Nice location, right on bay, across from Anthony's (which has great fried clams) and a short walk from USS Midway and other pier stuff. Rate of $150 a night but this was South Tower, 4th floor with parking garage view. Parking cost $22/day. Rooms were not ready when we arrived (slightly early) and there were quite a few groups milling around the lobby waiting for their rooms to be ready, some of them were not even ready at the regular check in time (they must have been having a super busy week because of the holiday?). Nice gift shop and cool glass elevator that looks out on bay, fun to ride in when everything on the water was lit up at night.
THE HORRIFIC: this is a DOG FRIENDLY HOTEL. I don't know how obviously this is advertised on their website because I did not choose or book this place for our trip, but DO NOT STAY HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR DOGS BARKING EARLY IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU ARE ON VACATION. At first I thought I was having auditory hallucinations. Who brings their dog on vacation with them to San Diego? But, no, the nightmare that woke me up at 6 a.m. was real...actual real live dogs in my hotel. Never again.
HORROR #2: Being awakened by barking dogs was especially brutal since I had been awakened at midnight and again at 3 a.m. by train horns that blasted for fifteen minutes. Is this on the website? I don't know. But you'd think that, when you call to make the reservation, they could give you a heads up by saying, "Just FYI, the Santa Fe RR is a few blocks from here and train horns blast almost nonstop for fifteen minutes at midnight and 3 a.m." Not only will this keep me from staying in this hotel again in the future, it might even keep me from ever visiting San Diego again! My night of sleep was destroyed by what I can only describe as an airhorn going off inches from my head in the middle of the night. I don't think I've ever had such a bizarre hotel experience. Don't say I didn't warn ya'....
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