Spring 20% Off! Spacious 5 BR/3BA, 8 Beds, Sleeps 13, 5 Blocks to Beac

• Great place !

  Great place !

  • Guest Namrata
  • Date of stay 02/24/12
  • Review Submitted 03/10/12
  This house is huge and perfect for large groups. Very spacious with 5 bedrooms, charming, clean and well maintained. The kitchen is well-stocked with everything that you may need. Back patio area is fabulous! The jacuzzi was a great hit with all of us too. The owner was very helpful and responsive to all our questions. We had a great time here in San Diego in this house and would like to thank Dan for the hospitality.

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• Great Location and very accommodating!

  Great Location and very accommodating!

  • Guest Logan N.
  • Date of stay 02/21/13
  • Review Submitted 04/19/13
  Very comfortable and accommodating. Easy to work with. The hot tub is nice. Great place to stay. It used to be a bed and breakfast so there is a lot of room for a big group. It has a big yard for get togethers. I would defiantly stay here again.

  Recommended for: Families with young children, tourists without a car, age 55+, adventure seekers, families with teenagers, sightseeing.

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• This rental was so difficult

  This rental was so difficult

  • Guest Patty
  • Date of stay 08/04/12
  • Review Submitted 10/11/12
  We previewed this house a few months ahead of time. It is on a street busy and noisy 24/7. We would have not rented it, but owner assured us that double paned windows on first floor (4 bedrooms are on the first floor; the so-called 5th bedroom - which is one very large space/bunkroom with a bed, a sleeper sofa and a kind of futon - is 1/2 flight up and does not have double paned windows and so is very noisy) and air conditioning our stay would be quiet and comfortable. On arriving, owner showed us the "spa timer" he had installed on the thermostat. This, then, required that one return to the thermostat every 60 minutes in order to keep the AC on. Because several windows, including the sliding glass door in the living room opening to the back yard - the only way to get any outside air into the living room - did not have screens, every time we opened these windows/door for air, we got a huge influx of flies. Also, a possum that we saw in the backyard near the door into the living room resulted in no one being comfortable ever leaving that door open. Owner explained that previous renters' excessive (?) use of AC prompted him to install this timer. Consequently, we were very hot and uncomfortable every night -- couldn't leave windows open due to excessive noise and didn't choose to get up every hour to turn the spa timer. It was choice of not sleeping due to noise vs. not sleeping due to heat vs. not sleeping due to setting alarm for every hour -- so we were tired all the time. Complaints to owner didn't result in problem being solved. Additionally, we had concerns re safety of hot tub due to cover of mechanical equipment (which was in the water) being broken so that it wouldn't stay closed. Not fixed despite telling owner. Ice-maker in frig. did not work - a big inconvenience in the hot weather. We had to request that he bring us adequate pots and pans because they were not in the house on our arrival. No soap, shampoo or conditioner supplied, as they were in other vacation rentals we've had. No dish towels (we went out and bought some) and only one roll of paper towels! Wi-fi went out so many times that a member of our group could not meet a deadline for submitting paper for publication; and cable TV failed right before Olympic women's world championship soccer game - a huge disappointment for us. While the space was sufficient for our group of 11, and the owner is a pleasant guy, we would never have rented if we'd known all of the above.

  Owner response: Durng our five plus years as a vacation rental, we've hosted over two hundred families and over well over one thousand guests, without a single negative review. Until now. We go to great measures to make sure our guests are comfortable and have everything they request. We don't bother our guests by requesting positive reviews, but we may start now. These guests called at least five times a day with different requests, such as extra paper towels, linens, dish rags, etc. We promptly and politely accomodated every request, even if it meant driving across town. The real problem here was these guests stayed in mid-August during a record heat wave. The vast majority of homes in La Jolla Shores do not have air conditioning. This home has a large commercial air conditioning unit, even though we are just two blocks from the coast and it's typically cool. To conserve energy we have the AC on a timer to turn off at night. Their first night the guests called at 11 PM and woke me up to turn the AC back on. It was 61 degrees outside. To try and make them happy, we changed the settings to let them run the AC twenty four hours a day. If you read their long review, you can see it boils down to complaints about the air conditioning at night, the plastic hinged lid over the Jacuzzi filter (factory feature), the one and only room which does not have double paned windows, and a possum seen passing through the back yard. Even though we can sleep thirteen in beds, they had extra people sleeping in the living room (in violation of the contract). Every bedroom has a Hunter ceiling fan, which cools the rooms quite nicely. These "extras" in the living room requested additonal portable fans, which we provided. In essense, we accomodated every single request and did everything we could to satisfy these guests, as we do for all our guests. I'm sorry we could not make them happy. Dan (owner)

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• La Jolla 5-bedroom beachhouse

  La Jolla 5-bedroom beachhouse

  • Guest Ed Lakewood CO
  • Date of stay 06/10/12
  • Review Submitted 06/22/12
  Owner/Dan was extremely helpful and knowledgeable of the house and local area. House is located close to the beach with easy interstate access. Perfect for large family or multi family trip and was clean. House had everything we needed but could use little extras like tvs in all of the bedrooms. We enjoyed our stay and would rent it again!

  Recommended for: Families with young children, age 55+, girls getaway, families with teenagers, people with disabilities, sightseeing.

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