The Grand Del Mar
This five-star hotel offers its guests a luxury experience in a spectacular setting. Architect Addison Mizner drew inspiration from the monumental hotels of the 1920s, so the lobby has vaulted ceilings and mosaic floors of marble. The in-house restaurant, named "Addison" for the architect, boasts arches, marble floors, a first-rate wine cellar and views of the adjacent Grand Golf Course. A second restaurant, the Clubhouse Grill, is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The hotel has a 21,000-square-foot spa, where guests can have massages in cabanas poolside, a ballroom, meeting rooms and a chapel. Guests can play golf or tennis, swim or hike in nearby Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve. The hotel also has an Explorer's Club, where parents can drop off their kids for supervised nature activities and hikes. The guest rooms are decorated in turn-of-the-century décor, and all have balconies that overlook the golf course. The bathrooms have separate showers and over-sized tubs, and the beds and bedding are premium products. The rooms also have free wireless Internet access and safes large enough to accommodate laptop computers.
The Grand Del Mar
5300 Grand Del Mar Court
San Diego, CA 92130
(866) 539-0036
thegranddelmar.com
Se San Diego
If your tastes run more to a contemporary setting, Se San Diego is the perfect hotel for you. The hotel is downtown, adjacent to the financial and theater districts and right next door to the House of Blues. The opulent, Zen-inspired interior soothes the soul with its stone floors, dark wooden furniture and flower arrangements. The hotel has a fine restaurant that offers room service, a swimming pool with cabanas and a poolside lounge, a business center, a fitness center and a spa. Guests can avail themselves of baby sitting, laundry and dry cleaning services and in-town chauffeur service. The guest rooms have safes, plasma TVs with cable service, premium showerheads in the bathrooms and floor-to-ceiling windows that take in the San Diego skyline. Wireless Internet access is available for an additional fee. Pets are welcome.
Se San Diego
1047 Fifth Ave.
San Diego, CA 92101
(866) 539-0036
sesandiego.com
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
This high-rise hotel sits right on San Diego Bay. The architect designed the building to take advantage of its beach-front spot, raising the entrance so incoming guests get an immediate look at the water. You can literally walk right out of the hotel and onto the beach, with all of its attendant pleasures. The hotel is next door to the San Diego Convention Center and across the street from Petco Park, where the San Diego Padres play baseball. The hotel is also close to Balboa Park and several championship golf courses. The fabulous setting carries inside as well---you can see the beach, the bridges and San Diego bay from the lobby, the meeting rooms, the restaurants and the guest rooms. The hotel has a fine-dining restaurant, a bar and a Starbuck's coffee shop, an on-site spa, a heated saltwater swimming pool and whirlpool and a health club. The hotel is handicap accessible Besides huge windows, the guest rooms have Hilton's premium beds and bedding, work desks and free Internet access, plasma TVs with cable connection and upscale terry cloth towels and Crabtree & Evelyn toiletries in the bathrooms. Suites have living rooms.
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
1 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
(866) 539-0036
hilton.com
