Entertainment & Shopping
The villages that make up San Diego offer a wide array of nightlife opportunities. The beaches offer a lid-back style, with live music venues and clubs that dot the landscape here. The area is also a favorite of the college crowd, making it crowded and chaotic on weekend nights. The downtown and Gaslamp areas offer a more urban experience, with underground clubs, dance halls and dive bars permeating the streets and back alleys here. The village of La Jolla offers some upscale dance clubs, as do some of the other smaller coastal villages. If you are looking for nightlife without boundaries, then look no farther than the villages that make up San Diego.
San Diego Shopping
Welcome to a shoppers paradise! San Diego boasts some of the finest shopping opportunities outside the larger, and more crowded Los Angeles 2 hours to the north. Horton Plaza anchors the downtown shopping experience, and with the smaller Seaport Village makes for a great day spent window-shopping in the heart of the city. A 15-minute ride on the light rail system and you end up in Mission Valley, home to the area’s largest malls. Fashion Valley, and the adjacent shopping areas have developed into one of the most popular and favorite shopping destinations around. Collectively they are home to over 300 different and unique shops, restaurants and theatres, making this a one stop shopping extravaganza!
Closer to the coast and 15 minutes from the downtown area is the village of La Jolla, home to some of the finest upscale shopping around. Home to the likes of Ralph Lauren and a host of Italian designers, La Jolla is worth a visit, even of it’s for a long window shopping session. There are numerous other smaller villages that offer their own, unique experience, making the city of San Diego a shopper’s nirvana.
San Diego's Popular Shopping Destinations
Seaport Village located at the foot of West Harbor Drive619.235.4014 Seaport Village is your opportunity to come and meander through a fishing village-like setting while gazing across San Diego Bay. With our warm, sunny days it makes for a great, lazy afternoon. If you are looking for a quick escape from the convention crowds your in luck! Just come down for an hour, hang out & take in all the sunshine that we can muster up here in America’s Finest City, clearing out your mind for a hectic day ahead...
Horton Plaza 619.239.8180 Experience an outdoor shopping experience like no other on the west coast. This outdoor shopping center offers over 130 specialty stores, 2 theaters a great food court and over 2,600 parking spaces for your added convenience. Located in the heart of downtown San Diego, and adjacent to the hostoric Gaslamp Quarter, Horton Plaza offers up the best of the city, all with in two block area and only a 5 minute walk from the convention center.
Bazaar Del Mundo Old Town 2754 Calhoun St.619.296.3161 Bazaar Del Mundo offers visitors a peek into Old California with all the spanish flair of the colonial period. This unique and very California shopping experience, located within the Old Town State Park, offers daily live music, San Diego's finest Mexican food and 16 international shops for you to enjoy. Hop on the red trolley and within 6 stops you are there, with a frosty cold beverage in your hand and the sounds of mariachi's clinging to the soft trade winds...creating memories of a truly great trip to San Diego.
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