In downtown La Jolla, California, this boutique inn offers spacious Balinese inspired rooms with well-equipped kitchens, fireplaces and Pacific Ocean views.
Featuring apartments with sweeping ocean views, this accommodations is located 1 minute walk from the beach. The University for St. Augustine Health Sciences offers graduate level degrees on campus & online. Located across the street from the Pacific Ocean, this 14-room Inn offers ocean facing rooms in a relaxed setting. These cookies are used to display personalized ads both on Booking.com and other sites. !Breakfast is very good. San Diego embodies laid-back California culture, complete with a Boardwalk, surfing communities, and outstanding Mexican food. … We will be back for sure!Very clean . Located in the light industrial Midway area, this hotel is 8 minutes’ walk from Old Town. To see wildlife in its natural habitat head to La Jolla beach where harbor seals rest, or watch whales in season from Point Loma Lighthouse.Just over the border from Mexico’s Tijuana, San Diego has a distinctly Latin American vibe and a variety of accommodations encompassing apartments, motels, B&Bs and hotels. Really enjoyed the stay.Excellent location, quiet even though in the middle of Gaslamp quarter action, a personal guest feeling that is missed in big lobby hotels, great quality restaurant and bar. Featuring a beachfront outdoor pool and hot tub, this San Diego, California beach resort is located on Pacific Beach Park. It's also a few minutes walk to the public transport, which gets you to all San Diego sights for a day-ticket of 6 dollar. San Diego is a great place to visit. There are gleaming engines from this period and artefacts for the likes of Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.You can go back further to see faithful reproductions of the Wright Brothers’ gliders, and zoom forward to the Jet Age, represented by a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk, a Boeing GPS-12 Satellite and a the canopy of the game-changing North American X-15 rocket plane.There are also flight simulators, an “Action Hangar” play area for little ones and a 3D/4D theatre for pulsating shows.There are 94 historic buildings in this 16 block heritage area in downtown San Diego, bordering Petco Park and the Convention Center.The Gaslamp Quarter, heralded by a gateway arch on Fifth Avenue, dates from 1867 when the real estate developer Alonzo Horton envisaged a new city centre nearer the San Diego Bay.If you’re in San Diego to sample the food scene and nightlife you’re sure to find yourself in the Gaslamp Quarter at some point, in a neighbourhood of more than 100 sidewalk restaurants, craft breweries, concept cocktail bars and rooftop lounges.There’s lots going on here during Comic-Con in July, as well as big street parties for Mardi Gras and St Patrick’s Day.Roosted on a bluff over the campus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, this noted aquarium reveals the spectrum of marine life of the Pacific Ocean.You can get there in 20 minutes from downtown San Diego, and start with the Hall of Fishes.This has an array of habitats, from the brisk waters of the North West to the tropical climes of the Indo-Pacific.There’s a 260,000-litre kelp forest tank, coral reefs and a much-loved loggerhead turtle that was rescued.At the Tide-Pool Plaza, youngsters can get to know the creatures inhabiting Southern California’s tide pools like starfish, hermit crabs, lobsters and sea cucumbers.There’s Something About Seahorses is a showcase for this peculiar creature, while Feeling the Heat is a jolting look at the effects of climate change.Conserving some 2,000 acres of rugged Pacific coastline north of La Jolla, this National Natural Landmark is on a plateau skirted by high cliffs for a awesome views of the ocean.There are eight miles of trails, and you can use the Beach Trail to get down to natural un-touristy beaches with almost no signs of civilisation.The park is a vital habitat for the endangered Torrey Pine, which only grows in this location and off the coast of Santa Barbara on Santa Rosa Island.During the migration season you may get to see gray and blue whales from the cliffs.Stop by the charming pueblo-style visitor centre, which is the departure point for guided on walks on weekends and holidays at 10:00 and 14:00.On the cusp of the State Reserve is a public platform for hang gliding and paragliding posted on cliffs above the Pacific.If you’re intent on taking to the skies but have no experience you can take part in a tandem hang gliding or paragliding flight, starting at a couple of hundred dollars.But most of the visitors to the Gilderport are here just to bask in the scenery and feel the ocean breeze.There are benches to linger over the views of the Pacific and the coastline down to La Jolla, and you can watch the gliders take off, tuck into an outsized sandwich at the Cliffhanger Cafe and enjoy some live music on Saturday afternoons.On the west flank of Point Loma is a glorious 68-acre park protecting rough-hewn ocean bluffs, caves, natural arches and tidepools.There’s no mystery to the name, as you may not find a better spot within easy reach of downtown San Diego to watch the sunset.And as with many high vantage points on the Southern Californian coast, there’s a good chance of spotting gray whales between December and April.By road the scenery is sensational on the Sunset Cliffs Boulevard between Adair Street and Ladera Street.Set in four imposing Spanish Revival buildings from the Panama-California Exposition, the Museum of Man has just celebrated its centenary.Here you can study pre-Columbian history, getting to know local Native American cultures, as well as Mesoamerican civilisations like the Mayans.The exhibitions approach these topics in fun, enlightening ways.Take, BEERology, looking into the 10,000-year history of beer brewing and featuring a solid gold beer cup belonging to an Incan king some 600 years ago.Monsters!