Ramada Inn Suites Gaslamp Convention Center, San Diego, CA - Reviews and Hotel Information

The Ramada St. James -- confusingly also billed as the Gaslamp Convention Center -- may once have been one of Southern California's leading hotels, but that was long, long ago. Today, the hotel is a noisy, rundown, just-this-side-of-nasty place where your neighbors may well be partaking too enthusiastically of the Gaslamp neighborhood's Red Light District attractions. Rooms are VERY small and bathroms more so; the window A/C units are loud; and many rooms face a dark shaft rather than the street. I'm honestly not sure how this place is maintaining its affiliation with Ramada; the overall atmosphere is most akin to a youth hostel. Top-floor suites are moderately better, but still feel rundown. I will admit that the place is adequately clean, but that's about all it has going for it.

The restaurant, which still hosts the dispiriting breakfast buffet, appears to be otherwise defunct.

Most of the desk staff appear to have wandered in off the street -- they were uniformly unhelpful and unprofessional.

Ramada Inn Suites Gaslamp Convention Center, San Diego

Ramada Inn Suites Gaslamp Convention Center

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