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04/26/2005 12:39:03 AM · #1 |
My wife, 3 kids (8, 4, & 2), and I are planning on going to San Diego for 3 or 4 days in late July / early August this year. The trip is being spurred by the fact that we just want to get out of town for a few days (we have 5 airline tickets that we either use or loose and figured why not hit the San Diego Zoo for starters).
Does anybody have any suggestions for other stuff to hit during our time there? |
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04/26/2005 12:53:49 AM · #2 |
I have a ton of suggestions....(I grew up in San Diego and I just visited last year) so I can tell you a few great places....but better yet.....I'll give you a link to see some of these for yourself:
San Diego is a great city that has a lot to offer on a both an expensive and frugal budget. My mom and I spent a week in San Diego and did it on about $1,000+ budget.
A photo portrait of our trip
Hope this helped....feel free to PM me if you have any more questions...
First off Seaworld, Disneyland, and the San Diego Zoo are all nice in their own right. But you'll drop a few hundred dollars going to all of those.
When you can go to La Jolla and get this close to a seal
Also go to the Sunny Jim cave while in La Jolla (I think it cost $3)...you'll walk down a flight of stairs and feel like Indiana Jones himself...
San Diego's Balboa park is one of the highest concentrations of museums in the world. There is a superb Aerospace museum, automobile museum, natural history, gardens, and great "science/discovery" museum with a 360 degree sphere theatre. All in all you can spend a solid day, even two at Balboa park and not see all it has to offer.
Then be sure to check out the Star of India and the other Maritime Museums by the water. Great seafood restauraunts near there too.
I'd also recommend a Padres baseball game if you like baseball. It is a brand new stadium and perhaps one of the most beautiful and artistic baseball stadiums. You can get great seats for reasonable prices. For like $40 we were 6 rows back just past first base.
Tijuana is just over the border....
And be sure to eat your full of tacos from the little alberto's, roberto's aiberto's (seemingly all the restaurant/stands that end in bertos have good cheap food).
And never forget the beaches.....make sure you catch a sunset...
Message edited by author 2005-04-26 01:13:52. |
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04/26/2005 01:05:36 AM · #3 |
Hi Robert,
Let me get my act together and I'll add to this thread in a bit.
(Didn't want you to think you were being ignored)
:) |
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04/26/2005 10:50:09 AM · #4 |
BradP I envy you...
You got talent and you live in SD. *lol*
(although here in Connecticut we've had a 2-week stint of blue skies and low humidity (excepting one rainy day like 3 days ago). I am sure somewhere in hell demons are freezing their arses off) |
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04/26/2005 11:12:52 AM · #5 |
Balboa Park, right next to the Zoo, is a nice place to spend the day. It's one of my most favorite places in San Diego (I grew up there). Lot's of museums and wonderful photo-ops.
Mission Beach is fun, roller coaster, shops and the boardwalk. Of course, I haven't been there in a few years so it may have changed a little.
Then there's Sea World and the Wild Animal Park as well which the kids would really like. The Gaslamp district downtown is a great night out for the adults, good restaruants and such.
Old town is nice also, Bazaar Del Mundo has some great mexican food and shops.
I always used to love going to eat breakfast at the Firehouse Beach cafe in Pacific beach. You can sit up on the roof deck and enjoy the ocean view and breezes. And Corvette's diner in Hillcrest is also a fun place.
You can't go wrong when you visit San Diego, there's just tons of things to do. I'm missing alot and will add more as they pop into my head. Have a great time and take your sunscreen! :-)
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04/26/2005 11:14:55 AM · #6 |
"You can't go wrong when you visit San Diego"
[[[Ya you can....by simply driving north an hour and wasting your time in hazy grimy L.A.]]]
*lol*
I have so many friends who've gone and just exclaimed they should have spent the entire time in S.D. and not bothered with L.A. |
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04/26/2005 11:19:55 AM · #7 |
Well, LA is a world unto itself, that's for sure.
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04/26/2005 11:27:34 AM · #8 |
Los Angelos.... "or fallen angelos" ???
*lol*
I mean, just drive thru Hollywood, CA and you realize *ick* except for a few gourmet areas... |
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04/26/2005 07:15:13 PM · #9 |
| So did my post help any Rob? |
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04/26/2005 07:36:21 PM · #10 |
Well let's see...3 or 4 days worth.
The San Diego Zoo as you mentined is on your list. You may want to take advantage of any specials they have and take a visit to the Wild Animal Park as well (often have a special on tickets to both). Both are very much a day in themselves.
Balboa Park (near the zoo) is somewhere you could get lost for a whole day just wandering about. (Not sure if the Botanical Gardens are open right now though)
The coastline anywhere. Downtown San Diego, Coronado, Ocean Beach, Pacific beach, La Jolla & Del mar are a worthy coastline drive.
Point Loma & the Cabrillo National Monument/Lighthouse offers a scenic view that is hard to imagine.
Take a look at some shots I have (I have dumped quite a few out though) in my San Diego Landscapes folder:
and in scalvert's SD get together folder
for some sights and ideas. |
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04/26/2005 07:47:47 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by BradP:
take a visit to the Wild Animal Park as well |
Get pictures of the Vultures and Hawks! :) |
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04/26/2005 09:17:51 PM · #12 |
I take the San Diego Wild Animal Park over the SD zoo any day...unless you specifically want the pandas and koalas...Zoo is close to downtown which most tourist don't get to far away from.
We have Birch Aquarium (theres and Ansel shot here some where on the site of the pier) for a quick fun thing to do... Close is Mount Soledad Cross/memorial get some shots of that before it is moved (flippin freaks). La Jolla is just down the hill from that see the seals at the Childrens Pool. Just up the next hill is the Salk Institute and SDSU with its Upside-down pyrmid library. Next thing you know it you are at Del Mar...
Point Loma and Cabrillo have been mentioned excellent places...
ED: There is a pass you can get at a discount that will get you in to the Zoo, Wild Animal park and Sea World.
Message edited by author 2005-04-26 21:19:47. |
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04/26/2005 09:27:28 PM · #13 |
Just up the next hill is the Salk Institute and SDSU with its Upside-down pyrmid library.
(That would be UCSD with the upside-down pyramid library).
James, who can't think of anything else that hasn't already been mentioned |
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04/26/2005 09:35:24 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Nordlys:
Just up the next hill is the Salk Institute and SDSU with its Upside-down pyrmid library.
(That would be UCSD with the upside-down pyramid library).
James, who can't think of anything else that hasn't already been mentioned |
ahh that building is evil! I'm actually in it right now...should be studying but on DPC instead.
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04/26/2005 10:01:18 PM · #15 |
ahh that building is evil! I'm actually in it right now...should be studying but on DPC instead.
:-) I work in the SERF building just down the road, though I played hooky today and stayed at home.
Nordlys |
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04/26/2005 10:13:07 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Nordlys:
ahh that building is evil! I'm actually in it right now...should be studying but on DPC instead.
:-) I work in the SERF building just down the road, though I played hooky today and stayed at home.
Nordlys |
and I am just across the street from you in CMRR building. We couild probably take pictures of each other without leaving our respective offices :)
...small DPC world |
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04/26/2005 10:32:00 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
BradP I envy you...
You got talent and you live in SD. *lol*
(although here in Connecticut we've had a 2-week stint of blue skies and low humidity (excepting one rainy day like 3 days ago). I am sure somewhere in hell demons are freezing their arses off) |
Hell, I'm a 4th-generation native San Diegan and 5 years ago I emigrated to Cape Cod for my retirment. Why? Because I like weather...
For my money, the Wild Animal Park is more of a must-see than the Zoo, unless you've never seen a world class zoo, but both are wonderful. If you like fishing at all, they have inexpensive, half-day deep-sea fishing trips out of the landings on Point Loma, and tackle for rent. The trips are kid-friendly. There's a FINE seafood take-out by the landings also, Point Loma Sea Foods, killer squid sammich on home-made sourdough bread.
If you're into astronomy, the Palomar observatory is a fine drive into the back country and up-up-up...
You'll be there during the Del Mar horse racing season; that's a sweet old track and hard by the beach. There are options.... (some to the beach, some to the track)
I haven't seen a suggestion in here I thought was a bad one. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Tijuana, though. I've always liked Tijuana, and there's some fine eating there...
You'll have fun. Just steer clear of bearded photographers with olympian cannons and you'll be fine...
Robt.
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04/26/2005 10:34:12 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by clenny:
Originally posted by Nordlys:
Just up the next hill is the Salk Institute and SDSU with its Upside-down pyrmid library.
(That would be UCSD with the upside-down pyramid library).
James, who can't think of anything else that hasn't already been mentioned |
ahh that building is evil! I'm actually in it right now...should be studying but on DPC instead.
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Sorry, I'm a slacker...get the to schools mixed up all the time. |
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04/26/2005 10:35:36 PM · #19 |
"Tijuana is just over the border.... "
[[[Just re-read the first reply.... ;) ]]] |
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04/26/2005 10:41:35 PM · #20 |
...small DPC world
Indeed. So you're in physics, too? ;-) (Technically I'm employed by the physics department, but am really a computer scientist. I work with Prof. Mike Norman doing computational astrophysics stuff.)
Nordlys
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04/26/2005 10:41:46 PM · #21 |
If you want to get out of the city for a day and head out to the country, go to Julian. It's a nice drive and a nice little place to visit.
And yes, Del mar is lovely. Some nice shops and food there as well as the beach. It's a very nice drive along the coast.
TJ can be fun, but I was a teen in San Diego and spent mostly nights there, but you didn't hear that from me and I'll deny it if you tell my folks!! :-) But you can take the trolley down there. It takes you right to the border. It's a fun trip.
Oh and Seaport village is cool too, in the downtown area.
Message edited by author 2005-04-26 22:44:16.
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04/27/2005 12:18:00 AM · #22 |
Speaking of Julian (known for their apple pie), just a bit before you get there is Ramona which is a small agricultural town but on the 25th and 26th of June is the Props and Rods Airshow. This is a pretty cool event that has a lot of planes stunt and static and a huge hot rod show.
If you like hiking and rock climbing (there is an area for the kids) or picnicing Mission Trails Regional Park/Old Mission Dam/Lake Murray has some cool trails and Plenty of species of birds...
Next on my list of things to do in SD is jump on train in Campo and ride down to Tecate, mexico. |
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