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The Pearl Pours a Brewski Brunch for San Diego Beer Week
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
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
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
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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Parisi Is the Little Green Hotel that Could
When you hear about hotels going green, names of the big brands pop up, like Kimpton and The Westin. But little guys are leading the eco charge too, like the Hotel Parisi, inconspicuously tucked away above a Roxy/Quicksilver and a Victoria's Secret in tony La Jolla, California.
One of the 29-room boutique hotel's greenest accomplishments has been becoming the first and only hotel in the San Diego area to offset all of the electricity it consumes with wind power, according to hotel officials. It purchased 294,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy credits, thereby lessening its carbon footprint. To save more on electricity, the hotel installed a keycard-activated light system, which ensures that the lights are off when guests leave the room to go to the nearby coves.
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You've Got to Commit to the 'Earth-Inspired' Spa Package at The Grand Del Mar
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
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
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
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
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
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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The Ivy Hotel's Ultra Lounge Turns into a Wine Bar
San Diego's Ivy Hotel will unveil a new Ultra Lounge and Wine Bar on Oct. 1 to give you more and cheaper options to get tipsy off of vino.
Although the hotel's been promoting the "new Ultra Lounge and Wine Bar," it's not so much "new" as it is a shift in focus to wines. The Ultra Lounge didn't close for renovations or anything. Instead, 20 new WineStations were installed along orange walls in the ground-floor lounge.
The WineStations will pour 80 wines by the glass, allowing you three ways to get drunky-drunk: You can order "taste" portions at 1.5 oz. each, "half" glasses at 4 oz. and "full" glasses at 6 oz. Prices range from $1.76 for a taste of the 2007 Williamette Valley Riesling to a full glass of the 2004 Opus One for $28.47.
The taste option will allow oenophiles on a budget to sample some rare vintages for cheap, which is a departure for the luxury hotel, whose rooms run around $200 a night.
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