Pages Tagged “Hotel”
Reviews
- Best Western Silicon Valley Inn (Sunnyvale, CA) ★☆☆☆☆ I hope it’s better now than it was in 2008.
- Cavalier Oceanfront Resort (San Simeon)
- 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)
- Hotel St. James (San Diego)
- 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)
- Omni Hotel San Diego Rooms and service are very nice, and it’s right across the street from the convention center.
Blog Posts
- Color Scheme: Brutalist Blue
Adding a splash of color to Brutalist design, in the final stages of converting an office building near LAX to a hotel. Believe it or not, the bolted-on cross pieces are new. I can’t imagine they’re aesthetic, which makes me wonder if it’s some sort of earthquake retrofitting and they’re making the best of it. […]
- WiFi is the new Color TV
When I was a kid, motels still advertised “COLOR TV!” on their signs to entice weary drivers to choose their facilities over the next one down the road. I’m pretty sure color TV was standard by then, but the signs remained. These says, every motel I drive past has “Wi-Fi” on the sign, for the […]
- The Future is Here
We may not have jet packs and flying cars, but we have autonomous robots rolling into hotel elevators to deliver room service.
- Hotels and the Illusion of Simplicity
A hotel stay feels like you’ve simplified your life, but it’s an illusion. Your complexities are deferred, and someone still has to handle maintenance.
- Four Travel Lessons Learned at Chicon
Hotel laundry, flying with a toddler, rental cars and parking in Chicago, and the cost of internet access.
- Comic-Con Hotel Deadline & Second Chances
Today’s the last day to cancel a hotel reservation with no penalty, so rooms should free up soon. If you’re waitlisted, you may have a second chance at a hotel.
- How to Get a Hotel for Comic-Con
Planning to go to San Diego, but couldn’t get a hotel room through the convention? Here are some things you can try to find a place to stay during the con.
- Comic-Con Hotel Experience: 2010
After 8 hours I finally got my hotel confirmation. It wasn’t one of the 12 I’d requested, but it’s downtown. Here’s what happened, from what I could see.
- Pre-Game Thoughts on the New Comic-Con Hotel Procedure
SDCC used to let you pick your hotel from the rooms still available, then crash. Now you’ll submit a list of choices and wait to hear back from them.
- Comic-Con 2010 Hotel Block Opens March 18
SDCC and Travel Planners are making some interesting changes to the hotel registration system to fix some of last year’s problems. But will they work?
- San Diego and Butterfly Boucher
We took a weekend trip to San Diego, hit Old Town and the Gaslamp District, and saw Butterly Boucher in concert at the House of Blues.
- Comic-Con Hotel Booked – Sort Of (2009)
It took 1 1/2 hours, but I managed to reserve a hotel for this year’s Comic-Con by phone. I never did get through online.
- Comic-Con Hotel Block Opens March 19, 2009
Well, that’s cutting it close with just a few weeks’ warning. It used to be you’d know months ahead. Of course, the con block used to not sell out either.
- San Diego Weekend
We went to San Diego this weekend for a company event. The drive down on Saturday was quite nice — much faster than any of the times we’ve driven down for Comic-Con, for instance. It took us only an hour and 20 minutes to get to Old Town San Diego, and that was with taking […]
- Getting a Hotel for Comic Con (2008)
Tomorrow morning at 9:00 PST, rooms in the convention block go on sale for this year’s Comic-Con International. I was going to write up a bunch of tips last week, but CCI beat me to it by launching their own blog, Staying In San Diego. Visit it today, because it’ll probably be swamped tomorrow. (Though […]
- Comic-Con Hotel Booked! (2007)
Jammed phone lines, a busy fax, and an overloaded website turned a 5-minute booking process into an agonizing hour of waiting, timeouts, errors and restarts
- A Few Reservations (Comic-Con 2006)
Comic-Con hotel rooms sold out within hours this year. The crunch is so bad the agency has sent out a plea for people to cancel extra rooms they don’t need.
- Only in San Diego? Volume 2 Part 1
The Vegetable Garage, cactus feet, Sam Adams smoothies, Haunted Hotel, a cubic Stonehenge, and other strange sights found around San Diego.
- Pillow Progression
Sometimes hotel cleaning staff pays attention to the way you’re using the room, and adapts.