Everything in the apartment is new and of excellent quality including the beds, furniture, floors, windows, doors, fixtures, complete bathroom and lovely kitchen with its super clean and quiet fridge and dishwasher and awesome gas oven and range top. A family of five joined our family of four adults for dinner and the kitchen and its amenities provided superbly for a great eve of Christmas eve meal. The patio is also nice and new with a table with umbrella and seating for six and a secure gate that can be padlocked if you bring your own lock, a great feature if you're vacationing with your four legged friend as we were. The only negative with the home is there's a unit on top of it, though the amount of noise that came down to us was minor and not enough deter of us from returning here for another stay.
Having Dog Beach just around the corner was fantastic, as our dog likes to get out and stretch her (and our) legs. The Dog Beach section of Ocean Beach curves east and turns into the San Diego river, allowing a walk of several miles for anyone so inclined to hike. In the ten walks or so I took on the beach with my dog I never came across one single pile of dog poop, so Bravo to all the responsible Ocean Beach dog owners! This is definitely the home and the place where I'd like to spend more than one future Christmas week with the family, in spite of the one thing I discovered about Ocean Beach (this was my first visit to this area of San Diego) that I guess the locals just get used to, which is the noise from the planes taking off overhead from nearby SAN. Fortunately with the new windows and doors it's quiet enough inside the home to not have to engage the "Ocean Beach pause" in a conversation when a jet is flying by, but they are damn loud outside. Hopefully in 20 years time planes will all be electric : -)