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with private bath. If the local nightlife doesn't suffice, there are movie nights and group
dinners to join. Access is 24-hour.
USA Hostels San Diego
HOSTEL
with shared bath incl breakfast from $33/79; )
Lots of charm and color at this convivial hostel in a former Victorian-era hotel. Look for
cheerful rooms, a full kitchen, a communal lounge for chilling and in-house parties and
beach barbecues. Rates include linens, lockers and pancakes for breakfast. And it's smack-
dab in the middle of Gaslamp nightlife. No air-con.
Old Town
Cosmopolitan Hotel
HISTORIC B&B
$150-250; front desk 9am-9pm; )
Right in Old Town State Park, this creaky, 10-room hotel from 1870 has oodles of charm,
antique furnishings, a possible haunting (!) and a restaurant downstairs for lunch and din-
ner. Don't go expecting modern conveniences like phones and TV, though there's free wi-
fi. Breakfast is a simple affair based on coffee and scones. Free parking.
Coronado
Glorietta Bay Inn
HISTORIC
incl breakfast from $219; )
Overshadowed by the neighboring Hotel del Coronado, the Glorietta is built in and around
a neoclassical 1908 mansion (11 rooms in the mansion, 89 in boxier two-story buildings).
Rooms have handsome furnishings and extras such as triple-sheeted beds and high-end
bath products. Mansion rooms are more expensive and have even more luxe amenities.
El Cordova Hotel
HISTORIC
