Re: Re: A Week With the Family - Keep Everyone Happy Posted: Sat December 25, 2004 09:58 PM UTC
Old town is a bunch of little shops and tourist traps. It is of fairly recent construction, not really historically interesting. What history there is, is pretty drab and unlikely to interest an active family. I do not understand why people go there, much less suggest that others do. The "main drag" is a bunch of chain hotels and chrome/glass tourist watering holes.
San Diego is pretty much about beaches. Ocean Beach is a highly unique community with a very unique pattern of beaches from the tidepools or the Cliffs, to the pier and main surfing beach to the river inlet of Dog Beach. It has lots of much more interesting stores and bars where some very colorful locals hang out.
Pacific Beach has miles of walkway, doubling back onto the bay. It is sprinkled with boat rental, bike rental, skate rental, a wonderful indoor pool, volleyball courts that have produced Olympic champions and top pros...a short scenic drive, on a bus route leads to La Jolla, an art community with breathtaking waterfront, from the Cove to the seal community at Children's beach, with the Comtemporary Art Museum and galleries thrown in.
Pacific Beach is LINED with cottages, motels, hotels, etc. check websites. Or, think about the links I posted above for something out of the ordinary grind. You don't have to be tourist fodder, that's what sites like this are all about, the ability to find out something from locals.
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