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W San Diego

Hotel Overview

Postmodern accommodations in downtown San Diego Located in the heart of downtown, this 19-floor hotel is three blocks from Little Italy, four blocks from San Diego Bay, and eight blocks from the historic Gaslamp Quarter. High-style amenities include a rooftop beach bar with cabanas, fire pit, and nightly movies, and an outdoor pool with an open-air fitness center offering poolside massage. All 261 guestrooms feature scenic bay window seating with thick cushions, blackboards with chalk and erasers, and color schemes that incorporate shades of sea, sky, and sand.

Property amenities

The 19-story W San Diego offers a trendy outdoor bar, restaurant, two lounges, live weekend entertainment, private outdoor swimming pool with adjacent indoor/outdoor fitness room, wireless Internet access in the public areas, gift shop, and valet parking. Massages can be arranged, and guests have discounted access to a gym 2 blocks from the hotel.

What to expect: This ultra-hip hotel attracts a sophisticated crowd of 30-something leisure and business guests, and super-cool local residents. The lobby is an enticing hangout, with its post-modern de'cor, dramatic lighting, big bay window seats, and 18 plasma monitors above the bar that project sunsets, northern lights, and other changing scenes.

Amenity highlights: There’s often a 3-hour wait to get into the popular third-floor outdoor Beach bar with heated sand floor, fire pit, cabanas, and heated concrete benches, but hotel guests get top priority.

Insider tip: Among the more unusual aspects of this property is its unique lexicon: fitness center is “sweat,” pool is “wet,” lobby is “living room,” elevator is “lift,” cocktail lounge is “magnet,” restrooms are “w.c.”

Dining

RICE - Creative Pacific-Asian cuisine is served for all meals in the hotel’s signature restaurant, with outdoor dining on a large street-front terrace behind a privacy brick wall.

Living Room - This lobby lounge features ever-changing scenes on 18 plasma monitors, bay windows, dramatic lighting, and shelves filled with seashells in clear glass canisters. A glass "cat walk" above the Living Room features live music Friday and Saturday nights.

Beach - Hotel guests receive priority entry into this popular outdoor bar. It features a fire pit, heated sand floor, cabanas, and upholstered and heated concrete benches.

Magnet - Facing the street, adjacent to the restaurant, this intimate cocktail lounge offers a place to hang out while awaiting a table.

Rooms

This hotel has 261 guestrooms. All include down comforters and pillow-top mattresses, 27-inch flat-screen TVs, CD and DVD players, high-speed Internet access, blackboards with chalk and erasers, and bay-window seating with thick cushions. Baths have tiled walls and floors, marble vanities with square sinks, and glass-enclosed shower stalls.

Wonderful room
Located on 3rd through 16th floors with city views. One king or two double beds, down comforters and pillow-top mattresses. Color schemes incorporate shades of sky, sea, and sand.

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