Despite being the second largest city in California, San Diego is rarely an eye in English to book your vacation on the west coast, having been overshadowed by its neighbor San Francisco and Los Angeles, it seems more attractive.
A lack of direct flights from the UK has not helped the popularity of the city: British Airways was the only European airline to fly directly to San Diego, but dropped the road for the second time in 2002 because poor sales. The airline hopes that this is a case of "third time lucky" to have revived the route on June 1 this year.
A lack of direct flights from the UK has not helped the popularity of the city: British Airways was the only European airline to fly directly to San Diego, but dropped the road for the second time in 2002 because poor sales. The airline hopes that this is a case of "third time lucky" to have revived the route on June 1 this year.
BA is a good reason to put her faith in San Diego. The city is located on the Pacific coast offers miles of beautiful and is located in one of the best climate in the country.
It is a house much more compact and more family-friendly Los Angeles and is a wealth of world-class attractions, including the largest cultural park in North America and best zoo in the country.
It 'also the birthplace of California - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed in what is now San Diego Bay and claimed the area of Spain in 1542 - so a lot of history there.
And LA just two hours away, and the Mexican border 30 minutes on the road, making it a good base from which to explore.
So if you plan to book a trip, this is not to be missed ...
Balboa Park
At 1200 acres, more large, green oasis in American cultural and urban park is home to 15 museums, many of them housed in buildings of Spanish Colonial Revival-style hit that line went to El Prado Park.
You can rent a Segway, and the audio tour and overview of the park, beautiful gardens, or take your pick, and museums, including the San Diego Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Natural History in San Diego.
A visit is not likely to be sufficient, because the park is also a Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre (www.theoldglobe.org), and the famous San Diego Zoo (see below), so set aside a couple of days to explore.
www.balboapark.org
It is a house much more compact and more family-friendly Los Angeles and is a wealth of world-class attractions, including the largest cultural park in North America and best zoo in the country.
It 'also the birthplace of California - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed in what is now San Diego Bay and claimed the area of Spain in 1542 - so a lot of history there.
And LA just two hours away, and the Mexican border 30 minutes on the road, making it a good base from which to explore.
So if you plan to book a trip, this is not to be missed ...
Balboa Park
At 1200 acres, more large, green oasis in American cultural and urban park is home to 15 museums, many of them housed in buildings of Spanish Colonial Revival-style hit that line went to El Prado Park.
You can rent a Segway, and the audio tour and overview of the park, beautiful gardens, or take your pick, and museums, including the San Diego Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Natural History in San Diego.
A visit is not likely to be sufficient, because the park is also a Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre (www.theoldglobe.org), and the famous San Diego Zoo (see below), so set aside a couple of days to explore.
www.balboapark.org
San Diego Zoo
Attraction Balboa Park is one of the best zoos in the world and is steadily increasing its exhibits impressive. It is home to 4000 animals, the population of giant pandas in the United States thanks to a highly successful breeding program.
Other exhibitions are the Tigris River, Elephant Odyssey and the new Polar Bear dip, which opened in March last year, and a huge glass wall allows visitors to come face to face polar bears and how to dive in Tatqiq Kalluk ' ice water.
Visitors can also take a guided tour, sky tram, or buy a backstage pass, which allows you to enter the giraffes, rhinos a rough brush to hide and cry with the moon Kenai Arctic Wolf.
If this is not the interaction of animals enough for you, head to San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park, where more than 3,000 wild animals roam freely in a park of 2200 hectares, including gorillas, lions, elephants, tigers and white rhinoceros.
www.sandiegozoo.org
La Jolla
La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya) is derived from the Spanish gem, which is an appropriate name for this relaxed seaside community. Its beautiful beaches and coastline are ideal for swimming, kayaking and surfing, while divers and divers can get close to marine life in the protected waters of La Jolla Underwater Park Ecological Reserve.
There are a number of fantastic beaches, the prettiest of which is La Jolla Cove, where children can play in shallow water, while seals bask in the sun on the rocks nearby. Surfers head to Windansea beach and a lawn is parallel to La Jolla Shores, so it is ideal for picnics. There is even a nudist beach for those who want to throw their inhibitions and their swimsuits.
La Jolla also offers some good places to shop, such as Prospect Street, which is nicknamed "Rodeo Drive, San Diego," and is lined with small boutiques, antique shops and art galleries.
Golfers should head to Torrey Pines Golf Course, which hosted the 2008 U.S. Open, and offers great views of the coast and the Pacific (www.torreypinesgolfcourse.com).
www.lajollabythesea.com
Sailing aboard the Stars and Stripes
So much of life in San Diego is so focused on the water adventure on the high seas would be high on your agenda. There are dinner cruises and whale watching cruises and tours on offer, but if you are looking for a high-adrenaline trip to try to stumble Stars and Stripes USA-11 Racing Yacht.
The experience of Dennis Conner's America's Cup gives you the opportunity to experience the excitement of what would become like the crew of a yacht in the America's Cup Challenge is now co-owner Troy Sears, as its captain. Help lift, control and dropped the sail, work on your biceps with some grinding, and even have the opportunity to take the wheel of the ship.
Large groups can compete in two yachts, zig-zag across the bay to Coronado Island. Just make sure you know your port from your starboard, because there is little room for error and losing is not in the vocabulary Sear.
www.stars-stripes.com
Seaworld
Located in Mission Bay, Sea World is one of the most popular attractions in San Diego and Shamu, the killer has become a celebrity in town. Attractions in the park of 189 acres includes Penguin Encounter, Wild Arctic, Shark Encounter and visitors can feed the lions, swim with dolphins or learn to communicate with the belugas.
But it's Shamu Stadium, which attracts the crowds that flock to see the auditorium is an awesome park, twisting backflip and murderess whales during the regular rock concerts, soaking those who dare to sit in the front rows.
Nearby, enjoy a buffet backstage at Shamu by the pool while she performs tricks and slip out of the pool for further consideration.
The new attraction in the park is Sea Turtle Bay, which opened in June, and whose summit is Turtle Reef, a reservoir of 300,000 gallons with a large underwater viewing window where visitors can see the green turtles nested and .
Coming in 2012 is a Manta, a new roller-shaped mountains of giant Manta Ray, who held a series of twists, turns and dives next to the giant screens that show images of the underwater world of the rays.
www.seaworldsandiego.com
So much of life in San Diego is so focused on the water adventure on the high seas would be high on your agenda. There are dinner cruises and whale watching cruises and tours on offer, but if you are looking for a high-adrenaline trip to try to stumble Stars and Stripes USA-11 Racing Yacht.
The experience of Dennis Conner's America's Cup gives you the opportunity to experience the excitement of what would become like the crew of a yacht in the America's Cup Challenge is now co-owner Troy Sears, as its captain. Help lift, control and dropped the sail, work on your biceps with some grinding, and even have the opportunity to take the wheel of the ship.
Large groups can compete in two yachts, zig-zag across the bay to Coronado Island. Just make sure you know your port from your starboard, because there is little room for error and losing is not in the vocabulary Sear.
www.stars-stripes.com
Seaworld
Located in Mission Bay, Sea World is one of the most popular attractions in San Diego and Shamu, the killer has become a celebrity in town. Attractions in the park of 189 acres includes Penguin Encounter, Wild Arctic, Shark Encounter and visitors can feed the lions, swim with dolphins or learn to communicate with the belugas.
But it's Shamu Stadium, which attracts the crowds that flock to see the auditorium is an awesome park, twisting backflip and murderess whales during the regular rock concerts, soaking those who dare to sit in the front rows.
Nearby, enjoy a buffet backstage at Shamu by the pool while she performs tricks and slip out of the pool for further consideration.
The new attraction in the park is Sea Turtle Bay, which opened in June, and whose summit is Turtle Reef, a reservoir of 300,000 gallons with a large underwater viewing window where visitors can see the green turtles nested and .
Coming in 2012 is a Manta, a new roller-shaped mountains of giant Manta Ray, who held a series of twists, turns and dives next to the giant screens that show images of the underwater world of the rays.
www.seaworldsandiego.com
USS Midway Museum
Top Gun fans know the San Diego Association of the U.S. Army and long-term relationship goes back long before Tom Cruise Cruise on the Pacific Highway in his aviator shades.
The USS Midway was part of the fleet of U.S. Navy for 47 years and was home to more than 200,000 sailors during the Vietnam War and Persian Gulf wars. The carrier was decommissioned in 1992 and is now a giant floating museum in San Diego Bay.
The museum self-guided tour takes about two hours, and moments of the flight simulator ride and access to the reception mess of the ship, engine room and cabin. You can also listen to the stories and statistics on the museum guides, and those who really want to get an idea of what life was like on board may spend the night there.
Nearby is the Maritime Museum of San Diego (www.sdmaritime.com), which is one of the world's finest collections of historic ships, like the Star of India, the world's oldest merchant sailing vessel still in operation, the Dolphin USS deepest diving submarine in the world, and the ship California, the top official, and the State of California.
www.midway.org
Legoland
This 128-acre theme park located in Carlsbad Interactive, 30 minutes from downtown San Diego and offers visitors more than 50 rides and attractions in eight different play areas.
New for 2011 are the Hero Lego Factory, where kids can build and create their own heroes and villains of Star Wars Lego Miniland and an exhibition that recreates scenes from the movie and where children can make scale models of Lego Chewbacca R2-D2 and Darth Vader.
The park water park in the world do Lego theme which opened in June last year, and nearby there is the Sea Life Aquarium, which contains a kingdom hippocampus, a 35-foot long tunnel display of the ocean of sharks, rays and tropical fish and an aquarium containing 175,000 gallons a copy of the lost city of Atlantis (www.sealifeus.com).
http://california.legoland.com
Top Gun fans know the San Diego Association of the U.S. Army and long-term relationship goes back long before Tom Cruise Cruise on the Pacific Highway in his aviator shades.
The USS Midway was part of the fleet of U.S. Navy for 47 years and was home to more than 200,000 sailors during the Vietnam War and Persian Gulf wars. The carrier was decommissioned in 1992 and is now a giant floating museum in San Diego Bay.
The museum self-guided tour takes about two hours, and moments of the flight simulator ride and access to the reception mess of the ship, engine room and cabin. You can also listen to the stories and statistics on the museum guides, and those who really want to get an idea of what life was like on board may spend the night there.
Nearby is the Maritime Museum of San Diego (www.sdmaritime.com), which is one of the world's finest collections of historic ships, like the Star of India, the world's oldest merchant sailing vessel still in operation, the Dolphin USS deepest diving submarine in the world, and the ship California, the top official, and the State of California.
www.midway.org
Legoland
This 128-acre theme park located in Carlsbad Interactive, 30 minutes from downtown San Diego and offers visitors more than 50 rides and attractions in eight different play areas.
New for 2011 are the Hero Lego Factory, where kids can build and create their own heroes and villains of Star Wars Lego Miniland and an exhibition that recreates scenes from the movie and where children can make scale models of Lego Chewbacca R2-D2 and Darth Vader.
The park water park in the world do Lego theme which opened in June last year, and nearby there is the Sea Life Aquarium, which contains a kingdom hippocampus, a 35-foot long tunnel display of the ocean of sharks, rays and tropical fish and an aquarium containing 175,000 gallons a copy of the lost city of Atlantis (www.sealifeus.com).
http://california.legoland.com
Old Town State Historic Park
The site of San Diego's first Spanish settlement on the west coast of Mexico has a flavor and color blocks of six park is home to dozens of Mexican restaurants and gift shops.
As its name suggests, this is a skyscraper in sight, and the park is a rather open-air museum with carefully preserved or restored buildings, including offices in San Diego and the first newspaper original courthouse in the city.
Regular walks along the guides of the Department of State park are available if you want to learn more about the park's history, including various obsessions, which is said to have taken place in the old town over the years (www . parks.ca.gov).
If you just want to fill up a spicy margaritas and a friend of the head to the Plaza del Pasado where you can dine outdoors and live Mexican bands playing until late at night (www.plazadelpasado.com).
www.oldtownsandiegoguide.com
Gaslamp Quarter
The historic Gaslamp Quarter has moved to the center of Old Town San Diego's entertainment and nightlife, and the Grand Victorian buildings house the city's largest concentration of restaurants, bars, discos, shops, theaters and galleries.
The neighborhood has cleaned up his act in recent years, the area was before the infamous red light district, where Wyatt Earp ran three gambling halls in 1880 and was a little 'no-go area until 1980.
Back Alley Tours reveal the secrets and scandals that took place when the buildings were home to brothels and gambling halls and ladies of the Stingaree nightclub roaming the streets (http://backalleytours.com).
You will always find its fair share of colorful characters - a topless wrestler and a man with a cockatoo that two of our fellow drinkers - but the entertainment now go wrong in the bar at the top of the 'Hotel W by live music at House of Blues.
www.gaslamp.org
The site of San Diego's first Spanish settlement on the west coast of Mexico has a flavor and color blocks of six park is home to dozens of Mexican restaurants and gift shops.
As its name suggests, this is a skyscraper in sight, and the park is a rather open-air museum with carefully preserved or restored buildings, including offices in San Diego and the first newspaper original courthouse in the city.
Regular walks along the guides of the Department of State park are available if you want to learn more about the park's history, including various obsessions, which is said to have taken place in the old town over the years (www . parks.ca.gov).
If you just want to fill up a spicy margaritas and a friend of the head to the Plaza del Pasado where you can dine outdoors and live Mexican bands playing until late at night (www.plazadelpasado.com).
www.oldtownsandiegoguide.com
Gaslamp Quarter
The historic Gaslamp Quarter has moved to the center of Old Town San Diego's entertainment and nightlife, and the Grand Victorian buildings house the city's largest concentration of restaurants, bars, discos, shops, theaters and galleries.
The neighborhood has cleaned up his act in recent years, the area was before the infamous red light district, where Wyatt Earp ran three gambling halls in 1880 and was a little 'no-go area until 1980.
Back Alley Tours reveal the secrets and scandals that took place when the buildings were home to brothels and gambling halls and ladies of the Stingaree nightclub roaming the streets (http://backalleytours.com).
You will always find its fair share of colorful characters - a topless wrestler and a man with a cockatoo that two of our fellow drinkers - but the entertainment now go wrong in the bar at the top of the 'Hotel W by live music at House of Blues.
www.gaslamp.org
Coronado Island
Developed in late 1880 as a playground for the rich, this beach community has not lost its charm, and it would be an ideal base for family holidays.
The island - which is actually connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land - located just two kilometers' from San Diego around the soaring Coronado Bridge, but feels a world away from the skyscrapers and bustle of the city.
These low-rise buildings is an eclectic mix of architectural styles such as Victorian houses, Spanish villas and Beach Cottages and the streets are lined with palm trees.
The island's beaches are its major selling point, and Coronado Beach - a white sand - is regularly voted one of North America's top ten beaches. North Beach attracts surfers, while the Silver Strand State Beach is popular for swimming, cycling and camping campers.
You can rent sailboats, power boats, jet skis and kayaks in Glorietta Bay Marina and the Crown Loews' Marina Island, while surfers can take courses at the Coronado Surfing Academy (www.coronadosurfing.com).
There are regular walks landmarks of the island, including the house where the author of L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz, and the impressive Hotel del Coronado, which peaked red roof and Victorian architecture was the basis for Hollywood classic Some Like It Hot (www.coronadowalkingtour.com).
www.coronadovisitorcenter.com
Developed in late 1880 as a playground for the rich, this beach community has not lost its charm, and it would be an ideal base for family holidays.
The island - which is actually connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land - located just two kilometers' from San Diego around the soaring Coronado Bridge, but feels a world away from the skyscrapers and bustle of the city.
These low-rise buildings is an eclectic mix of architectural styles such as Victorian houses, Spanish villas and Beach Cottages and the streets are lined with palm trees.
The island's beaches are its major selling point, and Coronado Beach - a white sand - is regularly voted one of North America's top ten beaches. North Beach attracts surfers, while the Silver Strand State Beach is popular for swimming, cycling and camping campers.
You can rent sailboats, power boats, jet skis and kayaks in Glorietta Bay Marina and the Crown Loews' Marina Island, while surfers can take courses at the Coronado Surfing Academy (www.coronadosurfing.com).
There are regular walks landmarks of the island, including the house where the author of L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz, and the impressive Hotel del Coronado, which peaked red roof and Victorian architecture was the basis for Hollywood classic Some Like It Hot (www.coronadowalkingtour.com).
www.coronadovisitorcenter.com
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