San Diego - where to stay?

Jez

Jez

Jez

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Hi,

Circumstances have extended my california holiday this year by a couple of days, and therefore i would like to try san diego.

Does anybody have any advice as to which area to stay in? I hear both "old Town" and the "Gaslamp" district (the latter being close to the waterfront) are the two area's which we will want to visit.

I know very little about the city, and i want to be sure that i get the area right. It is very important to me to be close by to the bar/drinking/eating areas. The point of a holiday for us is to sit outside restaurants in a nice climate eating and polishing plenty of bottles of wine off in the evenings. I do not want to be travelling far back to the hotel.

We like the look of the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina on the waterfront, a stones throw away from the Gaslamp district.

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sandt-san-diego-marriott-hotel-and-marina/
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...708553,-117.164233&spn=0.009208,0.021887&z=16

Is this an OK bet? The hotel itself i need little info on, it is the location and any suggestions at all from anybody who has visited which i am interested in :)

Many thanks.
 
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Don't get conned, La Jolla is not San Diego as much as the web sites tell, you, we made that mistake and were miles away from the city centre
 
meghatronic said:
I love the architecture on that building.

Flick through here.
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Indeed i have been, with interest :) Any further advice and information re location and generally...anything about San Diego would be great though.

maccapacca said:
Don't get conned, La Jolla is not San Diego as much as the web sites tell, you, we made that mistake and were miles away from the city centre
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I dont understand what this means (La Jolla), can you expand at all please? :) It looks to be right next to the "gaslamp" district. Which i am led to believe is the place to be? This is why i posted this thread, i very much want to avoid "getting conned"!
 
Gaslamp all the way.

La Jolla is a town to the north of San Diego. That hotel isn't in La Jolla.

I stayed in the Sheraton by the symphony hall, was OK.

Going back in October now and will be staying in either the Marriott at the Marina, the Courtyard in Gaslamp or Marriott in Gaslamp (I stay in Marriott's for work hence have a load of points to use).

Make sure you go to the Gaslamp strip club steak restaurant. It's good. Also check out Balboa park.
 
MuvverRussia said:
Gaslamp all the way.

La Jolla is a town to the north of San Diego. That hotel isn't in La Jolla.

I stayed in the Sheraton by the symphony hall, was OK.

Going back in October now and will be staying in either the Marriott at the Marina, the Courtyard in Gaslamp or Marriott in Gaslamp (I stay in Marriott's for work hence have a load of points to use).

Make sure you go to the Gaslamp strip club steak restaurant. It's good. Also check out Balboa park.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. That restaurant sounds a bit seedy? :eek: I assume it isnt actually a strip club? (I dont fancy googling it through this customers webcache!)

Andybtsn said:
Gaslamp.

I loved San Diego
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Looking good for that Marriott then :) thanks.
 
Jez - it's not a strip club. It's an over 21s restaurant though (so no kids around). Some of the best food I've had in San Diego too. Not really that seedy either.
 
I stayed in Del Mar, which is just outside San Diego in a beautiful little boutique hotel called Auberge Del Mar last year. Fantastic place. :cool:
 
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