If you’re looking for prices you can afford for an excellent San Diego vacation, check out “The Rock”, Hard Rock, that is. Located at the entrance to Gaslamp Quarter, the hotel features incredible rooms that offer comfort, cool and location. You can go down to the lobby for music and drinks, or head out the door for some great Gaslamp steaks and sizzling nightlife.

Check out prices at Hard Rock these days!

Nearby, enjoy a variety of family entertainment. Our favorites include San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park, Sea World, and shopping for silver jewelry, leather goods, and even pharmaceuticals at a fraction of U.S. prices just across the border in Tijuana.

Be sure to check out Hard Rock soon. There are some deals, but by summer, they’ll be gone.

Hard Rock Hotel

boat parade

It is time to start making your plans for the winter holiday. Everyone knows that San Diego provides the warmest temperatures and finest beaches for a winter escape. Some of the highlights to this exciting vacation include special events held annually on the bay and at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

In addition to Horton Plaza and the shopping malls all aglow with festival lights and specials tree decorations, the annual San Diego Christmas Boat Parade, called San Diego Bay Parade of Lights, enters the water with lit yachts decorated in themes provided each year. In 2009 the theme was announced as “Christmas at the Zoo.” Expect some wonderful decorations and fanciful ideas as lights, music and colors splash through the harbor. sdparadeoflights.org

Over in Del Mar, Holiday of Lights, a drive through event, begins after Thanksgiving through New Year’s. This event charges a fee for you to drive your car through a massive lights display of themes relating to the holidays. It is fun for the entire family…even grandma who can’t walk well will enjoy this event. sdfair.com provides updates annually. For hotels near this marvelous bay boat parade, consider staying at several seaport ocean hotels such as the new

Hilton San Diego Bayfront.