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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.
Botanical Building and Lily Pond
This serene park within the park is one of my favorite hideouts. Ferns, orchids, impatiens, begonias, and other plants -- about 2,100 tropical and flowering varieties, plus rotating exhibits -- are sheltered beneath a domed lath house. The graceful 250-foot-long building, part of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, is one of the world's largest wood lath structures, and emerged from a complete renovation in 2002. Kids love the "touch and smell" garden and the smelly bog of carnivorous plants. The lily pond out front attracts sun worshipers, painters, and street entertainers.
San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum
One of the country's few multisport museums, the slick Hall of Champions has been a destination for sports fans since 1961. The museum highlights more than 40 professional and amateur sports. More than 25 exhibits surround a centerpiece statue, the Discus Thrower. One particularly interesting exhibit is devoted to athletes with disabilities. You can see it all in under an hour.
Doubletree Hotel San Diego/Del Mar
We are conveniently located just 17 miles north of the San Diego International Airport, near the LaJolla / Golden Triangle Biotech center, at the intersection of Hwy I-5 and Carmel Valley Road. We are just minutes from the famous Southern California Beaches , La Jolla, Del Mar Race Track, Legoland, the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Torrey Pines & Del Mar National golf courses.Luxurious accommodations include 221 spacious guest rooms and suites with all the amenities you would expect of a ...
Tower 23 Hotel
TOWER23 is San Diego's only luxury, lifestyle hotel on the beach and one of California's most stylish and contemporary urban resorts. The hotel derives its name from Lifeguard Tower 23 positioned on the beach in front of the hotel and creates a cool haven to enjoy one of America's best cities. TOWER23 is blessed with a beachfront location on one of Southern California's premier beaches - Pacific Beach. The exclusive resort community of La Jolla is just north of the hotel. Unique shops and ...
Lafayette Hotel and Suites
Welcome to Lafayette Hotel & Suites San Diego. Hollywood's most glamorous stars came night after night to what was the resort hotel's fashionable Mississippi Ballroom to drink, dine and dance to the music of Ted Fio Rito and other top-drawer big bands. The Mississippi Ballroom is now a popular wedding and banquet Hall.The hotel's popularity and tradition of gracious hospitality continues today. This elegant Colonial-style mansion is a San Diego landmark and has maintained its elegant charm ...
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