basic hotel room.