Top Hotels Near Botanical Building in San Diego from NZ$111

"Terrible lumpy mattress"

"We had the nicest customer service by Matthew at the front desk. We were given a beautiful room, clean and spacious. Linens were nice, bed very comfortable. The gym is top notch with lots of equipment to choose from, all in good working order. We enjoyed the mango margaritas from the bar, excellent! "

"Everything was cool staff was friendly only problem was there parking. Not enough parking for guest I’m not sure why tell us there’s plenty of parking when there isn’t. Found myself driving around for a while "

"We got there at 4:10 (check in is at 4) ready to check in, get settled and then get ready for our dinner plans and show that we had been planning for months. Upon arrival we were told "Housekeeping is just finishing up. But you can enjoy our cafe, or bar" No reason, just a generic statement. I felt like I was in the twilight zone. I said "but check out is at 11, they've been cleaning for 5 hours, how dirty was the room?" They said it was due to a late checkout. Late checkout??? How is that our issue.? I was deeply upset as this was a plan that I had made months in advance, part of it being a surprise to my husband as I had fancy reservations and tickets to the San Diego Civic Theatre. I was supposed to have ample time to get dressed up, makeup, hair etc. An HOUR AND a HALF Later after just sitting we got our keys. I was then told by a supervisor that we could talk about compensation after we received our keys, but when I went back down there it was like he completely changed his tune. I told him we lost our reservations and at that point I was too tired to even dress up and worry about all of that. Could they at least compensate a full dinner at their restaurant? $20 Twenty dollars was all they could offer, as they just stared at me saying "we understand, so sorry, yes I understand this was frustrating" At the end of it I was actually just sad. We hadn't planned a wknd away for a long time, and it had meant alot to me. Just to be ruined."

"We were extremely happy with the hotel and staff. It was an amazing stay. The only negative, which was very minor, was the cleanliness of the pool and hot tubs. Quite a bit of sand / debris at the bottom and floating trash (napkins, etc). I suspect this was more due to the constant high winds blowing things into the pool so was not overly concerned."

"This property is in a good location, pretty centrally located to touristy things. Relatively close to Balboa Park that's probably walkable, but we took a rideshare. It's a 20- or so minute walk to Gaslamp, but you will encounter plenty of homeless along the way. No one questionable was loitering outside of the hotel, but a room key is required to go anywhere in the hotel to keep non-guests from entering. The breakfast was quite good. Every day they had eggs, either bacon or sausage, biscuits, potatoes, pancakes, cereals, yogurt and whole fruit. The staff was nice, but a housekeeping person walked into my room on checkout day after knocking quietly and not waiting more than 10 seconds for me to answer - and this was 30 min before standard checkout time and after I had secured late checkout a couple of hours before. She was apologetic, but there's no reason to enter someone's room before checkout time who hasn't checked out yet. We received a corner room that was quite large but on the street level, and the traffic noise was pretty bad. We got used to it by the third night. San Diego is very hilly, and this hotel is on a really steep hill. You'll get out of breath walking if you're not in good shape."

"The staff was really awesome. We had an event to go to at checkout time so they let us checkin a little early which was so nice! The room and view was great. The AC was a little noisy and we were next to an ice machine and elevator so it was a bit nosier than I would have liked, but overall the room was clean, the service was great and we also got free coffee at the coffee cart in the AM which was a nice surprise. Great location. We walked over to the big and topsail for food and walked to Embarcadero which was only 1 mile away. I would definitely stay again. The price was reasonable as well."

"The only problem is parking"

"Basic room and very small space bathroom hotel has very limited service "