Seaport Village, San Diego

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The Seaport Village is a great place for shopping, dining entertainment and people watching right at the waterfront of San Diego Harbor.

There is just so many options for shopping from local stores to bigger chain stores such a Crazy Shirt and Del Sol. We enjoyed wandering through the shops and checking out the wares. There were so many interesting shops selling local items and nautical themed products; perfect for a waterfront shop.

Hungry? No problem here. There are plenty of waterfron restaurants for sit down meals as well as casual take away food. My wife and I enjoyed a tasty seafood lunch at the Edgewater Grill. The restaurant also boasts some incredible water views and large Margaritas. I have also dined at Buster's which has some tasty breakfast and lunch items, also with a water view.

There are also various artist selling their wares along the waters edge and a few musicians playing some tunes. This is a fun spot to visit in San Diego for fun, food, shopping and a casual vibe.

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Staying in downtown San Diego? Looking for a place to relax, stroll by shops, walk the boardwalk along the San Diego Bay, have a bite to eat, listen to some music, or ride a 1895 Loof hand carved carousel? Many questions with one answer. Seaport Village should be your destination.

Seaport Village is a facsimile of an early harbor side setting that has the tourists coming in droves to walk the boardwalk to view the bay or have a power lunch in one of the 4 fine dining restaurants after a morning at the Convention Center. Many locals and tourists alike take a ride on the beautiful original carousel. Some come for the unique shops to find that gift for the folks back home. Even if you do any or all of this or none at all, you have a place to relax on a bench watching a fountain or the bay or maybe even just be a people watcher. Seaport Village has it all and it is easy to get to and easy to park.

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Seaport Village was developed many years ago, one of the first efforts to revitalize the San Diego downtown area. Some San Diegians think /thought of this as a tourist trap, but there is so much to see and do. I disagree. Many of the shops offer very unique items, not usually found in shops around town, that I can't see this as a tourist trap at all.

There are three sections and each are designed in historical California styles, Old Monterey, Victorian San Francisco and traditional Mexico. Housed in these lovely little buildings are more than 50 shops, many of them offfer one-of-a-kind items that aren't found in regular stores. There are almost twenty places to choose to have a meal ranging from inexpensive to expensive, even a place to buy the makings for a picnic lunch at the Embarcadero

A couple of really nice hotels have grown up next to Seaport Village. The Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, which has a fantastic lounge on the 40th floor offering a view of the city and bay that is awesome and well worth the price of a drink!

The Marriot Hotel is just next to the San Diego Convention Center and has it's own marina. These hotels can be pretty expensive if you're not coming here on business with all hotel expenses paid, but their restaurants and lounges are open to the public and worth a visit.

Just behind Seaport Village is the Embarcadero Marina Park North. It is a great park for flying kites, having a picnic along the bay or just taking a stroll. Also, from this park, on summer evenings you can hear the San Diego Summer Pops playing wonderful music on the south side of the Embarcadero marina.

So, no matter your budget, Seaport Village has something to offer, and I haven't even mentioned free entertainment! I suggest, if you are planning a trip here to look at Seaport's Web page. If you give your e-mail address they will let you know of any events that might be planned during your stay and also offer coupons sometimes.

More photos can be seen on my Seaport Village travelogue.

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Seaport Village is a nice place for a leisure stroll and great time to spend a day with picnic at the Embarcadero park too. Children also can learn to fly kite and ride the carousel as well. There are lots of restaurants and shops over here but i think that the goods here are more expensive compare to other place. You can also hire a pedi-cab if you're too tired of walking or maybe hop a cruise ship for an hour or two. The parking here is free for 2 hours if you buy something from the stores and make sure you ask them to validate the ticket for you.

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Seaport Village is amazing, whether you live in San Diego or are visiting! I've lived in San Diego basically all my life and Seaport Village is one place I've never gotten tired of. There's an amazing fudge factory and a great hot dog place, beautiful boats, bike rentals, animals, people, and plenty of fun activities. Go waterskiing or watch boats lit up with lights during the Holiday Of Lights boat parade! And who doesn't love eating? What about perfect moments for photography? And there's always some kind of wedding or Quinceañera to be a witness of. I'd say Seaport Village is my favorite tourist attraction here! :D

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A fun outing with a great view of the San Diego Bay is to visit San Diego's Seaport Village. We found it was clean and very inviting when we went there on Easter Weekend this year, it is a central point near Harbor Drive by our hotel downtown and is outdoors. There are shops that sell retail items that are quite unique and the area has something for every age group. The food courts are of a wide variety of tastes,from full course meals in restaurant dining serving Italian, Greek and other varieties of ethnic food and then there's cafe/deli sandwich shops having there many different sandwich on the menus, and then other desert/candy shops to top it all off. It was 5 star food there we fully enjoyed. The view across the bay is spectacular and picture perfect for the first time and returning tourists. Seeing boaters under full sails and catching the coastal breezes on a sunny afternoon is worth the trip by itself. A small park to stretch out your toes in the grass, It's doesn't really look like a tourist attraction, like going to the San Diego Zoo or Sea World. It's a relaxing place for everybody. Anyone can get there easy enough by car with public parking available or by public transportation from any hotel in town.
On the east side of the village is an old fashioned type gazebo where they have live music. There groups of friends, families and tourists gather and have small parties around the bandstand and patron the surrounding eateries. On this weekend The Tommy Budd Band was playing, and the the cobble stone design around this bandstand was filled with people of all ages dancing and singing with the band. So many families had taken up space either at the tables around the gazebo or were standing and dancing around the structure when suddenly the ground started to shake, and many people in that area being startled from this looked at first pretty confused and worried.(we're from California ourselves so we figured that it might be a quake.) Little kids kept on dancing and falling and having fun not knowing what the shaking was about and it looked like they thought it was a part of all the festivity as parents ran to gather the toddlers and kiddies up. But as the shaking came stronger the band leader Tommy Budd hollered out from his drums that it was OK and that the earthquake would pass- he said,"don't panic.. and stay here in the food court ...you're in a safe place", while reassuring us that we were in the best place to ride out the tremor. When the shaking stopped he hollered on the microphone to us if we were alright and the bunches of people still there(almost everybody stayed) yelled out "yeah". We all laughed and when the band started playing again they played I Feel the Earth Move which got everyone to laugh and dance again. It was a lot of fun with fun people and great musicians in that band!
Not to worry, earthquakes in San Diego least of all in the downtown area and by the bay are light weight ones, and very seldom even felt. "Tremors" are very infrequent statistically in San Diego and when they come, the worst are far to the east and northeast. So a little shaking there won't scare me and my family away from this great tourist spot. As somewhat weird as that was on that day, that band leader really took command of that situation. Thanks goes out to that quick thinking local entertainer Tommy Budd. Check out Seaport Village when you get a chance.
It's a great place to go in San Diego!

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This lovley carousel was built by famed Charles I.D.Loof in 1895 which was hand-carved and features 54 animals such as dragon, giraffe, teddy bear, lion and two horse-drawn chariots. Cost: $2 a ride. My grand nephew Shamus enjoyed it along with his Granny.

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I have not been here for probably over ten years. It was wonderful to roam among a huge selections of shops and restaurants. What is so unique about this area is it was once Punta de los Muertos of 1782 (Point of the Dead) where the Spanish buried those who had died of scurvy, it was a rail yard and then a landfill. Now a beautiful village for many to enjoy.

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Seaport Village is beautiful during the day as well as at night. It is adjacent to Embarcadero Park North and a easy walking distance from many of the hotels downtown. Seaport Village has cobblestone pathways that lead you around the village of shops, restaurants and San Diego bay. For the kids there is a 1895 Antique carousel within the village and horse drawn carriage rides.

Seaport Village is mostly made of little specialty shops. It is not really a place to go for souvenirs because you can get them for much cheaper elsewhere in San Diego. They have quite a bit of shopping for little knick-knacks and stuff. If you are interested in the stuff they sell, then it is a lot of fun. But for the most part, it isn't worth your time. Check the website to see what stores they have. It would be more worth it to spend your time doing something else. They have some free music as you are shopping and some attractions and stuff for kids (face painting and a carousel). It is free to get in, but you have to pay to park. You can get validate if you buy something. They are right on the water, so it is pretty nice during the day and can be a bit breezy at night.