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Se San Diego Offers a Naughty Holiday Package for a Nice Price

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  Site Where: 1047 5th Ave. [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101
November 23, 2009 at 3:51 PM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

The holidays are all about Santa, cookies, snow and all that cheery goodwill toward others, but sometimes during the chaotic season you need to just get away with your honey for some coal-worthy behavior. All you bad boys and girls can head to the Se San Diego for its Naughty and Nice holiday package.

The one-night package allows you to get dirty in a Moroccan Rasul steam room. There you'll get the Se Spa's mud bath for two—the mud treatment is the spa's signature service, so it should be good. Then you and your sweetie can clean yourselves off with a soak in in a couple's tub.

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Omni San Diego Tries to Offer Holiday Cheer with New Packages

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  Site Where: 675 L St. [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101
November 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

Spending the holidays in a hotel may not seem very homey and warm, but the Omni San Diego, next to Petco Park in the downtown Gaslamp Quarter, wants to give it a go with several holiday packages.

The Stuff Your Stocking package starts at $99 a night. As you can guess from the package's name, the hotel will give you a personalized holiday stocking filled with coupons to stores and restaurants near the hotel. You'll also get a voucher that entitles you to stay in the hotel for the same rate in 2010.

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The Pearl Pours a Brewski Brunch for San Diego Beer Week

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  Site Where: 1410 Rosecrans St. [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92106
November 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

The Pearl Hotel will toast to San Diego's Beer Week (November 6 to 15) with a poolside beer brunch on November 8 featuring suds from local artisan brewery AleSmith Brewing Co.

The beer brunch will have four brewski-and-eats stations at each corner of the pool. At one station, the Belgian-style Grand Cru will be paired with a smoked ham and roasted pear croque monsieur. Another will offer the Speedway Stout, an imperial stout with coffee, to complement the hazelnut French toast and Tahitian vanilla custard. Old Numbskull, a West Coast-style barleywine, will come with house-smoked bacon, sunnyside-up quail eggs and bird's next hash browns.

The last station will pour Anvil, the brewery's signature beer, to go with the raisin rum coffeecake.

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Rancho Bernardo Inn Celebrates Halloween with a Haunted House and S'Mores

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  Site Where: 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92128
October 27, 2009 at 9:42 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

If you're looking for some last-minute Halloween plans, San Diego's Rancho Bernardo Inn is throwing a spooky holiday bash—but not too spooky that it'll scare the kids away—complete with a haunted house, trick-or-treating and, of course, lots and lots of sugar.

The hotel's hosting its first Halloween at the Inn event on Oct. 30 and 31 with a Not-Too-Scary Haunted House ($9), which targets little ones who love the chills of Halloween but are easily rattled. Kids can dress up to enter a costume contest and to trick-or-treat on the hotel's property. They'll also have the chance to get their faces painted and do some pumpkin decorating.

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You Won't Necessarily Score Bargains During San Diego Hotel Week

October 23, 2009 at 8:39 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

We got worried when the first San Diego Hotel Week only had one lonely hotel on board back in July. But as Hotel Week—set for November 13 to 26—approaches, more than 40 are on the roster. Thing is, we found that you're not necessarily getting a deal if you book a room through the Hotel Week website.

Don't get us wrong, you can score some price cuts. The Estancia La Jolla is giving out rooms for 50 percent off. A room that usually costs $275 is $137.50 exclusively through Hotel Week's website. You can also snag a guestroom at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront for $99. The regular price is $109.

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The US Grant Tries to Stay Young with Lounge Renovation

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  Site Where: 326 Broadway [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101
October 22, 2009 at 9:03 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

San Diego's historic US Grant Hotel recently gave its lounge in the Grant Grill, which opened in 1951 and was a men's-only joint for a while, a renovation and new menu to keep up with the times.

To give it a more urban feel, Esteban Lopez and James Niebling of Esteban Interiors added metal bar tables with a silver-sparkle finish topped with quartz slabs of stone and metal aggregate. Another modern touch is the walnut-topped custom dining tables with solid inlay edges and corners, metal bases, and wood balustrade pedestal. The faux-leather bar stools and banquettes in muted ivory and tan shades with a metallic gray spray finish soften up the room a bit. Panels of mosaic tiles illuminated with sconces provide some warmth.

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You've Got to Commit to the 'Earth-Inspired' Spa Package at The Grand Del Mar

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  Site Where: 5300 Grand Del Mar Court [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92130
October 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments

There’s nothing quite so therapeutic as getting in touch with nature…especially when that nature is a mudpack facial that cleanses your pores and hydrates your skin for a healthy, well-rested glow. Throw in a luxury hotel stay and some drinks by the pool, and we’re in. Catering to nature lovers just like us, The Grand Del Mar is offering a “Nature Renewal” spa package this fall.

Aiming to take advantage of the physical splendor of the neighboring Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, the sprawling but secluded Spanish-revival resort, which is located a half-hour north of San Diego, has put together an “earth-inspired” spa package to help guests unwind in the glories of nature. This isn’t about tofu and meditation, though.

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Hyatt Regency Mission Bay is Throwing Kids a Poolside Halloween Party

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  Site Where: 1441 Quivira Road [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92109
October 15, 2009 at 9:08 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

Instead of trick-or-treating in the cold, where your kid's forced to put a bulky coat over his adorable Transformers costume, you can spend Halloween with the fam poolside at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, so you can get some sun in San Diego while you partake in spooky events.

This is the first time the hotel is getting into the holiday spirit with Halloween happenings. The hotel's three water slides will get a scary twist with haunted music accompaniment and creepy lights. While you're in the water, you can watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, which will be screened near the pool. There'll also be a "Monster Mash" hula-hoop contest and fireside stories as well. But it wouldn't be Halloween without some treats, so while you watch the movie, gobble on s'mores oozing with orange marshmallows and candy corn.

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Get Physical at Hotel Solamar's Poolside Pilates Classes

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  Site Where: 435 6th Ave. [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101
October 13, 2009 at 8:43 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

We'd rather do Pilates or another class-based workout over huffing it on a treadmill. So it's a given that at Hotel Solamar, we'll forgo the stuffy fitness center to work our core in the Poolside Pilates program. The incentive to exercise is that the alfresco class takes place on the chic fourth-floor rooftop terrace, which offers a view of the city's skyline.

The classes, which are free for hotel guests and $10 for non-guests (cheaper than most drop-in Pilates classes), take place Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m. No need to BYOM, since mats are provided. Certified instructors from neighboring studio Hot Body Pilates will make you feel the burn and get your morning going with music that ranges from tranquil tunes to bumping beats.

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Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson Shack Up at the Se San Diego

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  Site Where: 1047 5th Ave. [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101
October 12, 2009 at 1:03 PM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz, his wifey, Melrose Place startlet Ashlee Simpson, and their son Bronx Mowgli checked into the Se San Diego last week.

According to People magazine, the couple rented two condos in the hotel. The condos come with perks like retractable glass walls—to give your room that alfresco feeling—and since the condos are on the upper floors of the 23-story-tall building, they have sweet views of the city. Plus, the condos have chic touches like Nepali carpets, Italian built-in kitchens and islands complete with appliances, and bathrooms with televisions built into the mirrors and steam showers.

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Go Hog Wild with Hard Rock San Diego's Free Bikes

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  Site Where: 207 Fifth Ave. [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101
October 7, 2009 at 8:48 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

The Hard Rock is king when it comes to gimmick packages, courting guests with guitars and other freebies. This time, the Hard Rock San Diego is dangling complimentary motorcycles to get your motor running.

Buy the Hard Rock and a Hog package and you'll get to ride a Harley during your two-night stay. To complete your biker experience, the hotel includes a map of the best hog rides in the San Diego area and a gift bag of Harley-Davidson goodies. But you'll have to bring your own leather jacket. The Hard Rock also throws in a $40 credit for a breakfast at in-house restaurant Maryjane's and entry to rooftop lounge Float and bar 207.

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Canine Cocktails: Dogs Get Their Own Happy Hour at Hotel Indigo San Diego

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  Site Where: 509 9th Ave [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92101-7213
September 29, 2009 at 8:52 AM | by MsRebecca | 1 Comment

We love dogs. And if we’re not traveling with our own in tow, we like to stay at hotels that have their own dogs-in-residence. Which means we have to plan a doggy-friendly trip to San Diego immediately. Not only does the Hotel Indigo San Diego have a mascot/puppy ambassador—that’s Sandie greeting guests in the photo—but the property also has a regular Canine Cocktails evening, on Tuesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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