Westin San Diego

Hope you like to pay for EVERYTHING.

The Westin San Diego has a great location. It is close to PETCO park, the Midway museum and the harbor. It is a short drive to La Jolla, the San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Seaworld, etc. The problem with the hotel is that the high room price is just the start to the a la carte expenditures. You will pay 30+ dollars A NIGHT for parking, another high fee for Internet, crazy food prices, and so forth. The experience gets worse: there is no self parking on the grounds. There is, however, a parking garage across the street. The hotel staff lied outright about the fees and procedures for this facility (I did worry about car safety because the hotel is next to the bus station, the YMCA and everything that comes with that eg block after block of homeless and drug users (we saw countless dealings and usings every time we approached the hotel). Yet, after I saw the valet park my car in this very garage, I went over and checked things out myself and got the truth that saved me $17 per night. The concierge had tickets to many places, but no combination tickets (zoo + wild animal park; see world and both parks; and so forth) and none to the wild animal park or Midway museum. This is not good if you have children or expect to go to several attractions. The food prices were 6 and 7 times what you would pay just by walking a block down the road for the very same food (though we didn't really want to eat in the hotel anyway). The pool was nothing to write home about, and there were fees just to use the phone, even if the call was local or 800.
In short, the hotel had a nice bed and the staff were friendly enough. But, if your company is not footing the bill I would not stay here. Even if you were able to get a good internet rate, by the time they get done adding fees on the cost will not be worth it. There are plenty of better hotels in better locations with better deals.

Unique Quality: Unique, but not in a good way - no self parking on the premises. You are going to pay to park and pay a lot. Don't pay for the valet, you can go right across the street to a very nice, clean modern garage for less than half the price. It is the same place the valet will park your car.