Hotel at Kelson Reviews Stuff

Best Western Silicon Valley Inn (Sunnyvale, CA) ★☆☆☆☆ I hope it’s better now than it was in 2008.

Looking down a green field to the coast at night. A path winds toward the ocean. Low, lit buildings are in the distance. A bright orange light shines out near the end of the path.

★★★★★ Not really a resort (at least in the late 2000s), just a very nice motel. Right on the coast and conveniently near Heart Castle.

Doubletree Hotel San Diego Downtown The location is good for Comic-Con, though it’s a 40-minute trip to the convention center. It’s hard to review much else, because we were there during major remodeling.

Holiday Inn Express Murrieta ★★★★☆ Nothing fancy, but nothing bad either. Friendly staff, clean rooms, free WiFi and breakfast, ample car chargers. Next to a great coffee shop.

Holiday Inn on the Bay (San Diego)

A somewhat tall, pale blue building with balconies lining one side and palm trees at the base, seen on a bright sunny day. A lower, round building is visible in the foreground. Beyond it are a street, some more parking, then docks with warehouses and a still harbor. The far shore is also visible, with lower buildings near the shore and low hills fading into the haze in the distance.

The hotel worked out well for Comic-Con, both on its own merits and in its location near Little Italy and just close enough that you can walk if you have to.

Hotel St. James (San Diego)

Panoramic view of a cityscape from a rooftop. Lower buildings with flat roofs, and in the distance taller buildings of all sorts of shapes. A few of the shorter ones clearly have old-fashioned facades, and you can juts make out the sail-like covering of the San Diego Convention Center.

★★★★☆ Historic hotel in the Gaslamp area that’s been renovated since I was last there.

Mark Twain Hotel (Closed) ★★★★☆ Classic hotel, small rooms, right on the line between the financial district and Tenderloin. Now the Tilden Hotel, closed since 2020.

Mosser Hotel (San Francisco)

City street during daylight. Across the way a boxy building with trees in front of it. Beyond an intersection is a taller building with a large glass front-pane at the corner labeled METREON. An old-style extruded window area is visible at right, close to the viewpoint.

★★★★☆ Nice, well-located for conventions at Moscone Center, but tiny rooms by modern standards.

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