San Diego Hotels (California)
Today's San Diego Hotel Specials
- Courtyard By Marriott Solana Beach from $189, Jul 7 to Jul 10
- Bristol Hotel from $169, Jul 30 to Jul 31
- The Kona Kai Resort formerly Shelter Pointe from $179, Jul 9 to Jul 10
- Best Western Beach View Lodge from $159, Jul 17 to Jul 19
- Quality Inn & Suites Harborview from $113, Jul 24 to Jul 27
- Sea Lodge on La Jolla Shores Beach from $199, Jul 7 to Jul 9
- Grand Pacific Palisades Hotel from $209, Aug 2 to Aug 3
- San Diego Ramada Poway from $139, Jul 7 to Aug 4
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Lodge At Torrey Pines in La Jolla
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Amenity highlights: The lobby features views of the golf course and ocean, is furnished with Morris chairs, and warmed by a fire. A spacious outdoor terrace right off the lobby affords the same views. The deluxe spa provides facial and body treatments in private rooms, and houses a sauna and steam room. A “family room” features pool, backgammon, dominoes, and other games. The lodge is next to 2,000 acres covered by the protected and distinctive Torrey pine tree.
Insider tip: Two polished black Town Cars are on hand to whisk guests into downtown La Jolla, Del Mar, Torrey Pines Beach, or other sights within a five-mile radius, as a complimentary service. The front desk also provides complimentary bottles of water for hikers and beachgoers.
Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa
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What to expect:
Celebrities and leisure travelers choose this 40-acre tennis resort for its high-quality service and secluded surroundings. Guests enter a lobby with fresh flowers, rattan chairs, newspapers from across the country, and an adjacent fountain courtyard. The Mediterranean decor is marked by hand-painted tiles and lush landscaping.
Amenity highlights: The resort offers 18 hard tennis courts and expert instruction through clinics and private lessons (surcharge for both). Other fitness options include an outdoor lap pool and a fitness center with cardio equipment, free weights, and personal trainers (surcharge). Guests can relax with spa services (surcharge), including massage treatments, aromatherapy, and facials.
Amenity highlights: The resort offers 18 hard tennis courts and expert instruction through clinics and private lessons (surcharge for both). Other fitness options include an outdoor lap pool and a fitness center with cardio equipment, free weights, and personal trainers (surcharge). Guests can relax with spa services (surcharge), including massage treatments, aromatherapy, and facials.
Bristol Hotel
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What to expect:
The lobby looks more like it belongs in hip South Beach or Los Angeles, with modern furnishings in crayon colors of red, yellow, and blue. Bold pop-art sets a high-energy mood. A softer ambience prevails in the intimate bistro and ebony-paneled cocktail lounge just off the lobby.
Insider tip:
San Diego's picturesque waterfront and the Embarcadero, where boats leave for harbor excursions and Coronado, is a cheap cab ride from the hotel, or a nine-block walk down Broadway.
| Amenity highlights: The Bristol Hotel is justly proud of its art collection that includes works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Peter Max. The spectacular Starlight Ballroom, with a sliding roof that allows dining under the night sky, is available for private parties and business functions. |
Britt Scripps Inn
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- This hotel is two blocks from Balboa Park, one mile from the San Diego Zoo, and four miles from SeaWorld.
- Guestrooms feature complimentary wireless Internet access, flat-panel TVs with cable channels and DVD players, and bathrobes.
- The grounds of Britt Scripps Inn feature gardens; the inn also offers a complimentary breakfast daily, evening appetizers and wine, and a butler service.
Catamaran Resort and Spa
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A large rock waterfall flows into a fish-filled pond in the South Seas-style lobby, where the posts and rafters are teak and the furnishings bamboo. The reception area, concierge, and parking attendants are all on hand near the main entrance.
Accommodations at this San Diego hotel are housed in eight two-story buildings and in a 13-story tower.
Amenity highlights: The waterside spa and health club features an outdoor spa tub with 360-degree views of Mission Bay.
Training equipment is available on an outdoor patio as well as in indoor facilities. Saunas and steam rooms are housed within the spa.
Other amenities include a video-arcade room for children and a complimentary kid's club during summer months.
Complimentary wireless Internet access is available at the Atoll Restaurant and pool area.
Insider tip: This resort is situated on what is reputedly the world’s largest aquatic park. In fact, Mission Bay offers a host of water diversions including pedal boats, kayaks, personal watercraft, ski boats, sailboats, and catamarans (most equipment can be rented at the resort).
Free clinics as well as for-fee lessons are available for most activities. The hotel concierge can assist.
Doubletree Golf Resort San Diego
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- This hotel is five miles from Mission Bay and 20 miles from downtown San Diego and the airport.
- Guestrooms provide complimentary high-speed Internet access, coffeemakers, and balconies or patios with landscape views.
- The resort offers an 18-hole, par 72 golf course, as well as a fitness facility, two outdoor pools, and a basketball court.
Doubletree Hotel San Diego Mission Valley
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Amenity highlights: The hotel offers extensive fitness facilities, featuring indoor and outdoor pools and two lighted tennis courts. A spa tub, sauna, and steam room are on site, and private spa services can be scheduled for a surcharge. Guests can access the complimentary wireless Internet access in the pool-view lounge and lobby area, and enjoy California coastal cuisine at the Fountain Café
Insider tip: The San Diego Trolley stops directly across the street from the hotel, offering connections to such major attractions as Qualcomm Stadium, historic Old Town, downtown San Diego, the San Diego Convention Center, and the international border. Trolley tickets can be purchased at the front desk.
Embassy Suites Hotel San Diego - La Jolla
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Amenity highlights: An indoor pool, sauna, and fitness center are complemented by an outdoor spa tub and sundeck. Wireless Internet access is available throughout the hotel, including the lush atrium lobby where a daily cooked-to-order breakfast is served and nightly manager's receptions are held.
Insider Tip: Adjacent to the hotel, University Towne Center houses many shops and department stores, as well as a food court that surrounds a public ice-skating rink.
Embassy Suites San Diego Bay
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Amenity highlights: The soaring, 12-story atrium is filled with ponds and foliage, home to colorful koi and turtles. In this lush setting, guests can order breakfast each morning, and return for the daily manager’s reception (5:30 PM–7:30 PM) for complimentary cocktails, other beverages, and snacks. Also on site are a contemporary seafood restaurant, corner bar with sushi and wide-screen TV, Starbucks Coffee, indoor pool, outdoor spa tub, and fitness center.
Empress Hotel of La Jolla
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What to expect:
The five-story hotel is one of the more affordable lodging options in ritzy La Jolla. The hotel—which has the feeling of a European-style
pensione
--is popular with business and leisure travelers for its low-key charm and location two blocks from ocean cliffs and five blocks from the beach. Travelers enter a lobby with a white-marble floor, dark-wood columns, and plush couches.
Amenity highlights: Complimentary Continental breakfast is served daily in a breakfast room with an adjacent sundeck for outdoor dining. Featuring dishes from northern Italy, the hotel's restaurant is a local favorite. Guests can use a fitness room, spa tub, and dry sauna. Wireless Internet access is complimentary throughout the property.
Insider tip: Three blocks from the hotel, the Museum of Contemporary Art overlooks the ocean from a cliffside perch. Its galleries feature multimedia artworks created after 1950.
Amenity highlights: Complimentary Continental breakfast is served daily in a breakfast room with an adjacent sundeck for outdoor dining. Featuring dishes from northern Italy, the hotel's restaurant is a local favorite. Guests can use a fitness room, spa tub, and dry sauna. Wireless Internet access is complimentary throughout the property.
Insider tip: Three blocks from the hotel, the Museum of Contemporary Art overlooks the ocean from a cliffside perch. Its galleries feature multimedia artworks created after 1950.
Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa
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What to expect:
Occupying 9.5 landscaped acres, the Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa is designed to evoke an early California rancho estate. A hacienda-style lobby overlooks a broad patio and courtyard. Guests receive complimentary coffee, lemonade, or wine at check-in, depending on time of day. Located within four miles of La Jolla Village shopping, Torrey Pines Golf Course, and La Jolla Shores beach, the hotel primarily attracts leisure travelers and on-site corporate retreats.
Insider tip:
A mile away, Birch Aquarium at Scripps (surcharge) has 60 tanks, including a 13,000-gallon shark reef exhibit. There are also three living tide pools and a 20-seat Simulator Ride. The aquarium is set high on a coastal bluff overlooking La Jolla Shores beach.
| Amenity highlights: Dining options include a restaurant that blends Southern California and rancho cuisine, a casual wine bar, and 24-hour room service. For recreation, guests choose between an extensive health spa (surcharge), an outdoor splash pool with seasonal poolside bar, and a health club offering exercise equipment and fitness classes (surcharge). Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available throughout the hotel. |
Grand Pacific Palisades Hotel
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Amenity highlights: Adults 17 and older can use the peaceful swimming pool with an ocean view. Children and families can use the outdoor pool, which features interactive water toys, as well as an adjacent game room and activity center. Planned activities include such eclectic offerings as wine and jazz nights, beauty workshops, bubble-gum-blowing contests, hula-hoop contests, and table-tennis tournaments.
Insider tip: Although The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch are famous for their dazzling spring displays of ranunculus (a buttercup relative with showy, rose-like blooms) and other flowers, it also shelters an All-American Rose Selection (AARS) garden, only one of 130 AARS-accredited public rose gardens in the nation. The fields bloom March through May.
Grand Pacific Palisades Resort Condos
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- This large family resort, next to Legoland®, offers fully-equipped one-bedroom condominiums.
- All 138 condos offer a kitchen, a private balcony or patio, and views of the ocean or park, or the flower fields (seasonally).
- Amenities include an Olympic-size pool, a family pool and water play park. There is also a fitness center and a game room.
Grande Colonial Hotel
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Amenity highlights: The elegant, antique-filled and marble-clad lobby contains slip-covered and leather club chairs, a marble fireplace, and French doors that lead to an ocean-view terrace and the garden pool below. The highly rated, and locally popular, Nine-Ten restaurant off the lobby features changing menus of contemporary cuisine, wines by the glass and other libations, and sidewalk dining. The Nine-Ten also provides room service.
Insider tip: This hotel is located on the village's main thoroughfare amid snazzy shops, restaurants, and galleries. Nonetheless, even budget-minded travelers should be able to unearth some good bargains.
Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines
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What to expect:
This Hilton sits atop oceanfront bluffs, neighbor to the Torrey Pines Golf Course, the Torrey Pines State Reserve, and The Salk Institute. SeaWorld® is 11 miles away. This full-service hotel caters to medical and biotech visitors, golfers, and beach-going families.
Amenity highlights: Guests have access to the Torrey Pines Golf Course next door, and to numerous other area courses. Guests also have access to neighboring Shiley Sports Center, and The Lodge at Torrey Pines, which features a full-service spa. The pool-level restaurant offers American cuisine, along with an exhibition kitchen, a cocktail lounge, pools, and waterfalls.
Insider tip: Guests looking for a special souvenir may want to take note of the paintings, sculptures, and other artwork in the hotel’s Torreyana Grille. On loan from local galleries, these exhibits rotate quarterly, and everything—from post-modern paintings to whimsical wooden figures—is available for purchase.
Amenity highlights: Guests have access to the Torrey Pines Golf Course next door, and to numerous other area courses. Guests also have access to neighboring Shiley Sports Center, and The Lodge at Torrey Pines, which features a full-service spa. The pool-level restaurant offers American cuisine, along with an exhibition kitchen, a cocktail lounge, pools, and waterfalls.
Insider tip: Guests looking for a special souvenir may want to take note of the paintings, sculptures, and other artwork in the hotel’s Torreyana Grille. On loan from local galleries, these exhibits rotate quarterly, and everything—from post-modern paintings to whimsical wooden figures—is available for purchase.
Hilton San Diego Del Mar
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What to expect:
The atmosphere at this entirely nonsmoking hotel is friendly and casual. The entrance, with valet or self-parking, leads to a well-appointed, sky-lighted lobby where a reception area awaits guests. During the fair or racetrack season (approximately mid-June to mid-September), the place is packed with horseracing fans and fairgoers.
Amenity highlights: The pillared lobby features a light- and plant-filled restaurant at one end, and a step-down lounge with fireplace and TV at the other. A coffee bar, adjoining the gift shop, offers muffins and specialty coffees. A fitness room is located near the pool and spa tub, which are set within a courtyard splashed with chaise lounges and umbrella-covered tables.
Insider tip: Guests have more dining options than meet the eye. Although Silk’s Restaurant and Polo Lounge are at opposite sides of the lobby, guests who prefer the lounge ambience, or who want to watch TV, can sit in the lounge but order from the restaurant menu. The same goes for terrace, poolside, or room service dining—the restaurant comes to you. Silk’s sometimes offers great all-you-can-eat nights.
Amenity highlights: The pillared lobby features a light- and plant-filled restaurant at one end, and a step-down lounge with fireplace and TV at the other. A coffee bar, adjoining the gift shop, offers muffins and specialty coffees. A fitness room is located near the pool and spa tub, which are set within a courtyard splashed with chaise lounges and umbrella-covered tables.
Insider tip: Guests have more dining options than meet the eye. Although Silk’s Restaurant and Polo Lounge are at opposite sides of the lobby, guests who prefer the lounge ambience, or who want to watch TV, can sit in the lounge but order from the restaurant menu. The same goes for terrace, poolside, or room service dining—the restaurant comes to you. Silk’s sometimes offers great all-you-can-eat nights.
Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
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Amenity highlights: When it's time to relax, the Hilton's 4,500-square-foot Artesia Day Spa offers massages and facials with European skin care products. Soft chaises surround the outdoor pool, which is flanked by a 24-hour fitness center. A business center is equipped with fax and copy machines, and computers with high-speed Internet access.
Insider tip: The San Diego trolley is a charming way to get around the city and stops 100 feet from the hotel's front door. It serves downtown, Old Town, Qualcomm Stadium and even Tijuana (a 40-minute trip from downtown). Horse-drawn carriages and pedicabs can be hailed on 5th Street, a half-block away.
Hilton San Diego Mission Valley
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What to expect:
This centrally located, 14-story hotel is popular with fans attending sporting events at Qualcomm Stadium, two miles away. Other guests include families visiting nearby universities, convention groups, and leisure travelers on a budget. The lobby has elegant accents, such as marble floors, murals of historic missions, and a winding staircase with brass banisters.
Insider tip:
Two malls are across the highway from the hotel. Fashion Valley Center offers such stores as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Williams-Sonoma. Next door, the older Misson Valley Center has Loehman's, Nordstrom Rack, and a 20-screen movie theater. Guests may take the hotel's complimentary shuttle there, but walking is preferable on weekends, when traffic around the malls is heavy.
| Amenity highlights: A wall painted with swaying palm trees gives the second-floor pool patio a tropical feel. The hotel's fitness center is equipped with cardio machines and free weights. A complimentary shuttle is available upon request to take guests to the trolley stop and shopping malls. Business travelers appreciate the hotel's menu planning service, audio-visual rentals, and 20,000 square feet of meeting space. |
Hilton San Diego Resort
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| What to expect: Surrounded by Mission Bay Aquatic Park (4,600-plus acres of beaches, coves, and islands), this entirely nonsmoking hotel attracts vacationers and families to its water-front setting, on-site spa, and numerous recreational activities. |
Insider tip: In addition to the spa tubs located in the large pool area, and one at the rear of the fitness center, there is another tucked inside the courtyard garden of the Villa Palacio building.
Hotel del Coronado - A KSL Luxury Resort
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What to expect:
The refurbished interior of the landmark Hotel del Coronado resort complements its wedding-cake exterior of white siding and red-roofed turrets. A uniformed operator still runs the original birdcage elevator, though the controls are now automated. The vast lobby is filled with families, conventioneers, San Diegans on weekend getaways, history buffs, and those imagining the days when Hollywood's elite trod the grand staircases.
Amenity highlights: The"Del" (as it's known by locals) pampers guests with cabanas, poolside dining, and luxury health spa services, including in-room massages complete with candlelight and wine. There's also a fitness room, tennis courts, bicycle-, boat-, and jet ski rentals, and special programs for children.
Insider tip: Marilyn Monroe filmed Some Like It Hot here. Frequent guest and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum designed the chandeliers in the spectacular Crown Room. Also as guests, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz concocted their I Love Lucy personae. There's even a resident ghost—Kate Morgan.
Amenity highlights: The"Del" (as it's known by locals) pampers guests with cabanas, poolside dining, and luxury health spa services, including in-room massages complete with candlelight and wine. There's also a fitness room, tennis courts, bicycle-, boat-, and jet ski rentals, and special programs for children.
Insider tip: Marilyn Monroe filmed Some Like It Hot here. Frequent guest and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum designed the chandeliers in the spectacular Crown Room. Also as guests, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz concocted their I Love Lucy personae. There's even a resident ghost—Kate Morgan.