Northwest Airlines Flights from Seattle (SEA) to San Diego (SAN)
Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on Northwest Airlines, which operates 4 regularly scheduled daily non-stop flights from Seattle (SEA) to San Diego (SAN), departing between 6:40am and 5:00pm. The average travel time from Seattle, WA to San Diego, CA is 2 hours and 41 minutes.*
* Some flights must connect with additional service on this airline.
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During your San Diego vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
San Diego Natural History Museum
This museum focuses on the flora, fauna, and mineralogy of Southern and Baja California. Kids marvel at the animals they find here, including live snakes, tarantulas, and turtles. As a binational museum, research is done on both sides of the border and most exhibits are bilingual. You can see them all in about half an hour. Call or check the museum's website for a current schedule of special visiting exhibits. There's a 300-seat large-format movie theater, and two films are included in the price of admission.
Spreckels Organ Pavilion
Given to San Diego citizens in 1914 by brothers John D. and Adolph Spreckels, the ornate, curved pavilion houses a magnificent organ with 4,518 individual pipes. They range in length from the size of a pencil to more than 32 feet. With only brief interruptions, the organ has been in continuous use, and today visitors can enjoy free hour-long concerts on Sundays at 2pm, given by civic organist Dr. Carol Williams. There's seating for 2,400, but little shade, so bring an umbrella on warm days.
San Diego Automotive Museum
Even if you don't know a distributor from a dipstick, you're bound to ooh-and-aah over the classic, antique, and exotic cars here. Every one is so pristine you'd swear it just rolled off the line, from an 1886 Benz to a 1931 Rolls-Royce Phaeton to the 1981 DeLorean. Most of the time, temporary shows take over the facility, so check ahead to see if it's one you're interested in. Some days you can take a peek at the ongoing restoration program, and the museum sponsors many outdoor car rallies and other events. Allow 30 to 45 minutes for your visit.
Empress Hotel of La Jolla
The Empress Hotel offers spacious quarters with traditional furnishings a block or two from La Jolla's main drag and the ocean. It's quieter here than at the premium clifftop properties, and you'll sacrifice little other than direct ocean views (many rooms on the top floors afford a partial view.) If you're planning to explore La Jolla on foot, the Empress is a good base, and it exudes a classiness many comparably priced chains lack, with warm service to boot. Rooms are tastefully decorated (and regularly renovated), and well equipped. Bathrooms are of average size but well appointed, and four "Empress" rooms have sitting areas with full-size sleeper sofas. Breakfast is set up next to a serene sun deck.
Catamaran Resort Hotel
Ideally situated right on Mission Bay, the Catamaran has its own bay and ocean beaches, complete with watersports facilities. Built in the 1950s, the hotel has been fully renovated to modern standards without losing its trademark Polynesian theme; the atrium lobby holds a 15-foot waterfall and full-size dugout canoe, koi-filled lagoons meander through the property, and the pool is surrounded by a real bamboo fence, rather than a fake metal one. The kitschy touches aren't plastic: these were lovingly incorporated before Tiki was tacky. After dark, torches blaze throughout the lush grounds, with numerous varieties of bamboo and palm sprouting; during the day, the resident tropical birds chirp away. Guest rooms -- in a 13-story building or one of the six two-story buildings -- have subdued South Pacific decor, and each has a balcony or patio. High floors of tower rooms have commanding views of the bay, the San Diego skyline, La Jolla, and Point Loma. Studios and suites have the added convenience of kitchenettes. The Catamaran is within a few blocks of Pacific Beach's restaurant and nightlife scene. It's also steps away from the bay's exceptional jogging and biking path; runners with tots-in-tow can rent jogging strollers at the hotel. The resort's Mississippi-style sternwheeler, the Bahia Belle, cruises the bay Friday and Saturday evenings (nightly in summer) and is free to hotel guests.
W San Diego
The W brand's 17th hotel is known for its swanky nightlife, which on weekends means there's a line to get in to the packed lobby. But if you hold a reservation, go to the front of the line and let one of the many black-clad employees lead you past the velvet rope to the front desk, where check-in can be accomplished by shouting above the din. Your cheery room will be a mod beach cabana beamed into downtown, replete with sexy shower. Nouveau nautique is the theme, with aqua and sand tones accenting the whites, a window seat for gazing down on this languid corner of downtown, and a beach ball-shaped pillow, which should be the only exclamation point needed to remind you that this hotel is simply fun. If not, cordless phones, flat-screen TVs, and cheeky minibar items should seal the deal.You might sample the restaurant, Rice (the food gets mixed reviews), or enjoy its adjoining bar, where cocktail waitresses clad in leather hot pants and fishnets serve blue-tinged cotton-candy treats that float through the room like tiny psychedelic clouds. A DJ spins here while another mixes in the bar called the Living Room -- i.e., the lobby. Here, the path leading to the bathrooms is a catwalk with see-through plexi portholes underfoot. Then there's the Beach, up on the third floor, where the open-air bar has a sand floor (heated at night), a fire pit, and cabanas; drinks are served in plastic, so you can safely roam the terrace barefoot. The cacophony generally dies down on Sunday, when the contingent of mostly Los Angelenos departs, and for a few days the W is the very model of a proper business hotel -- albeit one with a (tiny) pool, a 24-hour open-air gym, and a bank of 18 video screens glowing with an idealized landscape of bubbles floating heavenward. Look closely and you'll notice that each bubble has a floating W logo within it. Self-absorbed? To the max. Fun? Check me in.
