Cute Studio With Large Balcony and Great Park View

Clean property, helpful and pleasant staff. Kitchen was fully stocked with plates, mugs, etc and kettle. Balcony was a plus as the room itself is quite small, although very noisy to sit outside as you're right under the flight path for the airport (as is much of central San Diego). Wouldn't exactly call it a "great park view" but the balcony does look out onto the very edge of the park.

Parking was difficult - typical within central San Diego, but made even more so as the local church restricts a lot of the local spots, and an event along the park road restricted Sunday parking to almost zero availability within the area. Secure parking is available under the building at an extra charge of approx. $30/day. Main road outside is noisy, not helped by the event set-up beginning at 3am Sunday morning. Room was listed as 3 beds, but we were only provided a single top sheet and one comforter to share between the trundle bed and sofa bed.

Stay away from this place at all costs!! I wish I could rate it as ZERO. I was sharing the room with my colleague. On our second night there, my colleague saw the smoke detector mounted to the ceiling directly above her bed being retracted from the ceiling, creating a hole. Then, she saw what looked like a camera being inserted from the same hole. Everything happened very quickly. My colleague screamed and before she knew it, the smoke detector was back in its original position and she did not have a chance to take a picture. Absolutely terrifying that this could happen! Perhaps someone was watching us from upstairs. On that very same night, the access codes we used to enter the building also changed/ stopped working. There were also loud noises upstairs - hammering and furniture moving sounds—for hours in the middle of the night. We called the police immediately after we saw the inserted camera. They inspected the smoke detector in person and confirmed that it was suspicious. A normal detector should not have so much wiring (all written in the police report). A detective is now on the case. We left the studio when the police did that very day.   What is very bizarre is that while we left with the police (and never went back), the host is still accusing us of staying in the studio. What is even weirder is that the host did not seem surprised or concerned that this happened to their guests/ customers. They never apologized but instead threatened us for making a false claim. They even had the audacity to ask us to leave a 5-star review. We are shocked and disappointed that we have not been compensated for this traumatic event. What happened was illegal, disgusting, and caused insurmountable distress! I have spoken to lawyers and am ready to take legal action.   Don’t let the higher ratings of the other reviews fool you like how it fooled me. This is a new host with few ratings. We do not want anyone to experience what we have gone through.